THE WAR ON WOMEN

Health Concerns Mount With
A Flurry of Attacks on
Women’s Reproductive Rights

By Victor M Adamus

It started with an electorate in 14 states voting for Republican candidates to solve the State’s economy and create jobs and has ended with Governors and conservatives defunding Planned Parenthood and passing legislation the fringe right wants which are laws that skirt Roe v Wade by imposing on women transvaginal testing before abortions or having doctors document who they performed an abortion on, making the names public and even telling rape victims abortion can cause breast cancer when that is totally false and could lead to lawsuits against the States.  The cancer claim language has been pulled in States where Attorneys have warned the Republican body has crossed the line. 

Women are not an interest group, yet they comprise a huge percentage of the electorate nationwide.  They are mothers, daughters, sisters and wives.  They also know more than any government about how to care for their own bodies.  These laws are a sign of Big Government, Taliban type legislation leaking into our democratic base to put women’s issues, women themselves under the evangelical thumb.  Although there are also women who support these invasive measures, most don’t.  Men who hate women wield an unbelievable amount of power, including their standard bearer Rush Limbaugh who attacked a young lawyer, testifying on Capitol Hill, as a whore.

In Texas, Governor Rick Perry, cut Planned Parenthood from the budget and denied accepting the federal monies that flowed to the state to give pre-natal care and breast screening to over 330,000 women.  A voting block of women in that state could change the legislators this November and hand the state to Barack Obama’s re-election bid.

The issues surrounding this War on Women have political and social implications.  It’s hard to understand why conservatives would drop important issues like the economy and jobs and head off with the fringe right, the Tea Party souls bent on returning the country to the 18^th Century.  One would think it would be difficult to keep ones job as Senator or Congressman by slamming this anti-women legislation down the electorate’s throat in an election year. 

We will offer what we are wondering about concerning this strange attack on women and offer some facts and the people involved later in the week.  It’s important enough to cover what we know and make recommendations of what women could do.  One would be to unite and there’s a good place to start.  Sign up at EMILY’S.