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 Support Pro-choice Candidates this November!

Planned Parenthood Action Committee of New Jersey is pleased to announce our endorsement of Governor Jon Corzine and Senator Loretta Weinberg. 
 
Here are some reasons why we support the Corzine/Weinberg ticket this November:

• Governor Corzine and Senator Weinberg have both received a 100% rating from the Planned Parenthood Action Committee of New Jersey. 
• Governor Corzine has advocated for common-sense prevention measures to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies.  
• Governor Corzine and Senator Weinberg support affordable quality health care, including family planning services, breast cancer screenings, and other preventive health care that Planned Parenthood provides. 
• Governor Corzine and Senator Weinberg support a woman's right to choose. 
• Senator Weinberg wrote New Jersey’s law that requires insurance companies to cover prescription birth control as they do any other prescription drugs.  
• Senator Weinberg provided strong leadership in passing a law requiring emergency rooms provide information and access to emergency contraception for survivors of sexual assault. 
• Governor Corzine signed a law ensuring that women can get prescriptions filled for basic birth control.  
• Governor Corzine and Senator Weinberg support age appropriate, medically accurate, comprehensive sexuality education to keep our young people healthy and safe, and Governor Corzine was one of the first of many Governors to reject the dangerous Bush Administration’s abstinence only policies.

“Gov. Corzine is a strong and passionate advocate for women’s health and women’s rights. As Governor he has worked to improve access to quality health care for women, support and protect a woman’s right to choose, and stood up for women and families across New Jersey,” said Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
 
In contrast, Chris Christie unequivocally opposes a woman’s right to choose and supports dangerous policies that threaten women’s health care.  Christie’s plans to offer ‘mandate free’ and out of state health insurance policies would allow insurers to refuse to cover prescription contraceptives and refuse to cover certain breast cancer screenings. Earlier this year, Christie touted his allegiances to anti-choice extremists including Congressman Chris Smith who has sponsored 22 different bills that would make basic birth control illegal.  Read the complete press release.

Further down the ballot, Planned Parenthood Action Committee’s endorsed candidates include:

Read the complete press release.

Upcoming events!

We will be phonebanking and canvassing in communities throughout New Jersey in the coming days and weeks.  There will be phonebanking in Mercer County on October 19th and 21st and in Middlesex County on October 28th.  And there are door-to-door canvasses being planned in Hunterdon and Bergen counties.  Please reach out to Jackie at jackie.cornell@ppfa.org to get more details or to express interest in attending or hosting an event.

Register to Vote and Vote-By-Mail

Did you know that you can now vote-by-mail in all elections?  Get that form or the regular voter registration form.

The Planned Parenthood Action Committee of New Jersey is an independent non-partisan organization formed as the statewide political arm of the Planned Parenthood Affiliates of New Jersey.  Paid for by Planned Parenthood Action Committee of New Jersey, PO Box 512, Trenton, NJ 08608. This expenditure was not made with the cooperation or prior consent of, or in consultation with, or at the request or suggestion of, any candidate, or person or committee acting on behalf of the candidate.