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Friday, June 1st, 2012

War On Women’ Only Seen By Third Of Female Poll Respondents

Author:     GREG ROSALSKY
Source:     The Huffington Post
Publication Date:     5/31/2012 17:01
 Link: War On Women’ Only Seen By Third Of Female Poll Respondents
Stephan:   Eleven hundred -- 1,100 -- bills limiting women's reproductive rights have been introduced into the Congress and state legislators. I have read about 200 of them; you can get them from the various legislative websites. Most are modeled, sometimes word for word, on example legislative drafts written by ALEC. You cannot read these bills without concluding they are a coordinated, intentioned, purposeful attempt to limit not just the right to abortion, but to have access to contraception. Yet conservatives have understood what social progressives have not. It you tell a lie often enough, and loudly enough, a lot of people will believe you, and another large group will be confused. Here is the evidence.

Only three in ten women believe there is currently a broad-based campaign to limit their access to reproductive health care, a new poll shows.

The survey, conducted by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care research organization, found that 31 percent of women believe there is an ongoing and ‘wide scale effort to limit women’s reproductive health choices and services.’ A larger portion, 45 percent, believe that some groups are actively working against female health services, but that the effort is not quite ‘wide scale.’

The Kaiser poll follows months of controversy over recent legislative maneuvers at the federal and state levels to limit access to and funding for reproductive services for women, as well as broader spending cuts that disproportionately affect women. The poll’s findings could be an indication of the difficulty that women’s rights organizations are having in sounding an alarm about their concerns.

Terry O’Neill, president of the National Organization for Women, told The Huffington Post that since the 2010 midterm elections — when House Republicans, led by new Speaker John Boehner, began to pursue policies she characterized as against women’s interests — it has been ‘like pushing a very large rock up a very steep hill […]

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