At HuffPo Chicago (HuffPo is still on the shit list)
In my 30 years in Illinois politics, I have never seen a nominee for Governor who is more anti-woman and more anti-family than Bill Brady. Bill Brady is not your garden-variety downstate conservative. He is an extreme right-wing candidate and an activist leader in the fight to make abortion illegal, even in the case of rape or incest. He aims to set back women’s rights not just one generation, but several generations.
Where does Bill Brady stand on women’s issues?
• Brady supports a law in Illinois to ban abortion, even in cases of rape or incest.
• Brady supports amending the U.S. Constitution to make abortion illegal with no exceptions.
• Brady supports a law allowing pharmacists to refuse to fill prescriptions based on moral or religious objections, denying patients medicine for birth control, emergency contraception, HIV medications, anti-depressants for post-partum-depression, etc.
• Brady was one of only two legislators to vote against stopping “Drive-Thru Deliveries,” when HMOs were throwing women out of hospitals, against their doctors’ advice, less than 24 hours after delivering a baby.
• Brady was one of only four legislators to vote against the voluntary check-off on the Illinois income tax form for cervical and breast cancer research.
• Brady voted against requiring insurance companies to pay for prescription contraceptive drugs, even when these same companies cover male enhancement drugs.
• Brady has voted against Family Medical Leave, equal pay for equal work for women, and stem cell research.
Brady likes to talk about limited government and small government. Is outlawing abortion for a rape victim, or any woman, limited government intrusion? Is regulating our personal lives, limiting our access to birth control (or to any medication), and dictating under what circumstances we have children limited government? Not in my book, Senator Brady.
Personal PAC is running great commercials as well:
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