Subject: Fwd: WOMEN'S HEALTH WEEK: Ayotte Voted to Make Contraception More Expensive, Introduced Sham Bill That Would Shift Costs Onto Women
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From: Melissa Miller <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Date: May 10, 2016 at 11:22:57 AM EDT
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Subject: WOMEN'S HEALTH WEEK: Ayotte Voted to Make Contraception More Expensive, Introduced Sham Bill That Would Shift Costs Onto Women
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May 10, 2016
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WOMEN'S HEALTH WEEK: Kelly Ayotte Voted to Make Contraception More Expensive & Difficult to Access, Introduced Sham Bill That Would Shift Costs Onto Women

Concord, N.H. -- Today, the New Hampshire Democratic Party continued its Women’s Health Week efforts to hold Kelly Ayotte accountable for her record of voting to make it more difficult and expensive for women to access the healthcare they need. Today’s reason why Kelly Ayotte is wrong on women’s health: her repeated votes to take away insurance covering contraception without a copay for tens of thousands of Granite State women and the sham bill she introduced to cover her tracks that would actually shift the costs of contraception onto women.

Ayotte has voted repeatedly to repeal the Affordable Care Act which mandates that insurance companies cover all FDA-approved methods of contraception prescribed by a doctor at no additional cost to the patient and has expanded this coverage to thousands of women here in the Granite State through the state's successful bipartisan Medicaid Expansion.

To cover her tracks, Ayotte introduced a sham contraception bill opposed by the American Congress of OB-GYNs<http://nhdp.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=99da013f2bd49930e82805c66&id=8c8680cedb&e=aac58c81e5> because it would actually make birth control MORE expensive for women, a cost that would be “prohibitive” for some. Women’s health experts have said that her bill is a “sham and an insult to women<http://nhdp.us6.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=99da013f2bd49930e82805c66&id=62b4b108e9&e=aac58c81e5>,” and “specifically designed to deceive voters<http://nhdp.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=99da013f2bd49930e82805c66&id=3f0bd197e8&e=aac58c81e5>.”

When taken together, Ayotte's opposition to the Affordable Care Act and sham contraception bill would limit women's birth control choices and increase their out of pocket costs.

“Kelly Ayotte has voted repeatedly to make birth control more expensive and difficult to access, while introducing a sham measure that would increase our out of pocket costs,” said New Hampshire Democratic Party Press Secretary Melissa Miller. “New Hampshire women deserve a Senator who will fight to enhance access to a range of affordable contraception options, not one like Kelly Ayotte who works to undermine and limit that access.”

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