The Planned Parenthood Action Fund (PPAF) continued its campaign against Mitt Romney’s presidential bid by holding a pre-debate rally in Denver October 2.
Mitt Romney and President Obama will take part in their first one-on-one presidential debate Wednesday, October 3, in Denver.
The organization, which has been advertising in the state in the lead up to the debate, hosted the rally at the Auraria Campus in downtown Denver with local officials, such as Senator Michael Bennet and Rep. Diana DeGette, university students, and PPAF president Cecile Richards.
About 200 attended the rally, according to a PPAF spokesman.
The centerpiece of the health organization’s current Colorado push is highlighting the group's national “Ask Mitt” online campaign in which participants were asked to submit questions for Mitt Romney via online and Twitter and then vote on their favorites, such as, “When are you going to address the fact that family planning is an economic issue?”
PPAF is pressing Romney on his stance on abortion, health care, funding for its health care arm, Planned Parenthood, and women’s rights in general.
“We’ve had thousands of women and men write in questions that they’d like to have Mr. Romney answer,” explained Richards on MSNBC Wednesday. “What is his plan for women? It seems to us he really is committed to rolling back the clock on women’s access to health care.”
Online, mobile, and TV advertising promoted the effort. “While you’re here in Colorado, I hope you’ll answer a few questions,” begins the TV ad.
The organization, which is the political arm of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, endorsed President Obama for re-election earlier this year.
Obama leads Romney 50% to 45% among likely voters in Colorado, according to a September 20 NBC News/Marist/Wall Street Journal poll.
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The GOP continues on with its campaign of treat women like doormats. The GOP's total move to the intolerant hard right on abortion, family planning, birth control, and women's reproductive health is something out of the 19th century. No thinking feeling man who cares about the women in his life from his mother, wife, girlfriend, daughter, of female bosses or coworkers can be against women's reproductive health care rights. All birth control and family planning programs must be paid for by the state or mandated to be paid for by insurance companies. After all, in this day and age most women work and pay premiums into those insurance programs. So the point is that women earn this right. I thought the GOP was supposed to be about "jobs, jobs, and more jobs?" I must have missed something along the way from the GOP. The GOP is all about bullying women and treating them like doormats in a patriarchal society that no longer exists in 21st century America.