GOP war on women

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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).




http://pol.moveon.org/waronwomen/
 
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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).




http://pol.moveon.org/waronwomen/
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WOW!!!!!! Thanks for the info and the link, slasher. I can use it elsewhere.
 
President Obama nominated the first Latina as a Supreme Court Justice.


On the other hand, Mitt Romney stated he would not support Sonia Sotomayor as a justice of the Supreme Court even though in 1991, she was nominated to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by President George H.W. Bush.


According to the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia University, Janine Balekdjian stated: “President Obama has made other concrete steps for the advancement of women, like signing the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay act and appointing Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court.”


Indeed the Republican Party has a woman problem and it extends into the Latina community. Dr. Caroline Heldman, an Associate Professor of Politics at Occidental College and political commentator for Fox News identifies the problem further as she digs deeper into Conservative talking heads like Rush Limbaugh.


According to Heldman, Limbaugh has spent two decades attacking feminists, female political leaders, professional women, women who speak out, and women’s gains more generally.


This formula makes his almost exclusively older, white, male audience feel more powerful in a world where changing gender roles have challenged non-meritorious power structures that benefit them.


Mitt Romney and Rush Limbaugh share the same philosophy because both have publicly stated their opposition toward a Latina justice that holds one of the highest positions in the land.


Coincidentally enough, the last act of Mel Martinez as U.S. Senator was voting as one of only nine Republicans in support Sotomayor for SCOTUS. He resigned the next morning.


Will the Republican Party take us two steps backward as Latina leadership emerges?


We believe so.


Recently, the Republican Governor Dave Heineman has promised to veto the Nebraska bill (LB599).


LB599 provides prenatal coverage to low-income women, many of them undocumented, who lost Medicaid coverage for prenatal care in 2010.


Civil Rights and immigration attorney, Shirl Mora James recently exposed the Republican Governor of Nebraska with regard to his pro life hypocrisy. Shirl believes in helping ALL women who choose to keep their babies while ensuring appropriate prenatal care despite their immigration status.


Apparently the Governor of Nebraska thinks it is safe to pick on undocumented women who choose to keep their babies since he really does not have to worry about their votes in the immediate sense– and this seems to be the path Republicans are now willing to embrace.


According to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University:


“… voter turnout rates for women have equaled or exceeded voter turnout rates for men. Women, who constitute more than half the population, have cast between four and seven million more votes than men in recent elections. In every presidential election since 1980, the proportion [of] female adults who voted has exceeded the proportion of made adults who voted …”


There is a strong sense of matriarchy within the Mexican-American culture, and Latinas will ‘wise up’ during the 2012 elections when we evaluate how politicians treat women of Latin descent.


One thing is for certain — we cannot gamble our vote away on “multiple-choice” Mitt.


Why should women support him if he would have opposed a ‘wise Latina’ like Sotomayor?


In conclusion, male chauvinism is a thing of the past and it is high time men take note in the political arena.


Women can do much more than cook and clean … we can politically educate ourselves, too, and base our voting behavior on the past history of those who want to be entrusted as our elected officials.



http://tucsoncitizen.com/hispanic-p...omney-and-the-republican-war-on-latina-women/
 
Sandra Day O'Connor (born March 26, 1930) is an American jurist who was the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States. She served as an Associate Justice from 1981 until her retirement from the Court in 2006. O'Connor was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981.[1] In the latter years of her tenure, she was regarded as having the swing vote in many cases.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Day_O'Connor

another liberal fail

btw...this thread is a duplicate.
 
:palm: How is it that this idiot thinks that something that happened 30 years ago is relevant to the stance and actions of today's GOP, most of whom would consider Reagan a socialist? What a hacktacular idiot.
 
Gatorman said:
WOW!!!!!! Thanks for the info and the link, slasher. I can use it elsewhere.
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Poor women seeking healthcare and women seeking abortions and birth control may seem powerless, but they are not.

I can assure you that women all over the country are paying close attention to the GOP "War on Women."

Women know that the GOP victory in 2010, especially on the state level, was supposed to be about jobs, the economy, and containing government overreach.

Instead, that GOP victory has translated into the worst assault on women's rights in a generation.

Expect these women, who have already caused hemorrhaging in Mitt Romney's support amongst swing-state voters, to induce electoral catastrophe for the GOP in November.


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...204090410debate.women.baapr11,0,4721893.story
 
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