My point then and today is we have to believe that we will prevail over Trump. Otherwise, we may as well start eating borscht and chanting “MAGA”.
All of this, I mean all of it, is about defeating our minds and our spirits. The moment we give up on America, we give in to Donald Trump.
When a conspiracy theorist is elected President of the United States, these are the things you can expect to happen.
It is particularly noteworthy to mention that while then-Senator Jeff Sessions blatantly committed perjury under oath before the Senate, he did so with impunity and protection of his Republican cohorts. A woman who dared laugh faces prison time.
Trumpcare takes us back to the days before Obamacare, when rape and abuse victims were afraid to report the crime because they didn’t want to lose their health insurance.
Who does that help? It helps the criminal.
This bill wasn’t written with the intent to protect or govern on the side of the woman. It was written to save fetuses.
“I wanted to make sure she was going to the right place. Because in times like these, you can never be too careful.”
“Republicans want to provide extremists with a road map to every woman in the state who’s exercised her constitutional right to choose.”
Even in extremely dangerous pregnancies, Doctors are forbidden to induce labor because Texas considers it an abortion
While Americans focus on the primaries, Republicans are eliminating women’s rights.
The GOP is opposed to providing for the general welfare of anyone but corporations, the filthy rich, and especially the extremely religious
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.
Republicans claim their abominable legislation overturning a Washington D.C. anti-discrimination statute that prohibited religious employers from punishing women who use birth control, family planning services, or abortion services was to protect employers’ religious liberty according to the Hobby Lobby ruling. However, they revealed the legislation is about using religious tyranny to control women.
This week a story in Georgia illustrates just how dangerous religious tyranny posing as religious freedom can be to the health of women.
The crux of South Carolina’s argument in support of discriminating against gays is that if it constitutionally permissible to discriminate against women, then it is perfectly legal to discriminate against gays.
One day people will wake up and wonder why they can no longer get the pill in their state, let alone an abortion. They can thank a Republican for the RFRA.
It is why although the law appears only to target the LGBT community and allow the ‘faithful’ to legally punish same-sex marriage partners by refusing to hire, serve, or provide them with medical care, it is important to remember there is no mention of gays in the law.
Now, the Republicans’ first order of business with Mitch McConnell sharing Senate Majority Leader duties with Ted Cruz is precisely what they did when they won the House majority in 2010; attack women’s right to choose when they give birth.
To accomplish their goal of controlling the government, the Koch brothers have had to climb in bed with fundamentalist Christians intent on using the government to control and subvert women’s rights.
It appears nothing short of an outright ban, and criminalization, of all forms of birth control will satisfy the United States Council of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).
Karl Rove and other Republicans needed to commission a poll to tell them that women see Republicans as “intolerant,” “lacking in compassion,” and “stuck in the past.”
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.
The inspiration for Hobby Lobby, and 71 other “religious” corporations, to sue for a religious exemption of the contraception mandate is not about abortion, but about controlling women and inflicting consequences for not adhering to their Puritanical belief that women in their employ, can not, and will not, have sexual relations without paying a heavy price.
As Republicans celebrate, congressional Democrats are fighting back with a statement that said in part, “If the Supreme Court isn’t willing to protect women’s rights, House Democrats will.”
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 latest Republican to introduce legislation attacking women’s right to choose is Senator Lindsey Graham who attempted to bypass a committee and asked for unanimous consent to bring the “Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act” up for a vote.
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.
Republicans began 2014 the same way they started the past three years; working solely for their special interests’ campaign donations and against the American people.
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.
This is 21st century America and absurdity borne of religion is on the ascendance and on the cusp of legally policing morality.
In their blood lust to withhold healthcare, coupled with their sheer hatred for the Affordable Care Act, Republicans revealed that they hate the unborn at the same level they hate women and children.
The Koch brothers have given millions upon millions of dollars to anti-choice organizations using what is known as pass-through groups.
The ongoing war against the ACA by Republican messiah Ted Cruz is an attack on women that he enlisted ALEC’s assistance to continue.
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.
In Congress and Republican-controlled states, and instead of decrying the loss of choice, Democrats dance around the issue out of fear of retribution from evangelical extremists.
Republicans complain about government interference in our lives, all the while trying to turn America into one of the most repressive countries on earth.
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.
