Gloria Feldt is the author of No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, a keynote speaker and commentator, and former president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

Staying home from the polls or pulling the lever for a Republican out of anger at the Democrats is simply self-punishment, says Gloria Feldt, author of No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power. Instead, progressive women must take action Tuesday.

Like "death panels," the right-wing's insistence that Obamacare would bankroll abortions is just a means to an end—derailing health-care reform.