The ability of Republicans to operate completely within their own world of delusions continues unabated. Conservatives are urging Republicans to defend their “Pro Woman” stance of being against women’s freedom. Stand proud, you ninnies, or else!
The problem with the Republican War on Women isn’t that it’s a problem, it’s that RINOs like Ken Cuccinelli (the fact that this guy is their idea of mainstream shouts “crazy” – the ladies on The View turned him into a national joke because he sought to make oral sex illegal) and Mitt Romney refused to defend themselves properly. You see, conservatives contend that there is no war on women.
In fact, denying medical decisions to women in order to service Republican religious beliefs is actually their version of being Pro Woman, and the only problem here is that they didn’t tell you that enough. They will speak louder, so that you girls understand: THEY STEAL YOUR FREEDOM BECAUSE THEY LOVE YOU, YOU IDIOTS!
To wit, conservatives will introduce a resolution at the Republican National Committee meeting this week, encouraging Republicans to talk MORE about abortion, not less, according to Peter Hamby at CNN. This will prove that they are not the extremists reality proves they are, but rather, mainstream anti-womeners.
CNN Got their hands on this resolution, which is being justified based on polling that shows “majority opposition” to late-term abortions. Perhaps, but then, the majority of laws Republicans have passed in order to reduce a woman’s access to safe abortion have nothing to do with late-term abortion. Reality is not impressed.
Whereas, The Democrats have waged a deceptive “War on Women” attack against Republican pro-life candidates, demonizing them and manipulating American voters;
Whereas, The Republican Party is proud to stand up for the rights of the unborn and believe all Americans have an unalienable right to life as stated in The Declaration of Independence;
Whereas, Pro-life Republicans should fight back against deceptive rhetoric regardless of those in the Republican Party who encourage them to stay silent;
Whereas, Candidates who stay silent on pro-life issues do not identify with key voters, fail to alert voters to the Democrats’ extreme pro-abortion stances, and have lost their elections;
(Read the full resolution at CNN.)
Oh, yes. They are going to take back this “false war on women”, RNC spokeswoman Kirsten Kukowski told CNN. They will point the finger at Democrats and accuse them of being the real extremists, because late term abortion is the new Benghazi. If you say it enough, no one will remember reality.
The truth is that no one is “pro abortion”. Rational people have determined that sometimes abortions are necessary medically and ultimately they are a medical decision that is best made by a woman, her doctor, and her family. Rational people realize that they don’t want to set a precedent where the state makes medical decisions for citizens, because this is hardly “freedom”.
Rational people realize that if personhood were law per the GOP platform, their real stance would be that a fetus has MORE rights than a woman. This is a super fail of an argument, PR wise, and hence, they will avoid it at all costs and instead focus on late term abortion, accompanied with gruesome images. Republicans would like to focus on late term abortion because it polls well to do so, but that is not the area where they differ with Democrats or most of the country.
The problem with denying the War on Women is that the War on Women isn’t an idea or an accusation. It’s a fact, backed up by a historical onslaught of freedom-reducing legislation, accompanied with women-hating language, including comparing women to farm animals and trying to get neighbors to “report” on women who have a miscarriage, along with a complete failure to understand the female body. From forced unnecessary ultrasounds to being told to make lemonade out of rape lemons to being assured that women don’t need access to abortion even in the case of rape because if it’s real rape, the body shuts that down, Republicans have made utter fools of themselves on women’s issues over the past three years.
There are women in jail in America for having a miscarriage, thanks to Republicans “pro women” policies.
By all means, Republicans should discuss their position on abortion MORE, not less. This is a winning strategy, because while they are losing women voters due to their neanderthal ideas of women’s rights, if they explain this to women MORE, the dummies will finally get it.
Republicans want to take women back to unsafe, back alley abortions that kill them because they are PRO WOMEN. Republicans are against the things that are proven to actually reduce abortions, like birth control and education. But once a woman gets pregnant, they want to make sure she has no say over her own medical decisions – and indeed, if she’s raped, she and her partner will be forced to carry to term. If Republicans really cared about abortion, of course, they would not be going all out to make sure Planned Parenthood loses funding and health insurance won’t cover birth control.
But then, birth control and education have been proven to reduce unwanted pregnancies, and as you might have gathered by now, Republicans don’t do reality.
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