The GOP War On Women Now A Blitzkrieg Of Legislation

[TheMastersNemesis]

The blitzkrieg of anti reproductive rights legislation both overt and covert is a well planned assault in collusion with the churches and right wing to end women's freedom to control their own destiny. It is an effort to put women back in their place in the kitchen and endlessly pregnant. It is the most serious attack in a generation before the next election. The GOP is convinced it can win this political and cultural civil war before the next election cycle. They are confident that they and stop any backlash by ending women's ability to vote them out because they now have free gratis to gerrymander and suppress the women's vote indefinitely as well as anyone who might appose them.

The Catholic Justices of the Supreme Court delivered religious institutions the tools they need to make anti reproductive and sexual activity control laws a permanent part of the landscape by gutting the VRA. The battle in Texas is the first sign that they may have succeeded because Texas wasted no time in acting against the right to vote. When you church ID is more valid to vote than your military service card, the nation is in trouble big time.

The GOP is more interested in a coup against freedom and democracy so they can implement all their plans to help make this a Christian nation. It is more obvious by the day that the GOP is the captive of the churches and extreme RW reactionaries. And the GOP is now a more serious threat to the nation than Bin Laden ever was.

[Ilsa]

1. Lysistrata. Only this time, it's over

Reproductive rights.

We stop having sex with them because of the risk of getting pregnant and there are fewer clinics to get birth control from.

[OneGrassRoot]

2. The glaring irony...

is the collusion between fundamentalist Christians and corporatocracy.

Maybe irony isn't the right word; hypocrisy. Maybe both.

They are picking and choosing their morals. Obviously, serving others (especially the poor), honesty, humility and other alleged Christian values have no place in the American Taliban.

The financial elite are playing them like fiddles, and they're getting away with it, as you laid out so well.

[Arugula Latte]

6. I'm trying to wrap my head around what the corporatocracy gets out of this.

Is it just that they want women breeding their next crop of minimum-wage slaves, or is there something more?

[OneGrassRoot]

7. I think it's merely distraction...

The corporatocracy benefits from the distraction.

There are myriad ways they instigate pitting the citizenry against one another -- women's issues, marriage equality, immigration -- and I think that's simply to distract from their raping and pillaging. Most of these teabagger political types aren't very bright, so I don't think THEY even realize that's what is happening.

[Arugula Latte]

8. That makes sense. I guess it's been the Grand Plan for a long time.

Reel the religious suckers in with divisive social issues and get them to vote against their own economic interests...

[OneGrassRoot]

9. Yes, you said it better than I. :) n/t

[emulatorloo]

3. Heads Up: DU'ers will be discouraging Democratic voters in 2014

They did it in 2010 and helped fill the House with anti-women teabaggers.

[bluestate10]

12. Yeah, the self professed "progressives" are the worst threat to progress.

Their actions since 2000 has done nothing but give power to conservative republicans. First they elected GW Bush, followed that up by sitting home in 2004 when Kerry had a chance because Kerry was not "pure" enough for them, then they sit out the 2010 midterms and give power to republicans to obstruct. There is hope. Many Independents were tricked by republicans in 2010, those people are watching the absolute travesty going on in republican controlled states, they are likely lean democratic in 2014, those people out-number "progressives" by a large margin. I know about Independents and the power of their vote, they worked with true democrats to save the office for a true progressive democratic governor in the 2010 election in Massachusetts after enough "progressives" stuck their fucking heads in the sand and set up to vote for Jill Stein. The true democrats and the Independents that held their backs at crunch time proved to be the wiser ones, by far.

[Romulus Quirinus]

4. This is crazy. O_o nt

[WinkyDink]

5. Let me know when US women take to the streets. Apparently complacency abounds.

[Kurovski]

11. Texas, Ohio.

In the thousands. Men, too.

[WinkyDink]

14. Touche'. Alas, if it isn't shown on FOX, it "didn't happen."

[bluestate10]

13. Better to take to the voting booths and before that, defeat every republican attempt to suppress

their vote. BTW, what is it about "progressives" and street protests? Is it getting beaten, pepper sprayed or dragged by cops? Is it being in a jail cell with hot members of the opposite sex? Regardless, all of the street stuff is a waste of time. Getting in a voting booth and getting more people to vote your way is far more effective, and, and, may be you're meet a hot member of the opposite sex during the process, with no sweaty cops hanging out to beat the crap out of you.

[WinkyDink]

15. See: Egypt.

[Kurovski]

10. Sneaky bastards. Underhanded little shits.

Please, let's get rid of the whole rotten lot in the next two election cycles.

[cali]

16. This ain't new. The blitzkrieig of legislation has been going on for years

2011 was a banner year.

This is a carefully crafted approach to gut Roe that goes back a decade. They didn't need the SCOTUS to deliver these laws. In fact, ALEC has been more of a contributing factor than SCOTUS. ALEC helps push through these laws in exchange for support for laws that enrich corporations and destroy working people and the poor.

How does the destruction of the VRA figure into this?

The new laws in TX have nothing to do with the destruction of the VRA.

http://www.guttmacher.org/