GOP House adds "Handmaid's Tale" clause to its government shutdown bill

[ZRT2209]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/09/28/gop-to-add-conscience-clause-to-spending-bill/

[jimlup]

1. This just paints them further into a highly partisan corner...

The American people can see through their crap. The more they pile it on the more obvious it becomes.

[Zorra]

2. They're accelerating The Republican War On Women. Why do they hate us so much? nt

[freshwest]

8. The same reason they hate everyone else. Good for business, holding onto wealth, resources...

They regard the mass of humans as 'capital' that they can use, abuse or discard when it's no longer good for their profit or pleasure. To get to their state of mind, read some of the critiques of Randian philosophy. It's totally inhuman and sociopathic.
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[TBF]

12. It's not that they hate us -

it's that they love their $$$ more. They'll just as happily fire men and would love to take away everyone's health care but their own.

Capitalism only makes them worse because it rewards this ridiculous behavior ...

[jsr]

3. 'To allow employers and insurers to opt out of preventative care for women'

There ya go.

[BrotherIvan]

4. My question is why do women not riot over things like this?

Paying $40-120 dollars a month for birth control on top of health insurance is discrimination plain and simple. By not shouting down these idjits down, the debate is allowed to go on. We are being far too passive about this and that's why they keep pulling this shit. And other women who buy into this creepy pseudo-religious crap make my blood boil!

[historylovr]

6. Because if we do

we're accused of making 'pedantic screeds.'

[LisaLynne]

11. +1

[DirkGently]

7. We should all be rioting about it.

I can't imagine why any man would be okay with women being treated this way.

Thing is, I don't think most of us are. But somehow Republicans revel in nasty attacks on women, and presumably think it helps them ... somehow?

[uponit7771]

10. dems aren't screaming loud enough over it, it would be on front page news screaming day to

...day if I was running the communiction of the DNC..

The GOP would be known as the "no sex" party after I would get done...

[historylovr]

5. Fixed the punctuation in this quote:

The so-called “conscience clause” would allow employers and insurers to opt out of preventative care for women--which they find objectionable on moral or religious grounds.

Fuck the greedy old perverts.

[freshwest]

9. The Handmaiden's Tale is a frightening vision of the dystopia they want. Which can only be

achieved by a right wing coup that destroys the entirety of civil society in the USA. It's their new world order, but it's also a very old one, as well.

People better their heads out of the dirt and stop fighting with each other, because we do have a very powerful, well funded and fanatical enemy. And they are not playing with us.