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“We are going to be fully engaged on talking about the economy and how Mitt Romney is a job killer and in particular is a job killer for women.

“Women want reforms like those in our report and will reject politicians who call for austerity, a code word for cutting safety net programs like Social Security, which women rely on disproportionately…America can’t afford not to provide fair and adequate benefits because so many women are financially vulnerable.

NOW President Terry O’Neill was quoted in a POLITICO article about Paul Ryan stance on women’s issues: “I think he is very, very harshly anti-woman. And I think it’s important for women voters to really look at the disproportionate effect on women of the thing he takes the most credit for. He’s very proud of the Ryan budget. It slams women by privatizing Medicare. Ryan opposes equal pay for equal work. That is very specifically anti-woman.”

Women’s eNews Correspondent Sharon Johnson interviewed NOW President Terry O’Neill about NOW’s continued support for a single-payer health care system in the U.S.: “Advocates for women must work hard during the coming months to elect officials who will ensure that the goals of universal coverage and affordable health care are eventually achieved.”

Part 2 in a series by NOW President Terry O’Neill: “Instead of thinking responsibly about the women who would love to have health insurance if only they could afford it, the Romney-Ryan budget would send us back to where we were in the Bush era, except t…