By Victor Adamus
It’s inspiring to read about a person named Karen who has
no political background, per se, reach a boiling point and start a women’s
movement locally in her City of Washington, D.C. and be successful. Karen had had enough of the war waged against
women on almost every front by conservatives and evangelicals, conservative
talk show radio and Fox News. Women’s
health issues are a target of the right and in one weekend Karen was able to
get 500 women and men to support her protest day coming up on 28 April
2012. Since her website was up she won
the support of the National Association of Women (NOW); Moveon.gov; the Coffee
Party, the Coalition of Labor Union Women; and the National League of Latin
American Women. Planned Parenthood, in
most states, have also joined in their support.
Karen is one of thousands, if not millions, who see this fight as a war
against conservative men in politics voting for laws against women that amount
to a Homeland Terrorism. Now a national
day to protest, the movement has listed at least one city in each state to
inform legislators “enough is enough”.
“There's a war being
waged on women! The reproductive rights issue is only one of the targets. From
stripping education budgets that gravely rob our children, to rolling back
equal pay laws and domestic violence protections, to changing Voting laws that
disproportionately effect minorities and WOMEN -- we say, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!” Her motto for the protest march later this
month.
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In Texas Planned Parenthood had a special place in the
health care market, taking over patients private doctors didn’t want. Governor Rick Perry (R) cut Medicaid from the
State budget and closed all Planned Parenthood offices available to women under
a ruling that they were doing abortions.
Then Perry sued the Obama Administration expecting to continue to
receive funds to help approximately 330,000 women that were taken out of the
health care loop because they couldn’t afford to pay health care premiums. There is no safety net for even the women who
need breast cancer screening and other tests.
It appears to be unique to states that have a Republican Governor.
In Virginia Governor Bob McDonald (R) pulled aside an
amendment calling for women seeking an abortion to have a trans-vaginal
ultrasound, so invasive it tested the rape laws in the State. Virginia was made a mockery on various YouTubes
including Saturday Night Live (SNL), one which showed a Trans-Vaginal Airline
which forced women to wait 24 hours for a flight and have the ultrasound test
before boarding.
These attacks against women are not funny. As one state worker wrote in a tweet, “Everyone
in the Virginia legislature need to have an anal probe to find their brains”. McDonald is rumored to be on a short list of
Vice Presidential Candidates if Mitt Romney wins the Republican nomination for
President. Romney has lost an estimated
14% of the female vote, nationwide, because of Republican legislators
alienating women over women health care issues and that number could grow as other
states sign into law Taliban type legislation against women’s reproductive
rights.
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| RED = War on Women States |
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