The War on Women is Real

[neadods]

By refusing to comply with a federal law allowing women to choose their own providers of basic wellness care health services (one of those providers being Planned Parenthood), Texas has lost federal funds and denied some 70,000 women of the funded services.

Wisconsin has reinstated a strict limit on the time women are allowed to sue over wage discrimination, eliminating a law that had been written when a specific woman was denied her rights because she found out about the wage discrimination "too late."

Mississippi, which has the highest teen pregnancy rates in the nation, has laws banning the discussion of condoms in sex education *except* to discuss failure rates. Mississippi lawmakers are also trying to rewrite laws to force the state's single abortion clinic out of business. (For the purposes of overseas comparison, Mississippi state is roughly half the land mass of the island holding England, Scotland, and Wales. One. Clinic. In. The. Whole. State.)

Arizona just banned abortion after 20 weeks... which is calculated not by conception, but by the woman's last menstrual period, making the actual cutoff somewhere 16-18 weeks, depending on when the woman conceived.

Georgia tried to ban abortion for any reason after 20 weeks, including health of fetus or mother. When it was pointed out that this prevented removal of a stillbirth, one of the bill's supporters compared women carrying a dead fetus to the livestock on his farm. After the backlash, the overall ban went into affect, although with a codicil exempting mother's health or "medically futile" pregnancies.


I put on an orange vest and stood in a parking lot. (Fraulein and Father Corleone were uncharacteristically quiet today.)

We have to vote this upcoming election. But voting is not the only action we can take to fight back.

Comments

[elasg.livejournal.com]

And they have the gall to tell us it's our imagination or it's actually the democrats who are oppressing us.

*shakes head*

[neadods.livejournal.com]

The ultimate "that dog won't hunt." The "OMGWTF how dare you bash stay at home moms!" is already drying up in the light of all the Republican shennanigans that hurt stay-at-home moms on top of working women.

[elasg.livejournal.com]

That one didn't even pass the smell test. As if Ann Romney has EVER known what a housewife goes through trying to balance a budget on a shoestring while raising kids WITHOUT 5 household 'staff'.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I like the political cartoon that showed her making the "tough decisions" about being a stay at home mom. Starting at which of the 5 homes to stay in.