Republican War on Women

[Anonymous]

http://pol.moveon.org/waronwomen/?rc=fb

More proof that the R's only give a shit about babies when they are in utero.

[Anonymous]

Anybody who believes in destroying a helpless embryo in the womb in order to avoid the inconvenience of raising a child would certainly have a slave and consider it 3/5 of a human to avoid working a plantation without machinery.

[Anonymous]

well I don't know about that PP, but the list was so juvenile that it is hard to be taken seriously.

[Anonymous]

The List:

1) Republicans not only want to reduce women's access to abortion care, they're actually trying to redefine rape. After a major backlash, they promised to stop. But they haven't yet. Shocker.
2) A state legislator in Georgia wants to change the legal term for victims of rape, stalking, and domestic violence to "accuser." But victims of other less gendered crimes, like burglary, would remain "victims."
3) In South Dakota, Republicans proposed a bill that could make it legal to murder a doctor who provides abortion care. (Yep, for real.)
4) Republicans want to cut nearly a billion dollars of food and other aid to low-income pregnant women, mothers, babies, and kids.
5) In Congress, Republicans have a bill that would let hospitals allow a woman to die rather than perform an abortion necessary to save her life.

6) Maryland Republicans ended all county money for a low-income kids' preschool program. Why? No need, they said. Women should really be home with the kids, not out working.

7) And at the federal level, Republicans want to cut that same program, Head Start, by $1 billion. That means over 200,000 kids could lose their spots in preschool.
8) Two-thirds of the elderly poor are women, and Republicans are taking aim at them too. A spending bill would cut funding for employment services, meals, and housing for senior citizens.
9) Congress just voted for a Republican amendment to cut all federal funding from Planned Parenthood health centers, one of the most trusted providers of basic health care and family planning in our country.
10) And if that wasn't enough, Republicans are pushing to eliminate all funds for the only federal family planning program. (For humans. But Republican Dan Burton has a bill to provide contraception for wild horses. You can't make this stuff up).

[Anonymous]

I don't see what's juvenile about this list. The first one about some R's trying to redefine rape is true and was absolutely shocking and horrifying.
3 - this is probably true since it would be so easy to verify if there was no such bill. Even if you think abortion's wrong, isn't the motto "pro life"? How does that square w/ taking things into your own hands to kill a doctor?
4 - Rs are trying to cut food stamps and WIC. true.
5 - also true and insane that even religious institutions can choose the baby over the mother when her life is at stake.
7 - Yes, Rs want to cut Head Start. true.
8 - don't know about this one and frankly federal spending is slanted far too much to the elderly so if they are cutting funds that go only to elderly, I'd support that.
9 / 10 - Of course Rs are trying to cut Planned Parenthood funding.

So - again, what's "juvenile" about this list that sure seems pretty accurate?

[Anonymous]

we are $14trillion in debt. a lot of things are going to be cut. that does not equal declaring war on women.

as for abortion, just as many women are against abortion as support it. so that tells me it is a partisan / political issue, not more war on women.

[Anonymous]

Re: three, there is no such bill. The South Dakota bill is a minor revision to the self-defense laws in that state making it more explicit (rather than implicit) that a woman or third party can use deadly force responding an assault that could kill her fetus. That is probably the better reading of the law as it currently stands, anyway, but I'm generally sympathetic to self-defense and can see why someone would want to make that change.

The pro-abortion/pro-choice movement doesn't like it, not because it authorizes the murder of abortion doctors -- I mean, seriously? What do you think of pro-lifers that you think something that really does that could get any political traction anywhere? -- but because it recognizes that a fetus is not the moral equivalent of an appendix. It is not an unusual result under state law to allow deadly force to repel an attack that might kill a fetus, and those state laws generally make it clear that abortion is not covered by that scenario.

[Anonymous]

What do you think of pro-lifers that you think something that really does that could get any political traction anywhere?

I think they are the ones trying to redefine rape and they are the ones who lionize the nutso's who have shot abortion doctors in the past.

[Anonymous]

Moveon.org will contain nothing postitive about any Republican initiative.