Women's Rights & Issues
Related: About this forum'So Long, Ladies,’ Says GOP
National Memo
Its nice to already know the Republicans strategy as they lurch toward the long and bumpy road to someone elses presidency. Removes the mystery.
Their new mantra, in GOP-speak: So long, ladies.
Ill give them this: Theyre no longer pretending to care about us. Yay for them for ending that charade. They dont want us, and apparently theyve decided they dont need us. Or, as Jeb Bush put it on Tuesday: Im not sure we need half a billion dollars for womens health issues.
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Last month, a fake group with a fake name released hidden-camera video it claimed showed Planned Parenthood illegally selling tissue from aborted fetuses. This was a lie. Nonetheless, Republicans heralded it as their version of proof that (a) women cannot be trusted to make decisions about their own health care, (b) Planned Parenthood cue Star Wars Imperial March is the Evil Empire and (c) this is what happens when you give women the vote.
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(Katha Pollit)-
As long as women were firmly ensconced in the family as wives and mothers with few rights and little social power, she writes, abortion was legal or tolerated as a way to save unmarried daughters from shame, limit family size, and protect exhausted mothers from the rigors of yet more pregnancies and births.
But once middle-class white women began to emancipate themselves and get involved in public and political life
abortion took on its modern meaning of self-determination and independence and active decision making.
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Warpy
(111,339 posts)that the party the preacher has been telling them to vote for doesn't give a damn about them as anything but devices to produce babies and get dinner on the table every night and that they need to do both without health care or other support.
onecaliberal
(32,894 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)...only wants them to produce babies and get dinner on the table every night.
niyad
(113,552 posts)unwilling/unable to face that disgusting fact.