14 Vicious Republican Assaults on America. GOP Want Females Banned from Public View. (# 3 and 4)

Women's rights must be taken away!! Justifiable homicide!! Are these the new trends in America? Are planned parenthood, contraception and abortion to be banned in our NEW society? Should morality be mandated by our government?

# 3 and 4, of my list of 14 vicious attacks on America by the Republican Party.

#3 Women's Rights under siege:

The Top 10 shocking attacks on women by the New Republican Party (The New Reich Wing Party). (NOT a misspelling).

• 1. Republicans not only want to reduce women's access to abortion care, they are actually trying to redefine rape. After a major backlash, they promised to stop. But they have not stopped.
• 2. A state legislator in Georgia wants to change the legal term of 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 {THIS IS NO JOKE, FOLKS}
• 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 proposed 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 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 voted February 18, 2011 on 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 just can't make this stuff up)

House Republicans were able to pass an amendment by Rep. Mike Pence that would eliminate all federal funding to Planned Parenthood clinics. The amendment further reduced support for women's health care in a spending resolution that, if passed, would also eliminate all title X family planning funds. Title X clinics provide everything from annual exams and cancer screenings to contraceptive services and treatment of sexually transmitted infections.

#4 South Dakota

The Republicans introduced legislature called the "justifiable homicide" bill which would make the murder of reproductive health care providers legally defensible on the grounds that the act could have been considered "defense" of a fetus.

Thank God, the So. Dakota legislature roundly defeated this bill. The motivation behind introducing this bill, referred to as the "justifiable homicide" bill, was meant to pave the way for another attack on choice that the Right hopes will appear "reasonable" in comparison.

A New South Dakota bill, this one widely expected to pass, would require a woman seeking an abortion to first visit a religious "crisis pregnancy center" for counselling and to prove that her decision was not made under coercion. The So. Dakota legislature has twice tried to pass a statewide ban on abortion, but citizens overwhelmingly voted down the ban by ballot initiative in 2006 and 2008. "They seem to be taking an end run around that", said State Senator Angie Buhl, a leader in the fight to protect reproductive freedom in South Dakota. "They recognize that people don't want a ban, so they are trying to seek a de facto ban by making it essentially impossible to access abortion services".

So, much for the separation of church and state. The bigots in this country seem to be in the minority, but they are relentless in their vicious pursuits to mandate morality for everyone.

To be continued.....

by: d.william 03/13/11