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The Best Signs From Yesterday's Rally For Women's Health
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Published Feb 27, 2011
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Not only did 6,000 people gather yesterday to rally for women's rights and to fight against legislation that would deny Planned Parenthood funding to perform services like breast exams and HIV testing for free, they made some pretty funny signs. Plenty wanted Boehner to say far away from their bodies, while one man simply wrote, "What's she said."
Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney said at the rally, "We are saying that women matter, our health care matters, our choices matter, and all of these steps that they're taking, they don't create one single job. They don't grow our economy. They are just rolling back the rights of women." Senator Schumer also said that he was positive the bill would not pass the Senate, and President Obama said that he would veto the bill if the "Pence amendment" remained.
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