the gop war on women: why candidates on the right are happy to label birth control a wrong

[niyad]

The GOP's war on women
Why candidates on the right are happy to label birth control a wrong





Back in the good old days, a kinder, gentler Republican Party, seeking to punish women who dared to have sex for the pleasure of it, targeted only those who accidentally got pregnant — by forcing them to bring their fetuses to term. Today, it seems, that scheme doesn't punish enough women for the perceived sexual sins committed by so many. In the GOP of the 21st century, the standard-bearers aim to make sure all fertile women pay for their pleasure with a pregnancy and childbirth.

Everywhere you look, birth control is under attack, most notably by all of the candidates competing for the Republican presidential nomination. To advance the cause, the candidates are allied with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, which has cleverly framed its war against women as an issue of religious freedom — a talking point that the candidates, especially Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, have jumped on.

For the Republican base, with its antipathy to what it calls "Obamacare," the controversy over birth control is quite perfect. That base, as it exists today, is largely composed of the religious right, which stands in opposition to women's equality, and the Tea Party movement, which was organized by political operators in opposition to the health care reform legislation that became law in 2009 as the Affordable Care Act.

At a deeper level, though, the appropriation of the bishops' position by the Republican candidates is the full-flower expression of what might be called the Romanizing of the Protestant right — a cross-pollination of convenience between historically opposed factions of Christendom, a phenomenon that has unfolded with little fanfare over the course of the past three decades

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http://www.csindy.com/colorado/the-gops-war-on-women/Content?oid=2430762

[CrispyQ]

1. Soon they will advocate for taking away women's right to vote.

They will give our vote to the main male in our life - father, husband, brother, uncle. They will give fetus' voting rights & those votes will be given to the father (to vote with!) until the fetus/child reaches voting age. If, however, the child is a girl, her father will continue to have the votes until she marries at which point her votes are given to her husband. And when she gets pregnant . . .

This way they can claim that they never took our voting rights away, they merely reassigned them. They'll call it "The Responsible Woman Voting Act."

No, I did not just smoke a big bong hit.

I hope women in this country are paying attention. Particularly the non-voting ones.

I hope they all get a copy of Margaret Atwood's "A Handmaid's Tale" & read it. Read it now.

[niyad]

2. sadly, I dont think you are far from wrong in their ultimate goals

[CrispyQ]

3. I'll need one of those mimosa's too.

[niyad]

4. coming right up!!!

[CTyankee]

8. got one for me?

[niyad]

9. of course--the way things are going, just going to keep the bar open

[RC]

5. Label this for what it really is -

A war against a woman's Civil Rights.

[niyad]

6. it is indeed, and not just against our rights, but against our very existence

[LiberalLoner]

7. they are absolutely planning a coup

And they completely plan to take away a woman's right to vote next. Tney also plan on outlawing education for women.

Everything is falling right in line with that article I read that was being distributed by a MGen in the AF a few years ago.

[niyad]

10. when I point out that some of them are actually openly talking about repealing the 19th, greeted

with disbelief. but I have been reading reports from some of these whackos in politics and religion for years, and there is some truly frightening stuff in those reports.