TOP 16 Shocking Attacks from the Republican GOP' War on Women
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."
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
(11)Republican state lawmaker in West Virginia said on Thursday that while rape is horrible, it’s “beautiful” that a child could be produced in the attack. According to Huffington Post, Charleston Gazette reporter David Gutman was on the scene when Delegate Brian Kurcaba (R) said, “Obviously rape is awful,” but “What is beautiful is the child that could come from this.” Kurcaba made the remarks during a House of Delegates discussion of a law outlawing all abortions in the state after 20 weeks’ gestation. At 20 weeks, anti-choice activists and lawmakers allege, a fetus can feel pain and is therefore too viable to abort
(12) Scott Walker to Sign Ban on Abortions for Rape, Incest Potentially complicating his
2016 bid, the Wisconsin governor has said he will sign a 20-week abortion bill that includes no exemption for rape or incest.He signed legislation defunding Planned Parenthood in the Badger State and requiring that women seeking abortions get ultrasounds..
(13) Rick Santorum: Single Moms Need Politicians To ‘Kick Them In The Butt’ children having children is destroying the fabric of our country. If you want to close your eyes to it, if you don’t care about it, if you don’t want to solve it, if you want to continue the system, to let people stay and spiral—go ahead. Not with me.” Single mothers, Santorum asserted, needed politicians who weren’t afraid of “kicking them in the butt.” A month later, the evangelical Senate candidate told a crowd in Erie, PA that welfare reform wasn’t simply about cutting government spending, it was also a public safety issue, “What we have is moms raising children in single-parent households simply breeding more criminals.”
(14) Jeb Bush In 1995: Unwed Mothers Should Be Publicly Shamed,
Public shaming would be an effective way to regulate the “irresponsible behavior” of unwed mothers, misbehaving teenagers and welfare recipients, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) argued in his 1995 book Profiles in Character.
In a chapter called "The Restoration of Shame,” the likely 2016 presidential candidate made the case that restoring the art of public humiliation could help prevent pregnancies “out of wedlock.”
(15) Marco Rubio And Five Members Of Congress Voted For Florida's 'Scarlet Letter' Adoption Bill
Posted: 06/11/2015 6:25 pm EDT Updated: 06/11/2015 9:59 pm EDT
Sen. Marco Rubio (R) was among the Florida state legislators who voted for the so-called "Scarlet Letter" law in 2001 that required single mothers to publish their sexual histories in the newspaper in order to place their babies up for adoption.
Five U.S. congressmen -- Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart (R), Lois Frankel
(D), Jeff Miller (R), Gus Bilirakis (R) and Dennis Ross (R) -- were state legislators at the time and voted for the controversial bill. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D), Frederica Wilson (D), Daniel Webster (R) and Bill Posey (R), who were also state legislators back then, voted against it.
The law, which passed with overwhelming majorities in the House and Senate, required unwed moms who wished to put their babies up for adoptions to post details about their recent sexual encounters in the newspaper in an attempt to contact the father, even if the woman was a victim of rape or incest. The purpose of the bill was to inform estranged biological fathers that their children were being adopted and give them the chance to intervene.
(16)INDIANA STANDS BY DISGUSTING DECISION TO JAIL WOMAN FOR TWENTY YEARS OVER MISCARRIAGE
Posted by Patricia Colli on 24 Dec 2015
Purvi Patel has now been incarcerated at the Indiana Women’s Prison for eight months – for having a miscarriage.
Earlier this year, 35-year-old Patel became the first person in the history of the United States to be sent to prison for feticide, which Patel insists was actually a miscarriage and a situation far beyond her control. According to Patel, she had delivered a stillborn fetus after being about 23 weeks pregnant. The premature fetus wasn’t moving, and she tried to resuscitate it but was unsuccessful in her attempts. Patel didn’t want her conservative Hindu parents to discover what had happened, so she disposed of the fetus and sought medical attention because she was bleeding.
Prosecutors in Indiana framed Patel’s incident much differently.
They accused her of taking drugs to induce an abortion – despite the fact that there were no drugs found in Patel’s system. A discredited test was also used to claim the fetus was alive at birth.
Patel was sentenced to a minimum of 20 years in prison for something she had no control over.
This case received attention all over the globe, as fears rose that Patel’s conviction of feticide and child neglect would make it easier for women to be punished for the uncontrollable variables and outcomes of their pregnancies. Reproductive rights groups rallied for her freedom, but to no avail.
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