The Republican party has been talking a lot about “re-branding themselves” that they have just done a poor job explaining what they believe. One of the their favorite things to repeatedly insist is their has never been “A War on Women” that it’s all a liberal boogeyman set up to scare women. So since their self proclaimed out reach to Women & minorities began after losing the election, I thought it was time to see how far they’ve gotten with women. All of the following will have source links so you can read the quotes for yourself, if you doubt me.
Lets jump right in Women’s bodies (other wise known as healthcare & reproductive rights)
1) Republican leaders do not believe insurance should cover birth control. Some Like John Boehner & Mitt Romney believe a womans employer should be allowed refuse to provide insurance coverage of birth control (which is not free birth control as GOP likes to claim since women PAY for their insurance just like men do) Many like Rick Santorum don’t believe women should take birth control at all. Folks I really thought this idea that women, married or single, do not have the right to decide when to have or how many children they have, died in the 70’s, except for among a few fanatics & the Vatican. Don’t kid yourself making birth control unaffordable is a way to deny women this right.
2) Since you can afford your birth control Uh oh your pregnant, So sorry The great majority of GOP lawmakers DO NOT want you to be able to have an abortion. Beyond the attempts to over turn roe Many states, like North Dakota, Texas, Virginia & Arizona & many other GOP controlled legislatures have pass such restrictive ( not to much humiliating) regulations & then cutting funding that women’s clinics have closed in droves. Of course Texas is quietly trying to refund the programs, since they cut $73 million from the programs new projections are that in 2014 an extra 24,000 unplanned pregnancies will cost the state $273 Million.
3) So now you have a baby,.You didn’t get use the evil birth control, you didn’t have an abortion, you are single working mom. So The GOP is so proud of you right? RIGHT?….This is a quote from the CPAC , a conference attended by Boehner, Santorum, Romney, Rubio, Jindal, all the GOP heavy weights. This.speaker was leading a group discussion. It’s a quoted from an article By Adele M. Stan
Charles Butler : Single-parent households the fault of women with an agenda “on the booty call.” At a breakout session titled “Fatherless America: The Headwaters of Poverty, Crime & Social Dysfunction,” Butler laid the problem of single-parent families squarely at the feet of women, who, he suggested, are essentially tricking men into have children they don’t want (because apparently most men have never heard of condoms):
“I’ve had two instances that were very close to me where this fatherless thing comes into play. Michael Jordan is a personal friend of mine — Michael Jordan the basketball player, and a woman just filed a paternity suit against him for supposedly having this child out of wedlock. You have to understand that this woman that he had this child with, supposedly, was a sex instructor, so she clearly knew how babies got here. But she chose to have a baby because of money: Michael Jordan’s a multimillionaire. How many of you remember the slide on Sports Illustrated with a picture of a little baby and the caption, “Where’s my daddy?”
“Well, these women chose to have babies on their own on the booty call. I just hate to break it down like that, but that’s exactly what happened. There was not two words mentioned: “love” or “marry.” Now, believe me, black men know how to ask someone to marry them…I’ve seen too many times when they’ve either been forced into marrying a woman they didn’t want to marry, or being an absentee father.”
So conservatives now say that as a single mom you are not only are you a conniving slut trying to trick some poor unsuspecting man into marrying you or paying child support, but you, woman, are responsible for Poverty, Crime & Social dysfunction,. All because when they prevented you from having access to birth control, you had to go out & have sex anyway….slut! Oh & god knows that poor man you seduced is now forced to be an absentee father…… I AM SORRY BUT WHAT KIND OF HUGE PILE OF BULLSHIT IS THIS?
4) The fact that it gets worse is almost beyond belief, that many of these for lack of a better word “people” think that if you or your teenage daughter get rape ( & you better just hope it’s not by talented high school football players), you should be forced to have your rapists baby. Again being a single mom means your responsible for poverty, crime, blah blah blah….
Oh interesting bit of trivia If you are strong enough to raise this child, 31 states in this country give your rapist the right to sue for visitation or custody of their rape baby. Just in case you hadn’t been through enough already….. I thought I was actually going to be sick when I read this.
5) The fact that women are disproportionately affected by the extreme cuts the GOP wants to make. Those Planned parenthood clinics they closed, who provided free Cancer & health screenings for women as well as birth control with government money Gov. funding was used for abortions),leaving many women’s health in serious danger.
6) The constant obstructions of Equal pay measures & the Violence Against Women Act.
All of these things are going on since the election, while they talk of reaching out to women. Actually it seems to have actually gotten worse almost as if it’s spite that the majority of women didn’t support them, or maybe it’s waving a white flag knowing they are going to continue to lose & a desperation play in do as much damage as possible while they can.. I really don’t know what they are thinking. What I do know is that if they think most of the women in this country are stupid enough to believe when they say one thing , while doing the exact opposite(sorry guys that only works on your wives)., they are going to continue to lose & lose huge..
Southern Women Know.. 