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Originally Posted by Grifter
So one state rep files a bill for publicity and you view that as a war on women by the right. Come on dude really?
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No Grif, of course not, it's just one of a long history of the republican's regressive policies and attitudes toward immigrants, minorities, the poor and women. Let me substantiate this for you so you get a more clear picture of what I'm talking about.
Concerning the war on women, this happened yesterday:
The Republican War on Women Continues
"Yesterday morning, House Republicans held a hearing on birth control and refused to include even one woman on the panel. And in the Senate, GOP leaders are backing the Blunt Amendment, which would allow any employer to deny women basic contraception coverage for any reason. Once again, Republicans are proving that they are only interested in waging war on women."
This is a picture of the panel assembled by House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) for a hearing examining the Obama administration’s new regulation requiring employers and insurers to provide contraception coverage to their employees.
Darrell Issa refused to allow women brought to testify on an issue about women and it's absolutely egregious no matter how you cut it.
Here's another example, yesterday Rick Santorum's campaign financier, Foster Friees, was being interviewed by MSNBC Anchor Andrea Mitchell and said the following when asked about women's contraception
"Back in my days, they used Bayer aspirin for contraceptives," Friess said on MSNBC on Thursday, adding: "The gals put it between their knees, and it wasn't that costly."
Foster Friess, a major donor to the super PAC backing Rick Santorum, has said it was a joke about contraception but prompted outrage from women's groups.
And this:Earlier this month, a bill requiring women to receive an ultrasound before they can receive an abortion passed the Virginia senate, and it recently cleared a state house committee with an overwhelming majority.
The effect of this bill would be to force most women to undergo a stunningly invasive procedure for no medical reason whatsoever. “Because the great majority of abortions occur during the first 12 weeks, that means most women will be forced to have a transvaginal procedure, in which a probe is inserted into the vagina, and then moved around until an ultrasound image is produced.”
Here is a depiction of the procedure that women would be forced to endure under the Virginia bill:
Simply put, it is difficult to distinguish a law requiring women to be vaginally penetrated by a long metal object from state-sponsored rape. Worse, discussions among lawmakers leave little doubt that its supporters understood just what they were trying to write into law — they just didn’t care. As an unnamed lawmaker told a fellow Virginia delegate, a woman already consented to being “vaginally penetrated when they got pregnant.”
There are many others throughout the nation called "Personhood Amendments" and all of this is the result of the republican Tea Party fueled sweep in 2010 that took over many state government offices.
The Right Wings War On Women...
