NYT: The Campaign Against Women

[babylonsister]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/20/opinion/sunday/the-attack-on-women-is-real.html?_r=1

The Campaign Against Women
Published: May 19, 2012


Despite the persistent gender gap in opinion polls and mounting criticism of their hostility to women’s rights, Republicans are not backing off their assault on women’s equality and well-being. New laws in some states could mean a death sentence for a pregnant woman who suffers a life-threatening condition. But the attack goes well beyond abortion, into birth control, access to health care, equal pay and domestic violence.

Republicans seem immune to criticism. In an angry speech last month, John Boehner, the House speaker, said claims that his party was damaging the welfare of women were “entirely created” by Democrats. Earlier, the Republican National Committee chairman, Reince Priebus, sneered that any suggestion of a G.O.P. “war on women” was as big a fiction as a “war on caterpillars.”

But just last Wednesday, Mr. Boehner refuted his own argument by ramming through the House a bill that seriously weakens the Violence Against Women Act. That followed the Republican push in Virginia and elsewhere to require medically unnecessary and physically invasive sonograms before an abortion, and Senate Republicans’ persistent blocking of a measure to better address the entrenched problem of sex-based wage discrimination.

On Capitol Hill and in state legislatures, Republicans are attacking women’s rights in four broad areas.

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Whether this pattern of disturbing developments constitutes a war on women is a political argument. That women’s rights and health are casualties of Republican policy is indisputable.

[niyad]

1. k and r--thank you for posting this.

"Whether this pattern of disturbing developments constitutes a war on women is a political argument."

No, it is not a "political argument", it is a reality.

[RainDog]

2. k&r n/t

[HockeyMom]

3. Women will die as result of Arizona's Gag Law

http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/arizona-senate-passes-bill-allowing-doctors-not-to-inform-women-of-prenatal-issues-to-prevent-aborti/question-2587671/?page=4

No viable baby has every been delivered from a fallopian tube, but if a doctor doesn't inform a woman she has this condition, she most certainly can die. Pregnant women don't have to the right of self-defense? I guess that only applies to people with guns in Arizona, and Florida.

[napkinz]

4. just keep reminding Americans who is now LEADING the war

this guy!






(posted more at http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002708430)

[spanone]

5. k&r...