FYI, American ladies
Feb. 19th, 2011 10:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lotus0kidJust in case you don't know, your rights to control your own body are under attack.
There have been some absolutely horrifying bills proposed and passed by various state governments recently, not to mention the garbage the GOP is vomiting up all over the House. These bills serve no other purpose than to reduce women to incubators for the next generation of uneducated, unemployable children.
I'm going to do my best to attend the DC Walk for Choice event next Saturday. No woman can afford to be silent about this if she values herself as a human being.
ETA: Top 10 Shocking Attacks from the GOP War on Women (as provided by MoveOn.Org)
1) Republicans not only want to reduce women's access to abortion care, they're actually trying to redefine rape. After a major backlash, they promised to stop. But they haven't.
2) A state legislator in Georgia wants to change the legal term for victims of rape, stalking, and domestic violence to "accuser." But victims of other less gendered crimes, like burglary, would remain "victims."
3) In South Dakota, Republicans proposed a bill that could make it legal to murder a doctor who provides abortion care. (Yep, for real.)
4) Republicans want to cut nearly a billion dollars of food and other aid to low-income pregnant women, mothers, babies, and kids.
5) In Congress, Republicans have proposed a bill that would let hospitals allow a woman to die rather than perform an abortion necessary to save her life.
6) Maryland Republicans ended all county money for a low-income kids' preschool program. Why? No need, they said. Women should really be home with the kids, not out working.
7) And at the federal level, Republicans want to cut that same program, Head Start, by $1 billion. That means over 200,000 kids could lose their spots in preschool.
8) Two-thirds of the elderly poor are women, and Republicans are taking aim at them too. A spending bill would cut funding for employment services, meals, and housing for senior citizens.
9) Congress voted yesterday on a Republican amendment to cut all federal funding from Planned Parenthood health centers, one of the most trusted providers of basic health care and family planning in our country.
10) And if that wasn't enough, Republicans are pushing to eliminate all funds for the only federal family planning program. (For humans. But Republican Dan Burton has a bill to provide contraception for wild horses. You can't make this stuff up).
There have been some absolutely horrifying bills proposed and passed by various state governments recently, not to mention the garbage the GOP is vomiting up all over the House. These bills serve no other purpose than to reduce women to incubators for the next generation of uneducated, unemployable children.
I'm going to do my best to attend the DC Walk for Choice event next Saturday. No woman can afford to be silent about this if she values herself as a human being.
ETA: Top 10 Shocking Attacks from the GOP War on Women (as provided by MoveOn.Org)
1) Republicans not only want to reduce women's access to abortion care, they're actually trying to redefine rape. After a major backlash, they promised to stop. But they haven't.
2) A state legislator in Georgia wants to change the legal term for victims of rape, stalking, and domestic violence to "accuser." But victims of other less gendered crimes, like burglary, would remain "victims."
3) In South Dakota, Republicans proposed a bill that could make it legal to murder a doctor who provides abortion care. (Yep, for real.)
4) Republicans want to cut nearly a billion dollars of food and other aid to low-income pregnant women, mothers, babies, and kids.
5) In Congress, Republicans have proposed a bill that would let hospitals allow a woman to die rather than perform an abortion necessary to save her life.
6) Maryland Republicans ended all county money for a low-income kids' preschool program. Why? No need, they said. Women should really be home with the kids, not out working.
7) And at the federal level, Republicans want to cut that same program, Head Start, by $1 billion. That means over 200,000 kids could lose their spots in preschool.
8) Two-thirds of the elderly poor are women, and Republicans are taking aim at them too. A spending bill would cut funding for employment services, meals, and housing for senior citizens.
9) Congress voted yesterday on a Republican amendment to cut all federal funding from Planned Parenthood health centers, one of the most trusted providers of basic health care and family planning in our country.
10) And if that wasn't enough, Republicans are pushing to eliminate all funds for the only federal family planning program. (For humans. But Republican Dan Burton has a bill to provide contraception for wild horses. You can't make this stuff up).
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Date: 2011-02-19 04:53 pm (UTC)My family is Catholic, and every year, there's one week in January where priests have to give a homily (sermon) about abortion. Our priest is psychotically conservative (he'd have us all saying Mass in Latin if he could), and he went on this rant about how when he was a high school counselor in the late-1980s, a girl came to him because she was broken up over having an abortion, so he drove her home, broke the news to her parents, and "watched a broken family." We were all like, "Why didn't you comfort them?" I nearly stood up and ranted about how he has no respect for women's bodies or something. It was horrible.
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Date: 2011-02-19 08:21 pm (UTC)That's my big problem with it- since abortion was declared a legal medical procedure, all anti-abortion sentiment is religious-based. And since (believe it or not) the US is not a theocracy, I find it completely unacceptable for politicians applying their religious beliefs on their constituents.
Not on the Top 10 list: a new bill in South Dakota that would force women who want to get an abortion to first go to a
Christianpregnancy counseling center and get a signed permission slip to have an abortion from them. Couldn't make this shit up.no subject
Date: 2011-02-20 04:50 am (UTC)Absolutely. And why do we never heard non-Christian pro-life or pro-choice arguments? Apparently, there is a pro-choice Christian movement, but all of the others manage to drown them out. You're right, all the way: in fact, this is what "separation of church and state" is about---not forcing a religion on the constituents, which is exactly what the GOP is doing. Instead, we interpret it as "don't talk about religion ever," so we never hear another religion's side on issues like this.
ICK. Because women have no spines and/or independent thought processes, of course.
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Date: 2011-02-20 11:27 pm (UTC)I was thrilled to hear that in the past (like '20s-'40s), a lot of big religious organizations were all about contraception and women's healthcare. It's only quite recently that they lost touch with reality as we know it.
Yes, quite. Dumb sacks of baby-making meat, don'tcha know.
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Date: 2011-02-19 07:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-19 08:23 pm (UTC)