New polling reportedly revealed to Republican Senators showed that “pro-life” is not resonating with voters anymore, so now Republicans are considering rebranding “pro-life” as “pro-baby.”
A spokesman for Governor Ron DeSantis said the high deaths among those who weren’t fully vaccinated against Covid was a matter of the Governor protecting their “right to make their own health decisions.”
Republicans may be forced to remove a portion of their legislation that would essentially doom the bill – again.
“There is zero part of me that understands why a rapist or someone who got someone pregnant against their will, maybe incest, would have any right in that decision.â€
Kasich traded one extremist, anti-choice measure for another.
Rubio readily admits that “Microcephaly is a terrible prenatal condition and it’s a lifetime of difficulties. But I’m pro-life.”
It’s July 4th, 2016 Independence Day and we are still easily debating whether or not women are people entitled to liberty.
According to a new poll, when voters were informed about the religious Republican drive to ban access to legal abortion in the states, they were “disgusted and angry” and two-thirds of voters want Republicans stopped in their tracks.
The reality is that the purpose is to punish the federal government for not adhering to Catholic and evangelicals’ religious edicts
The Reproductive Fact ACT that forces faith-based crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) to stop lying and stop posing as medical providers.
Monica Miller of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society admits what she opposes is “sex for recreation, sex for mere pleasure”
The GOP is opposed to providing for the general welfare of anyone but corporations, the filthy rich, and especially the extremely religious
According to the Catholic justices’ ruling, the Obama Administration ‘must’ provide an accommodation for “religious” for-profit corporations and on Friday, President Obama did just that in response to the High Court’s decision. In fact, what President Obama did was effectively neuter the Hobby Lobby ruling and ensure that all women, even those employed by ‘religious corporations,’ will still have birth control covered at no cost to them; even if their evangelical employers object and refuse to provide it.
What makes this decision particularly noteworthy is that the Justices agreed with a Circuit Court ruling that disabused evangelical Republicans, and theocratic governors from North Carolina and Wisconsin, of the idea that forcing women to undergo rape by medical device is not, as Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker claims, “just cool.”
Kansas’ religious Republicans are so intent on proving they will go to any length to protect a fetus that they passed legislation for the National Right To Life movement outlawing a medical procedure to ban abortions at 14 weeks after fertilization.
Today is the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling giving women the right to choose when they give birth and, like every year for over two decades, religious fanatics will protest the landmark decision. Their contention is that patriarchs in Catholic Church, not women, own the right to make reproductive choices for American women.
Instead of introducing legislation to create jobs, or help Americans struggling in an economy created for the benefit of the rich, on the first day of the 114th Congress Republicans introduced five separate bills restricting women’s reproductive rights; something they did not pledge would be at the top of their legislative agenda.
American Catholic bishops are taking advantage of the power bestowed on them by the conservative Catholics on the Supreme Court in the Hobby Lobby ruling. As is typical of the bishops, their aim is controlling American women and forcing them to either become celibate or perpetual birthing machines.
The recent appropriations bill known as the CRomnibus could have been a lot worse for women’s reproductive rights and it is very fortunate for women that Democrats and President Obama succeeded in getting it passed.
Even shaky reason dictates that a robust women’s electoral movement would cleanse Republican patriarchs from Congress, governorships, and state legislatures, and bring the Republican war on women to an abrupt and just end. However, that is certainly not the case and it is down to American women’s greatest enemy and it is not Republican men per se, but the evangelical women electing them.
Two issues alone will have a devastating affect on any religious business or corporation’s employees, but after doing a cursory reading of the Hobby Lobby et al complaint, the High Court decision will immediately affect more than just their employees.
Freedom of speech goes both ways and it is high time to give back to religious extremists what they dole out against women with impunity; and Supreme Court approval.
All of the Republicans interfering with personal health decisions are in league with extremist Christian organizations and corporations (Hobby Lobby et al) that demand authority be given to them to have complete control over a doctor and woman’s medical decisions; something that Tennessee voters, even Republican voters, overwhelmingly oppose
The claim that President Obama campaigned, and revels, in being “the abortion President” is driven by racism, evangelical fanaticism, and an abject ignorance of statistics.
The fanatical Christian-right is targeting Girl Scout USA’s annual cookie sales for a boycott because the group listed Wendy Davis as an incredible woman of the year.
The Supreme Court is likely not done facilitating theocratic tyranny or disabusing the people from their 1st and 14th Amendment rights if right wing extremists have their way.
It is the right to choose their reproductive health that women are most likely under attack from Republicans whose latest assault is restricting abortion coverage in private health care plans.
The 39th President and devout Christian addressed a human rights event and lashed out at all religious doctrines that contribute to political leaders passively accepting violence against women.
House Republicans proposed they will shut down the government unless they are allowed to restrict women’s access to contraception.
It turns out there is a segment of the population who have lost their freedom due to tyranny, but it originates with Republicans at the behest of Catholic and evangelical personhood advocates.
Although the right wing bible crowd is solidly behind any politician promising to impose the bible’s sanctions on women and gays, the rest of America is moving forward and supporting Obama’s agenda.
Apparently, voter rejection of extremist views against women in the recent election is lost on Republicans because they are persisting in attacking women’s reproductive rights as the primary focus of their war on women.
Republicans are using Michigan as a grand experiment to see if they can get away with setting fire to democracy in plain sight. They want to see if revenge bears fruit in winter.
The election was a rejection of Republican extremism on women’s reproductive rights, but in states with GOP majorities, there is still a crusade to restrict choice.
Republicans are the party of hate and their standard bearer, Willard Romney, has proven he is the avatar of hate toward the American people, but especially women.
The Values Voters Summit was not an expression of American values or a representation of the Constitution’s guarantee of freedom and equal rights.
Republicans adopted positions in their platform which are steeped in ideological purity that defines the party as angry, white, patriarchal, and paranoid.
Don’t tell Paul Ryan, but many of his positions go against everything that Ayn Rand stood for.
Women should be quaking at the prospect of an executive branch that holds women in such low esteem that they will jeopardize their health and welfare to save money for tax breaks for the wealthy.
On Wednesday, Rush Limbaugh called pro-choice organizations death squads. Let’s show Limbaugh the power of choice by making him America’s top pro-choice donor.
The past two years should give all Americans pause at what conservative Christians in control of the government would mean for women.
Republicans claim they want smaller government, but they are panting to impose their bible ideology on women with the full authority of the law.
Some of Ron Paul’s otherwise socially liberal followers are an example of men who have turned their backs on reproductive rights.
In state after state, the misogynistic mandates by Republicans enforcing religious edicts against women are inflaming men and women alike.
The Republican war on women has awoken a sleeping giant and she is furious, driven, educated, and will remove these male supremacists from power.
The Republican presidential candidates are all allied with the Republicans in Congress and have signaled that if elected, they will continue the war on women.
Republicans have assailed President Obama for allegedly waging a war on religion, but it is Republicans who are waging a religious war against women.
Virginia state Senator, Janet Howell struck a blow for gender equality with her amendment requiring men to undergo a rectal exam before getting a prescription for erectile dysfunction pills.
There is an attack on liberty in America from the corporate world, but there is a not-so-covert attack on women that is quietly steering America toward a theocracy. For example, a State Constitutional amendment on the Colorado ballot intends on extending personhood to a fetus and a fertilized ovary.
No, I kid, I kid. The Republicans have come a long way. Sure, according to Rachel Maddow, “…the Republican Party is, without actually talking about it, this year, nominating a group of candidates for top of the ticket races that are more extreme on the issue of abortion than any other slate of top-of-the-ticket candidates in any year.â€
