The organization specifically slams Rehberg for trying to end initiatives that modernize vaccines, cut tobacco use among children and fight childhood obesity.
The campaign today also released a letter Tester recently sent to the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Action Network. Tester told the organization he supports funding to ensure all women have access to lifesaving cancer screenings.
Cancer research and prevention efforts would suffer deep cuts under the controversial spending plan authored by Congressman Dennis Rehberg.
Rehberg’s plan would allow employers to deny women access to birth control through employer-provided health insurance plans for any reason.
Congressman Dennis Rehberg is doubling down on his efforts to deny screenings and other health care services to tens of thousands of Montana women.
That means for Foster Friess’ $2,500, Dennis Rehberg could buy 343,000 aspirins—enough for 91 percent of all women in Montana.
Rehberg’s belief that companies should be able to charge women more for health insurance dates back to his multiple attempts to repeal Montana’s non-gender insurance law as a state representative in the 1980s.
March is Women’s History month, an opportunity for Montanans to reflect on our state’s trailblazing history of enacting women’s suffrage and electing our nation’s first Congresswoman, Jeanette Rankin. At a time when women’s issues are front and center in policy debates and the news, we feel it’s important to make Congressman Dennis Rehberg’s record on […]