The Republican Party Declares War On Women

[Purveyor]

Diane Roberts
guardian.co.uk, Monday 5 March 2012 11.51 EST

Republicans and their Tea Party shock troops say they want to "take America back". Progressives think they mean back to the 1950s, back to when men were men, women were ladies, and black folks only got into the White House by the back door. But Republicans are thinking big: they actually want to take us back to the Middle Ages, back to the "good old days" of sexual repression, regulation and punishment.

Forget the economy: this election is becoming a referendum on women's bodies, since it's women (according to the Republicans' Book of Holy Misogyny) who like to have sex without wanting to get pregnant, and, if they do get pregnant, might want to have an abortion; women who demand, as former Senator Rick Santorum says, a "license to do things in the sexual realm that is [sic] counter to how things are supposed to be."

You know, "sluts".

Republicans in Congress have launched a dubious investigation of Planned Parenthood, the century-old women's health organization, and tried to take away its funding. The Senate narrowly defeated an amendment that would have allowed employers to deny insurance coverage for anything the employer found morally or religiously objectionable: contraception, certainly, but perhaps also lung cancer treatment ("you should have stopped smoking&quot , HIV/Aids testing ("homosexuality is an abomination&quot , and pre-natal care for single women ("nice girls get themselves a husband before they get themselves a baby&quot .

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/mar/05/republican-party-declares-war-on-women?newsfeed=true

[Drale]

1. The Republicans declaired war in the 60's

the headline should read, The Republican Party amps up its War On Women

[polichick]

2. True - that's when they started the think tanks that led to this moment.

[ladywnch]

3. I would argue that taking us back to the 50's would be too progressive. they want us back to the

1900s - pre women's vote.

THAT is what the really want.

[longship]

4. Wow! Must read

Diane Roberts really cuts loose. Lots of links in the text, so she's documented her claims, which for any active DUer are already well known.

The Guardian is one of my favorite UK news sources.

Highly recommended (and )