This Wednesday, June 9, our state legislators are voting at a Constitutional Convention on an amendment that can bring $2 billion in revenue to public schools and transportation! Your lawmakers need to hear from you, now.
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Cape Cod Women for Change has joined the newly formed Indivisible Mass Coalition’s (IMC) Intersectional Women’s Rights Action Team of state-wide organizations. We are beginning our efforts by launching our Summer of Re-SISTERS with a focus on Women and Labor!
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The terrorist attack at our Capitol was abhorrent. That sacred building was damaged in the rampage, a police officer was killed and others injured. Members of Congress’ lives were threatened and endangered. The work of our Government was interrupted. What a horrific day.
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This isn’t the ROE Act we started with January 2019, but it’s a start, and it will protect services if/when ROE is chipped away or overturned by the current SCOTUS. Please take this action first thing Monday morning! Grab a coffee and click to send or click to call!
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Our governor is putting women’s rights at risk, despite the overwhelming support of our legislature and the will of the majority in Massachusetts. If you’ve been following the updates to our posts you know his actions have been swift, and clever. Our legislature MUST PASS ABORTION PROTECTIONS FOR WOMEN. We know that SCOTUS will either overturn Roe v. Wade, or at least chip away at it’s protections.
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Thanks to the tireless efforts of supporters like you, the House is expected to vote in the next few days on a version of the ROE Act during their budget debate.
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For almost two years now, we have been supporting and asking you to help advocate for, the ROE Act. We joined a coalition of organizations state-wide and began supporting the act before it was official filed in January 2018. We all, you included, have been contacting committee leaders as it made its way through the legislative process, and our legislators when the time came.
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Thanks to the tireless efforts of supporters like you, the House is expected to vote in the next few days on a version of the ROE Act during their budget debate.
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Although Josh Mason didn’t get the numbers we hoped for, the other two candidates we endorsed will be sworn in as state legislators representing us on Beacon Hill.
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“Women’s health should be decided and controlled by women, not by legislation.” Kipp Diggs Our leadership team met with Kip Diggs (via Zoom) and we are excited to endorse Kip Diggs for State Representative for 2nd Barnstable District. Kip will be an ally for women and families, and understands and supports the issues important to us. On The Roe Act
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Photo: Our bus trip to the State House in January 2020, meeting with Senator Cyr “The Roe Act is about continuing to make sure that we safeguard a woman’s ability to access reproductive health care and a woman’s right to choose in an increasingly hostile federal environment. We want to make it clear that we will continue to protect these
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In the 1st Barnstable District, we have the opportunity to elect a candidate who fully supports women’s rights and the legislation we have been advocating for during this legislative session. Josh Mason is fully committed to supporting women’s reproductive rights and the legislation we have been advocating on Beacon Hill. Cape Cod Women for Change endorses his candidacy. “Our community
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Make Roe v. Wade a local election issue! If your state is considering legislation to protect abortion-care rights, or if your state has been passing legislation designed to impede access to abortion-care, ask your state candidates what their positions are.
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The Massachusetts ROE Act has been stalled in the Joint Judicial Committee. The MA Catholic leadership has been urging their congregations to contact legislators to voice opposition, and our legislators have been receiving those messages. We ask each of you to contact your state legislators to insist this bill be moved out of committee and onto the floor of the legislature for a vote. The current legislative session continues, and despite that it’s “election season” we must insist the ROE Act is PASSED now.
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The MA Roe Act, what it is, and why it is so important now -UPDATE-
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The ROE Act Countdown! WE NEED YOU TO TAKE ACTION! Everything you need is here. Please share this with anyone who might help! It’s time to Pass the ROE Act! There are only 42 days for the Massachusetts ROE Act to be passed out of the Committee and onto the floor for a vote! Meanwhile, at the national level, the
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You can take action this holiday season! While we hang wreaths and lights, light candles and wrap gifts, the MA Legislature is on a long holiday break and the ROE Act still sits in the Joint Judiciary Comm.
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The MA Roe Act, what it is, and why it is so important now -UPDATE-
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Did you get a postcard like this? Did you contact your state Rep? Please let us know how your rep responded:
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UPDATE: The committee will take testimony until next Monday, June 24.
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