The list of misogynist bills introduced by Republicans in the past two weeks showing what they want for women.
1) Rape. Republicans are actually trying to redefine rape to exclude drugging a women and raping her, or getting her drunk and raping her. After a major backlash, they promised to stop. But they haven't - the language is still out there.
2) More Rape. 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 crimes, like robbery, would remain "victims." Apparently in Georgia if a women is raped, she isn’t really – she is just an annoying accuser. Which means the rapist is not really a criminal.
3) Murder. In South Dakota, Republicans proposed a bill that could make it legal to murder anyone who injures or threatens a fetus, including a doctor who provides abortion care and the mother. He denies it has anything to do with abortion so I guess it is aimed at making it OK for a husband or boyfriend to kill his partner if he thinks she might injure the fetus - like in a car accident, or he just doesn’t like her anymore.
4) Starvation. Republicans want to cut nearly a billion dollars of food and other aid to low-income pregnant women, mothers, babies, and kids. But payments to corporations to not grow food to keep prices up is still in the budget.
5) Death. 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 (so she and fetus die).
6) Ignorance and slavery. 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. They should be slaves to their husbands instead [see John Lennon, Woman Is The Nigger Of The World].
7) More ignorance. 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) Poverty and starvation. 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) Sickness. Congress voted yesterday 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) Barefoot and pregnant. And if that wasn't enough, Republicans are pushing to eliminate all funds for the only federal family planning program for humans. Dan Burton, who supports eliminating funds for family planning has introduced a bill to provide contraception for wild horses. Horses have more value to him than America’s women?
Republicans ran on a platform of jobs and small government. But for America’s women and children their agenda is rape, murder, poverty, starvation, ignorance, pregnancy and slavery. Just what has this got to do with jobs and small government? If we don’t get these people out of office and into therapy soon America’s women will all be slaves or dead.
The Republicans thought they received a mandate in 2110. They received a gift. People were upset about the economy and took it out on the Democrats. That is all. The idiot Republicans have seized on the idae that they are now able to ram the social agenda down our throats. Hopefully peopel like us will keep writing and talking about the idiots on the right and come this fall we clear them out of Congress and keep the White House.John.
ReplyDeleteI think there is a lot of "buyers remorse" going on in America today. It is imperative that we get a more balanced Congress - not all Republican and not all Democrat, but some honest people from both parties to represent all Americans and not just the rich and powerful.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I wonder - do such people exist?