Proof of the GOP War on Women. The United States of Misogyny

[sheshe2]

http://www.politicususa.com/proof-war-women-2

Conservatives like to pretend there is no war on women, so PoliticusUSA developed a running list of legislation to prove that there is indeed a war on women. The proof is in the policy, and policy trumps words.

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The New York Times relates that “Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington State, the top-ranking Republican woman in the House, was quoted by The Daily Beast last week as saying that Democrats were fabricating the ‘war on women’ to distract from real issues.” Read and decide for yourself if this war on women is imaginary. As Joan Walsh writes on AlterNet,

“Democrats didn’t make the GOP presidential field back “personhood” laws that would criminalize some forms of birth control. They didn’t force the newly elected House GOP to make defunding Planned Parenthood their first legislative goal. And they didn’t propose the Blunt Amendment that would have allowed employers to withhold health insurance coverage not only for contraception, but for any treatment they disapproved of…”

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The War on Women’s Reproductive Rights

Despite an electorate that is overwhelmingly pro-choice, there is no doubt that the GOP’s first goal is to deprive women of their reproductive rights and to frame that argument not as one of health but religion. It is in fact so important an issue to the GOP that out of some 40,000 laws of all types enacted in 2011, as RMuse wrote here recently, “there were nearly 1,000 bills in state legislatures to restrict a woman’s right to legal abortion services” (up from 950 in 2010). Alternet lists the 10 worst states in which to be a woman. The lone piece of good news was the unexpected sanity of Mississippi voters. Interestingly, the GOP is now trying to co-opt the War on Women for their own, accusing liberals of waging war on “pro-choice” women, or declaring that Obama is waging a war on women and that the Obama White House has been a hostile work environment. This is while Congress, already in 2012, has taken no less than eight votes against women – in just three months. It is frightening to think what the final toll might be by December 31.





Much more at the link.

You are voting in 2014 are you not? Please tell me you are. If you are a woman or know one or love one, then you should be voting in 2014.

[AuntPatsy]

1. What bothers me even more than The GOP framing such a personnel issue as nothing more

Than a political tool is any female knowingly aware of the true dangers of such a personnel attack on any and ALL females and echoing the current conservative highlighted memo when the men involved prove once again how of little consequence they view obviously any and all females lives...

[sheshe2]

2. Yes, AuntPatsy.

It bothers me too, actually it makes me as mad as hell! What woman stands up in congress and says this.

“Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington State, the top-ranking Republican woman in the House, was quoted by The Daily Beast last week as saying that Democrats were fabricating the ‘war on women’ to distract from real issues.”

The consequences of her mind speak are deadly for women.

[AuntPatsy]

4. I don't believe these women to have been brainwashed in any way, I feel they are lacking

In empathy, as close to being viewed as a psychopath as one can be...

[Kath1]

3. Thank you for that excellent post, she!

One of the best post I have seen on the issue. The GOP war on women is FOR REAL and needs to be taken SERIOUSLY!

The facts speak for themselves, as you have pointed out so well. Acess to safe and legal contraception and abortion services will be severely restricted or even outlawed if they have their way.

I don't know how any woman could vote Republican in 2014. I really don't!

I am really hoping that women in the "red" states, and those who love them, show up in numbers to prove that we say NO to the GOP anti-woman agenda!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

5. That's the same thing they said about blacks.

Herman Cain said that black people who vote Democratic are "brainwashed".
Now they're saying the same thing about women who vote Democratic.

Like members of (insert minority group here) can't understand the issues and need a rich white guy to explain it to them.

I've even heard men say that women only vote for the best-looking guy, and don't vote on the issues. That's how Warren G. Harding got elected in 1920, they say.




They just can't see it. Their words trap them.

[littlemissmartypants]

6. Bookmarked. Thanks, sheshe2. nt

[SunSeeker]

7. K & R

[blkmusclmachine]

8. Deeds, not words. And, yes, the Republicans hate womens rights/equality. DUH!

[Uncle Joe]

9. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, sheshe.

[freshwest]

10. K&R, but got to get some sleep. Great piece~

[etherealtruth]

11. k and R

[Mnemosyne]

12. K&R, because it really matters. nt

[smirkymonkey]

13. K&R! Thanks sheshe2!

[William769]

14. You know how I fell on this subject.

Thank you so much dor posting this sheshe.

[sheshe2]

15. I do, dear William.

IMHO, the world could use a lot more men like you.