Oklahoma Lawmaker Blasts GOP’s War On Women: ‘What Happened To The Republican Party that I Joined?’

[Tx4obama]

Oklahoma Lawmaker Blasts GOP’s War On Women: ‘What Happened To The Republican Party That I Joined?’

In an op-ed published on Wednesday, an Oklahoma Republican sharply criticizes his fellow party members for focusing on enacting unnecessary legislation to limit women’s access to abortion and contraception. “What happened to the Republican Party that I joined?” state Rep. Doug Cox (R) wonders, pointing out that the mounting pile of reproductive restrictions represents a government intrusion into women’s personal lives.

Cox, who is a practicing physician, writes that the GOP-led pushes to eliminate women’s health resources don’t work in the “real world,” as the U.S. continues to face high rates of unintended teen pregnancy. Instead of expanding access to contraception to help address that reality, his fellow Republicans are working to do the opposite — pushing to eliminate Medicaid coverage for Plan B and allow pharmacists to refuse to fill birth control prescriptions for any reason. The state lawmaker doesn’t believe those legislative priorities reflect the fundamental issues at the heart of the Republican Party:

What happened to the Republican Party that I joined? The party where conservative presidential candidate Barry Goldwater felt women should have the right to control their own destiny? The party where President Ronald Reagan said a poor person showing up in the emergency room deserved needed treatment regardless of ability to pay? What happened to the Republican Party that felt government should not overregulate people until (as we say in Oklahoma) “you have walked a mile in their moccasins”? (...)

What happened to the Republican Party that felt that the government has no business being in an exam room, standing between me and my patient? Where did the party go that felt some decisions in a woman’s life should be made not by legislators and government, but rather by the women, her conscience, her doctor and her God?

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Full article here: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/05/29/2072531/oklahoma-republican-blasts-war-women/

[rurallib]

1. What happened? They are now saying out loud what they used to say

behind closed doors and under rocks.
Nothing really happened. They just fooled your ass, that is all
They lied and you believed.

[DavidDvorkin]

4. Yes. Well said.

[msongs]

2. she can join the center right democrats and be at home again nt

[Rain Mcloud]

3. Growing teen pregnancy is what they want!

When that study was released which stated that white people would be a minority in 50 years they went ape shit kookoo for cocoa puffs bananas.

All that party ideology was just to attract the evangelicals and the big money players so they could buy and bamboozle their way to power.
Every grandmother in the land was donating her egg money to keep America pure as edelweiss.
Now that the wheels are coming off the party Conestoga,their mask is slipping and the pure evil hatred is starting to show.
Here is a famous okie who took her inspiration form Phylis Schaffly and was the template for Palin and Bachman:

[RussBLib]

5. I think we know WHAT happened to the Republican Party

I think we know WHAT happened to the Republican Party. They became radical women-hating, immigrant-hating, gay-hating extremists.

The question is WHY this happened. What Republicans let it happen?