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Reproductive Health Laws Prove GOP 'War on Women' Is No Fiction

Republicans attacked women's rights on all fronts in 2012

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There are thousands of Republican women in the US, we do not hate ourselves. This is the talk from the 70/s and 80s which was valid then. We fought for women to be treated as if they were responsible, reliable, capable, and competent. We fought so women would be treated respectfully and no as sexual objects in the workforce. Women have dishonored that fight by allowing the disgusting treatment of other women by even taking part in calling other women disgusting names, not fighting against the Rap crap and "comedy" and by acting as if we are too stupid to access a planned parenthood or Walmart, etc for birth control. Why should you think women like Paris Hilton and professional women like lawyers should have the rest of us or the men in the country pay for something they are perfectly capable of paying for themselves. If the fight was to pay for women who could actually not afford or access health I wouldn't be opposed , but if cutting down on spending is really an issue, why would we pay or the "rich" to access birth control. You are being fooled by Democratic talking points. Please reconsider your vote and vote for Romney.

Linda Hayden of CO 8:34AM September 26, 2012

We dont legislate what issues out of a penis, why should we legislate what issues out of a vagina?

irishgrl of CA 2:38PM August 30, 2012

I am registered GOP, but I will NOT vote for GOP in national elections. Romney is a big disappointment... and the other idiot GOP legislators will not get my vote either. We GOP women will NOT be pushed around! We will NOT tolerate attacks by the male GOPers!

VirginiaFr of CA 10:46AM May 26, 2012

I am registered GOP, but I will NOT vote for GOP in national elections. Romney is a big disappointment... and the other idiot GOP legislators will not get my vote either. We GOP women will NOT be pushed around! We will NOT tolerate attacks by the male GOPers!

VirginiaFr of CA 10:44AM May 26, 2012

Nice to hear a woman who thinks abortion is bad and encourages adoption. The other major point was that women who experience pregnancy are more than inconvenienced. So perhaps child bearing is an acceptable substitute for inconvenience. Most people already know child bearing is more than inconvenient.

Working in the hot sun all day five days a week for 40 years is a lot more difficult than bearing a child for nine months. And men have been doing that for a long time, but they are not demanding the government relieve them of their burden for nine months with snazzy quick fixes because they chose their burden by having twenty minutes of fun and games in a nice cushy bed. Men choose their lifestyles just as women do; but society requires men to pay for it by working for 40 years or by child support or both. On the other hand, women choose their lifestyles but hate paying for it and blame others for failing to help them.

Most men are in favor of child support of illicit children, but not when the woman is given full custody. The man’s excellent logic is if the woman should be relieved of her choice, so should the man be relieved of his choice. Of course child support should be required in any event, in my view, because a child needs care and the man made a choice, albeit a foolish choice encouraged by the woman, many parents, and by our liberal society.

Having sex has consequences. But women are not willing to accept those consequences. That is cowardice.

Worse, having children is considered a burden rather than a blessing and a duty. Sex is part of transcendent truth. God said to be fruitful and multiply. If you don’t accept this transcendent truth, you do not believe in the Bible.

Paul of LA 11:02PM April 25, 2012

"NO ONE SHOULD HAVE THE "CHOICE" TO KILL FOR THE SAKE OF THEIR CONVENIENCE AFTER ACTING IRRESPONSIBLY...

Women need to stop whining, pouting and being indignant - and accept accountability for their "Choices"."

When you start advocating for laws tracking down the men that impregnate women and forcing them to pay for the children that resulted from these so-called irresponsible acts for the next 18 years, then come talk to me.

"FOR THE SAKE OF THEIR CONVENIENCE": hmmm. Nice to see how little you think of or understand about how pregnancy affects women. Pregnancy is not a "convenience." It has real world consequences on the health, finances, and social standing of women.

Medical effects:

Pregnancy is a risky medical condition: pregnant women may experience hypertension, endometriosis, blood clots, intermittant nausea, strokes, vaginal tears, uterine prolapse, and, in some very rare instances, even death.

Financial effects:

Pregnant women often experience discrimination on the job or in the job search process. Sometimes, due to the health risks listed above, they are unable to work at all.

Social Standing:

In very conservative religious families or communities, a woman or girl who is pregnant out of wedlock may be publically shamed and sent away from her friends or family to have the baby; in some extreme cases, a pregnant woman or girl may even be shunned or excommunicated by her family or society.

No more of this "convenience" talk. Abortion is bad. Forcing a women to continue a pregnancy against her will is bad. Let's get together and take steps to do things we can all agree on to reduce the number of abortions in our nation:

1) Encourage lawmakers to fund homes for girls and women who might be made homeless due to their pregnancy.

2) Encourage lawmakers to fund medical care for pregnant women and their newborn babies.

3) Encourage lawmakers to continue to fund adoption services.

4) Support Obamacare's mandate that insurers cover low-cost or free hormonal contraception.

5) Stop attacking Planned Parenthood; drop the adverserial relationship, and work with PP staff to offer brief and immediate counseling sessions or online trainings to women before their abortions about the newly-funded pregnant girls'/womens' homes and adoption services.

Surprise of CA 4:54AM April 15, 2012

"In most cases, contraception isn’t a medically necessary procedure, which is why they aren’t covered now. (hold your comments, we will talk about medically necessary contraception in a minute). So we must decide, is pregnancy a disease, or isn’t it. If it is, let’s include it. If not, let’s not."

No-one is saying pregnancy is a disease. People are saying that it is a medical condition that holds certain risks for women: hypertension, endometriosis, blood clots, intermittant nausea, strokes, vaginal tears, uterine prolapse, and, in some very rare instances, even death. Hormonal medications, such as the Pill, allow women to prevent or plan this risky medical condition. They also allow treatment of other non-pregnancy related medical conditions, such as excessive menstrual bleeding and ovarian cysts.

And, most medical insurers DO cover hormonal medications. Why? Because they understand that that these drugs treat, prevent, or allow patients to plan for risky medical conditions.

Surprise of CA 4:23AM April 15, 2012

The Poor clueless womynists have become slaves to radical anti-women, anti-baby, anti-family, and outright Nazi policies like Eugenicist Margaret Sanger's racist extermination plans like the 1939 "Negro Project'

You can stick her and other human extinctionists quotes and work right in their face, but they will laugh and call you a liar.

It's the same as the Democrat brainwashing about the Republican Party.

The D&C would have young people believe the Republicans were all slave owning, cross burning hood wearers, when the exact opposite was the truth.

Most of the Democrats voted against Abolition, and most of the Republicans voted to FREE the slaves.

SavageNation of CA 5:52AM April 14, 2012

A war on women means killing women. Let’s not be nominalists and change the meaning of war. Exactly who are killing women, and exactly what Republican-approved legislative act is designed to help them kill women?

Paul of LA 12:08AM April 13, 2012