What Cosmo and Others are Saying About Planned Parenthood Action Fund’s Political Website
For Immediate Release: May 11, 2012
Women are Watching Has Broad Reach
This week, the Planned Parenthood Action Fund launched Women are Watching, its campaign and website to educate, engage, and activate supporters across the country for the 2012 elections.
Cosmo.com immediately dubbed Women are Watching, “The New Site Every Woman Needs to Visit.”
And women are watching. The launch of the website helped vault the number of supporters on Planned Parenthood Action Fund’s Facebook page way over the 200,000 mark.
Immediately following the resounding defeat of Mississippi’s “personhood” ballot initiative, Planned Parenthood Action Fund’s post had already received over 4,538 likes on Facebook, and more than 600 supporters shared it with their networks.
In short, Women are Watching is the new go-to site for women voters to get political information.
Here is a roundup of what influentials are saying and tweeting about Women are Watching:
WOMEN’S MAGAZINES:
COSMOPOLITAN: “THE NEW SITE EVERY WOMAN NEEDS TO VISIT”
Marie Claire: “With women's health under attack on many levels across America, Women Are Watching will give readers correct information about exactly what the candidates are saying, what legislation is in motion to take away women's health rights and give you ways to get involved.”
Jezebel: “Called ‘Women are Watching,’ it will emphasize women's role in voting and remind political candidates that their efforts to act like women's health is a bargaining chip will not go unnoticed.”
Popular Celebrities:
Judy Blume: Just signed my pledge to hold politicians accountable next year on women's health with @PPact. Join me! t.co/iBiDBS3i #Women2012
Julianne Moore: Take a look at this if u care about women's health. Sign the pledge t.co/6QzBmnLk. Get ready for election 2012 w/@PPact! #Women2012
Audra McDonald: Had enough? I'm standing with @PPAct to hold politicians accountable for their attacks on women's health. bit.ly/vgoQ5c#Women2012
Jessica Capshaw: Take a look at this if you care about women's health.Sign the pledge waw.li/rKQLGJ. Get ready for election 2012 w/@PPact! #Women2012”
Aisha Tyler: Care about women’s health? Politicians should too! Sign the pledge bit.ly/vgoQ5c. Get ready for election 2012 w/@PPact!#Women2012
Kate Walsh: Tw'eeps, care abt women’s health? U know I do + politicians should too! Sign the pledge + support @PPact! #Women2012t.co/c2H7NNeb
Newspapers from the State with the First-in-the-Nation Primary:
Concord Monitor: “A year before the general election, local women's rights activists, including Planned Parenthood, have joined Democratic efforts nationwide to label Mitt Romney an ‘extremist’ when it comes to women's reproductive rights.. . . To that end, Planned Parenthood's Action Fund has launched a new website, womenarewatching.com, to help women voters learn exactly where candidates stand on reproductive issues.”
Eagle-Tribune: “Planned Parenthood [Action Fund], meanwhile, said it has started the Women Are Watching campaign to keep an eye on the presidential and congressional contests.”
Reuters (New Hampshire): “Planned Parenthood [of Northern New England Action Fund] in New Hampshire is attacking U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney for his opposition to federal funding for family planning, a stance that could help decide the state's crucial Republican primary in January.”
Men (From Facebook):
Dan Ader Fathers of daughters are watching, too!
Pete Holste #...as are sons of mothers and husbands of wives. Choice—not chance! Health is a right.
Women are Watching is reaching women where they already are: online.
In this fast-paced digital world, information sharing is crucial. The Women are Watching website provides a digital arena for women to collect and share information about what politicians are saying and doing about women’s health issues.
Women are Watching taps into the growing social media energy and enthusiasm and provides a hub of information for supporters to share with their friends, and friends of friends. Already tens of thousands of women across the country are signing up and sharing that they are fed up with candidates playing politics with women’s health, are watching, and will be thinking, acting, and voting.