How Do You Spell Misogynist? R-Y-A-N

[Scuba]

Coverage thanks to Cognitive Dissidence.


Thanks to Sandra Fluke, we now have a comprehensive list of the misogynistic laws support and/or sponsored by Ryan.

• Ryan voted for a bill referred to as the “Let Women Die Bill” because it proposed to allow hospitals to refuse a woman emergency abortion care, even if her life was in immediate danger. Currently, a federally funded hospital is required to provide at least enough care for a patient to be stabilized so that she doesn’t die and can be transferred to another hospital. The bill Ryan voted for meant that hospitals wouldn’t even have had to do that.

• Ryan co-sponsored a federal personhood bill. That bill declared a fertilized egg that hasn’t even resulted in a pregnancy to be the equivalent of a living person, with all of the rights of federal law. As a result, aspects of in vitro fertilization procedures and some forms of contraception would be criminalized, as would operations to save a woman’s life in the case of dangerous ectopic pregnancies that cannot be carried to term.


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• Ryan co-sponsored a bill that would deny many rape victims on Medicaid access to abortion. That bill proposed to cut off access through federally-funded programs for victims who were drugged or threatened, some victims of incest, and victims of statutory rape.

• Ryan voted repeatedly to prevent our female military service-members from using their own private money to pay for abortion at a military hospital. He also voted for legislation to allow bans on abortion coverage in the new state health-insurance exchanges, even for women paying with their own money.

Other Ryan votes:

• No on the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.

• Yes to cut off Title X family planning programs.

• Multiple votes to end all funding for Planned Parenthood’s non-abortion services.

• And don't forget where he stands on Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, and every other social services that might help women.

[HopeHoops]

1. Mass Protest: Any pregnant woman should add an "as yet to be named" zygote to 1040 Sec. 6-C.

If a fertilized egg has all the rights of federal law, then it qualifies as a dependent.

[tavalon]

2. Good one!

[HopeHoops]

3. I keep saying this. A conservative estimate is that a woman has 6 fertilized eggs in her each year.

Well, a sexually active one. There should be an automatic 6 deductions ($22,200 at the current rate) for every woman who checks a box saying "Are you sexually active?"

The GOP wants it both ways. If life begins at conception, the tax law applies equally with any other laws. Most zygotes never implant. I say split the difference and go with six. That would make section 6-C a little simpler.

[flamingdem]

4. The only good thing about Rush

is how his comments pushed Sandra into the spotlight, yay!

[GallopingGhost]

5. I actually overheard a woman

saying Ryan "looks like such a nice young man."

Great. I don't give a damn if he looks like Teddy Ruxpin in a three-piece; voters need to study what their congresspeople are voting for (or against)