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Monday, January 3rd, 2011

The Coming War on Women

Author:     KAILI JOY GRAY
Source:     Daily Kos
Publication Date:     Sun Jan 02, 2011 at 10:00:04 AM PST
 Link: The Coming War on Women
Stephan:   If you've been reading SR for very long you know that I am absolutely pro-choice. Not only because in the 60s I lost one friend to a back room abortion, and another almost died for the same reason but, also, because if you don't own and control your own body, you don't own anything. At the most fundamental level you can't control anything. Also because the anti-choice position is so profoundly materialistic. As if consciousness is tied only to matter. With the incoming Congress with its climate deniers, evolution deniers, and choice-deniers, we are going to see a flood of bills based on these delusions. We'll know how it is it going when we begin hearing of girls dying from back room abortions again. In the meantime it will eat up untold hours of Congressional time and attention, and clog up the process of rebuilding America.

A war is coming.

Congressional Republicans have already made clear that their top priority, once they take control of Congress in the next session, is to make sure President Obama is a one-term president.

But there is a second priority that many Republicans in Congress, and in state legislatures around the country, have promised to pursue: the further restriction of women’s reproductive rights.

As Mother Jones reported in December:

If you thought the abortion battle during the health care debate was fierce, just wait until Republicans take over the House in January. Strengthened by congressional victories in the midterm elections, Republican abortion foes plan to push hard in the new year. Their top goals: enshrine tough restrictions on abortion funding into federal law and defund Planned Parenthood.

The incoming Speaker of the House, John Boehner, is a staunch opponent of women’s reproductive rights, with a 100 percent rating from the National Right to Life Committee. In fact, last year, he received the 2010 Henry J. Hyde Defender of Life Award for his ‘extraordinary leadership in the fight to prevent taxpayer-funded abortion and for his work to protect women’s health in his own state of Ohio.

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