In short, this is a story about the Catholic Churches priorities. Dogma trumps the constitution and dollars trump dogma.
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.
Buried deep in Ryan’s latest Fetus Rights Bill is a section that will allow a rapist to sue his victim in order to stop her from getting an abortion.
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.
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.
If Republicans are attempting to make an impression on voters, they are reveaing themselves as mean-spirited with no love for the American people or this country.
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.
The Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act has already expired and with just weeks left to go before Congress goes home, may not be passed thanks to House Republicans.
As Lipstick Liberal reports, conservatives are willing to take anyone prisoner in this war on women – including Stephen Colbert.
Women’s reproductive rights in Mississippi are hanging by a thread much to the delight of conservative politicians.
Republicans claim they want smaller government, but they are panting to impose their bible ideology on women with the full authority of the law.
Although this Pulpit Freedom Sunday has been going on for three years, the event has taken on new dimensions with the Republican majority in the House of Representatives embracing an extreme agenda.
After Senate Republicans rejected the Fair Pay Act, women and their supporters have stepped up their actions to make Republicans pay in November.
Regardless of how a doctor, nurse, or pharmacist feels about homosexuality, or pregnant women, their religious beliefs or bigotry does not give them the right to hand down a death sentence.
Republicans, Tea-Partiers, Conservative Americans, I’m talking to you today from the front lines of Republican War on Women, where an American Hero has been taken prisoner of that war!
Republicans have enlisted religious fanatics to forward their dangerous agenda by instilling fear that Democrats are waging a war on religious freedom.
Fox News has increased its attacks on and demonization of women by embracing and spreading the collective right wing hallucination that gendercide is running rampant in the United States.
Now you can make decisions for a uterus stuck in a woman’s body, and you don’t even have to know the woman hosting the uterus.
Don’t wish me a Happy Mother’s Day, and then expect me to behave as a slave, silent and in the background.
All women have to do to emphatically support Obama in 2012 is compare his policies to the Romney and the Republicans, but here are 7 reason why the president is the obvious choice.
In Arizona, Republicans in the state legislature and governor’s mansion have taken their anti-Christian agenda to a new level by denying poor women from receiving preventative healthcare screenings.
Those nut jobs pushing Personhood amendments around the country got slapped down again today, this time by the Oklahoma Supreme Court.
Women are not sitting idly by hoping the Republican assault will subside, and the GOP is going to pay in the general election.
Since House Republicans are losing the war on women, they are holding 7.4 million student loans hostage to inflict the most damage on women who coincidentally outnumber men enrolled in college.
New Hampshire Republicans working with the Catholic Church figured they could take away a few more rights from women and no one would care. They were wrong.
Refusing to be held accountable for his attack on Sandra Fluke, Rush Limbaugh has instead blamed the War On Women on Bill Maher.
It isn’t possible for Mitt Romney to shake the Etch-A-Sketch hard enough to make the nation’s women forget the attacks on their rights this year.
We are told Mitt Romney cares about “moms” because he thinks being a mom is a job. However, in January, Mr Etch A Sketch said poor women needed to “go to work” outside of the home in order to have dignity.
“Moms Do Work”…this is the newly created bumper sticker phrase manufactured by the Mitt Romney campaign on the heels of comments that flew back and forth this past week over an irresponsibly careless remark by a democratic strategist. (It also eerily reminds me of one of Bush, Jr.s infamous remarks, “Childrens do learn”). A virtual explosion of faux…
Sensing that the Republicans are on the run, President Obama mounted a counterattack against the war on women by explaining why this war isn’t just a women’s issue.
CNN’s Dana Loesch took to her radio show today to work herself into a lather where she accused Democrats of “using women as prostitutes for votes” before she called liberals “latter day fascists.”
Women have pushed back against the Republican war against their health and reproductive decisions by giving President Obama record levels of support.
In response to the patriarchal treatment of our bodies as property, here is sample legislation based upon licensing & property laws, demanding that men pay for “licensing, use and maintenance of our bodies & the offspring we create.”
Republicans in various states are on a rampage to restrict contraception and healthcare services to low-income women based on their extremist ideology.
We women are told to relax about the War on Women, but the war via Virginia’s transvaginal ultrasound bill has spread to Pennsylvania.
Women on the right have been curiously silent during an assault on life and liberty that shows no sign of abating.