In Four Months, Republicans Introduced 916 Bills Against Women’s Right To Choose

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http://ezkool.com/2011/04/in-four-months-republicans-introduced-916-bills-against-womens-right-to-choose/


-snip of bills already passed-

Four months, 916 bills intro­duced. Sounds like a new record is about to be set. What­ever hap­pened to Roe v. Wade? You know, the 1973 deci­sion by the Supreme Court that gives women the right under the 14th amend­ment of the Con­sti­tu­tion to have a choice? The law that has guided this issue for the last four decades.

Why is Roe v. Wade now a mute issue?
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proof that the religiously insane are dangerous and should never hold any govt. power.

why do they hate us women so much? fear of the things our bodies can do that their's cannot?

[SpiralHawk]

1. "We are gonna put the little ladies in their place." - Republicons (R)

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Here's what I don't understand:

Where are women as a strong voting block?

Why aren't they organizing and telling these officeholders their terms are in jeopardy?

[ejpoeta]

4. here is the problem as i see it....

there are women, such as myself, that grew up with these rights. so people assume that they are their right and no one can take it away. of course this is wrong, as we are seeing this assault, but they assume that since they have always known this as a right, then it will always be this way.

then you have people who are against abortion per se, but think that we have contraception so there is no reason for abortion. Of course, anyone who has ever had a condom break or forgotten to take their birth control pills or something else can tell you that nothing is fool proof and that you can still find yourself pregnant. I personally think this isn't just about abortion but about women having choices and men not liking that. but that's just me.

then you have the women who believe what they are being sold. some of these women, but not all, believe that women are here to get married and have kids and raise kids. some believe that women are less than men and should be subservient. these women are the most frightening to me because they raise their daughters to be what they are advocating. I couldn't imagine clipping my daughter's wings like that. I want them to grow up to be whatever they want to be!!

You would think women, who stand on the shoulders of women who had to fight for everything we take for granted, would fight to keep it. But unfortunately we have a lot of women who either don't realize what they would be losing, or don't think we should have had it in the first place.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. You make sense.

Perhaps there will be a renaissance of women demanding their reproductive rights when they find they are forced to bear unwanted children or be forced to visiting butchers in a back alley, or cannot purchase contraceptives to begin with.

[ejpoeta]

6. it's sad to see all the hard work and sacrifice that was made for us to have the things we do today.

for women and working people in general. maybe we'll all appreciate it once it's gone.

[ehrnst]

7. Because they're individuals from many walks of life and religions.

What we do all have in common is that we are told and shown from birth that we are different from men, and we should expect different things from life than men do.

We're told that having less power is good for us, that we're "lucky" to be cared for. The highest goal we have is to be desired.

To expect otherwise means you must doubt the validity of what you see and hear and experience all around you.

[OHdem10]

3. This keeps the Blue Collars occupied and all worked up over

"protecting life" while the same Republican Party puts
the screws to them financially.+

Who has ever once pointed this out on the air.

[musette_sf]

8. They want everything back to the way it was before the Pill was introduced.

An autonomous woman who can control her fertility and plan her family (or plan NO family) can:

* compete for college admission
* compete for jobs
* walk away from a bad relationship/marriage

They think that if The Handmaid's Tale Plan was in effect, there would be no problems with college admissions and unemployment.

They think that women simply do not have a right to privacy.

Abortion is a private decision between a woman and her doctor.

Any other alternative turns women's sexuality and reproductive systems into PUBLIC resources. Privacy is sacrificed. There is NO WAY to keep an unwanted forced pregnancy as a private matter.