Subject: RE: For Comms Approval: statement on Oklahoma abortion bill
From: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>
To: "Wei, Shu-Yen" <[email-masked]>, "Walker, Eric" <[email-masked]>, "Freundlich, Christina" <[email-masked]>, "Paustenbach, Mark" <[email-masked]>, "Walsh, Tom" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Jefferson, Deshundra" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 10:58:06 -0700

Let's see if Amy Dacey wants her name on the quote instead.

[SigDems]<http://www.democrats.org/>Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 - [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]> - @MiraLuisDC<https://www.twitter.com/MiraLuisDC>

From: Wei, Shu-Yen
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 1:37 PM
To: Walker, Eric; Miranda, Luis; Freundlich, Christina; Paustenbach, Mark; Walsh, Tom
Cc: Jefferson, Deshundra
Subject: RE: For Comms Approval: statement on Oklahoma abortion bill

The quote can come from Deshundra since it's her region

From: Walker, Eric
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 1:36 PM
To: Wei, Shu-Yen; Miranda, Luis; Freundlich, Christina; Paustenbach, Mark; Walsh, Tom
Subject: RE: For Comms Approval: statement on Oklahoma abortion bill

I like it.

From: Wei, Shu-Yen
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 1:35 PM
To: Miranda, Luis; Walker, Eric; Freundlich, Christina; Paustenbach, Mark; Walsh, Tom
Subject: For Comms Approval: statement on Oklahoma abortion bill

SL: Trump's Republican Party Has Already Started Punishing Women in Oklahoma

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In yet another effort to dismantle women's health, the Republican-led Oklahoma Legislature passed <http://abc7ny.com/politics/ok-lawmakers-pass-bill-making-performing-abortion-a-felony/1345901/> an unconstitutional bill, over the objections of their lone physician legislator, that would makeing performing an abortion a felony and prevent any doctors who have performed an abortion from practicing in the state.

This is just the latest example of Republican efforts across the country<https://www.guttmacher.org/article/2015/01/just-last-four-years-states-have-enacted-231-abortion-restrictions> to deny women their Constitutional right to a safe and legal abortion. The aggressive push comes as their presumptive presidential nominee, who has a decades-long record of denigrating women and promoting misogyny, closed out the Republican primaries saying that<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/30/donald-trump-there-has-to-be-some-form-of-punishment-for-women-who-get-abortions/> "there has to be some form of punishment" for women who get abortions and that he would take away<http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/05/18/donald_trump_supreme_court_picks_reactionary_republicans.html> a woman's right to make her own healthcare decisions.

"While Donald Trump talks about punishing women for abortions, but Republican legislatures in states like Oklahoma are actually already doing it. State lawmakers have enacted hundreds of abortion restrictions over the past few years, making it harder and more dangerous for women to obtain safe, legal and constitutional abortion and health services. No Republican politician should stand between a woman and her doctor, and Democrats will continue to stand against Republican politicians getting involved in stand up for the right of women to make their own a woman's personal health decisions." - Shu-Yen Wei, spokeswoman for the DNC

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