Women's rights being eroded by republicans

Should women be counseled by the state/feds before an abortion? In my opinion? Yes.

Only if they agree to it... Forcing it would be cruel and invasive

I don't generally think women are (totally) fit (because of hormones) to make those decisions and a slight "cool down" period is necessary.... a couple days...

People who think but don't think.

Is that so true about so many things that Americans do, Rex?

#3 Women's Rights under siege:

The Top 10 shocking attacks on women by the New Republican Party (The New Reich Wing Party). (NOT a misspelling).
•1. Republicans not only want to reduce women's access to abortion care, they are actually trying to redefine rape. After a major backlash, they promised to stop. But they have not stopped.
•2. A state legislator in Georgia wants to change the legal term of victims of rape, stalking and domestic violence to "accuser." !! But victims of other less gendered crimes, like burglary, would remain "victims."
•3. In South Dakota, Republicans proposed a bill that could make it legal to murder a doctor who provides abortion care {THIS IS NO JOKE, FOLKS}
•4. Republicans want to cut nearly a billion dollars of food and other aid to low-income pregnant women, mothers, babies and kids.
•5. In congress, Republicans have proposed a bill that would let hospitals allow a woman to die rather than perform an abortion necessary to save her life.
•6. Maryland Republicans ended all county money for low-income kids' preschool program. Why? No need, they said. Women should really be home with the kids, not out working. !!
•7. And at the federal level, Republicans want to cut that same program, Head Start, by $1 billion. That means over 200,000 kids could lose their spots in preschool.
•8. two-thirds of the elderly poor are women, and Republicans are taking aim at them too. A spending bill would cut funding for employment services, meals, and housing for senior citizens.
•9. Congress voted February 18, 2011 on a Republican amendment to cut all federal funding from Planned Parenthood health centers, one of the most trusted providers of basic health care and family planning in our country.
•10. And, if that wasn't enough, Republicans are pushing to eliminate all funds for the only federal family planning program (for humans). But Republican Dan Burton has a bill to provide contraception for wild horses. (You just can't make this stuff up)

House Republicans were able to pass an amendment by Rep. Mike Pence that would eliminate all federal funding to Planned Parenthood clinics. The amendment further reduced support for women's health care in a spending resolution that, if passed, would also eliminate all title X family planning funds. Title X clinics provide everything from annual exams and cancer screenings to contraceptive services and treatment of sexually transmitted infections.

No pregnant students are welcome at Delhi Charter School in Delhi, Louisiana — a policy that the institution enforces by requiring students who are “suspected” of being pregnant to submit to a mandatory pregnancy test.

If students are pregnant, they are no longer allowed to attend classes on the school’s campus and will be forced to either switch to another school or begin a home school program. If a student refuses to take the test, she is “treated as a pregnant student” and also kicked out of Delhi Charter School, according to the student handbook:


If an administrator or teacher suspects a student is pregnant, a parent conference will be held. The school reserves the right to require any female student to take a pregnancy test to confirm whether or not the suspected student is in fact pregnant. The school further reserves the right to refer the suspected student to a physician of its choice. If the test indicates that the student is pregnant, the student will not be permitted to attend classes on the campus of Delhi Charter School.

If a student is determined to be pregnant and wishes to continue to attend Delhi Charter School, the student will be required to pursue a course of home study that will be provided by the school…Any student who is suspected of being pregnant and who refuses to submit to a pregnancy test shall be treated as a pregnant student and will be offered home study opportunities. If home study opportunities are not acceptable, the student will be counseled to seek other educational opportunities.

The American Civil Liberties Union points out that Dehli Charter School’s discriminatory policy for pregnant students is “in blatant violation of federal law and the U.S. Constitution.” On Monday, the ACLU of Louisiana and the ACLU Women’s Rights Project sent a letter to the school asking it to suspend its policy, on the grounds that New Delhi Charter School’s unfair treatment of its pregnant students violates the following laws:

•Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, for excluding students from educational programs based on sex.

•The Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution, for treating female students differently than their male peers, as well as stereotyping “suspected” pregnant studies on the basis of their gender.

•The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment that recognizes the right to procreate as well as the right to decide whether to terminate a pregnancy, for targeting students in a way that appears to stigmatize pregnancy.

Aside from its unconstitutional premise, the charter school’s policy toward pregnant students is also furthering a serious education gap between teen mothers and the young women who do not have unplanned pregnancies. Thirty percent of all teen girls who drop out of high school cite pregnancy as the main reason. And a full 70 percent of teenage girls who give birth end up leaving school — although if New Delhi Charter School had its way, that statistic might be closer to 100 percent.

I am saying that once a guy and a girl start a baby what happens should not be up to the girl alone. She decided to open her legs and she took the risk that a baby could be started when she decided to remain fertile....she got to the point of loosing full control of her reproductive system through her own choices.

Rickoshay75 wrote:

That's just the way Republicans are and have always been. And even if the blatant insult to young women kills their election plans, they won't let up, as evidenced by their leader, Limbaugh --- never give in, never give up

A more fair person would say that is is clear through their behavior that Rebubs believe in the values that they claim to believe in. But no, you need to put a negative spin on it.