Republican Lindsey Graham Attempts To Steal Women’s Rights Without Even a Vote In The Senate

[babylonsister]

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/05/21/republican-lindsey-graham-attempts-steal-womens-rights-vote-senate.html

Republican Lindsey Graham Attempts To Steal Women’s Rights Without Even a Vote In The Senate
By: Rmuse
Wednesday, May, 21st, 2014, 3:39 pm

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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. Graham also demanded that the Senate vote on a pro-women’s right bill that he vehemently opposes because he wants a record of how senators vote on each bill. Graham’s bill bans abortions after 20 weeks because of a bizarre idea the developing organism feels pain. According to Graham, “We already have laws banning abortion after 24 weeks. The reason we’re backing it up four weeks is because at 20 weeks, people have been born and survived, and I know two twins who were born at 20 weeks.”

Medical studies and research reveal that Graham is a liar, and real medical professionals have set tenuous fetal viability a 24 weeks. Even then the mortality rate is over 44% and requires extremely invasive medical intervention to ensure survival. Graham’s bill did not include any exceptions for severe fetal or maternal health problems discovered later in a pregnancy that reveals he is not concerned with fetal health and only concerned with controlling women’s reproductive health choices. It is likely Graham subscribes to the religious right and personhood advocates’ contention that since the moment of conception is a living human being, something their bible’s god refutes, even a zygote experiences pain and can survive outside the womb; the definition of a baby. But that is not really the point. The point is Republicans continue interfering with women’s reproductive choices and know better when a woman should start a family than she does and will use taxpayer time and money to prove it. To get a better idea what Graham really thinks of women, it is worth looking at the other bill Graham demanded a vote on and why he and every other Republican opposes it.

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had a different take on why Graham wanted to circumvent the regular legislative process to protect a fetus and deny women the right to make their own reproductive health choices such as when they give birth. Reid said, “As we know, he’s got a difficult primary down there, and he keeps moving further and further to the right. That’s what this is all about.” That may be the case, but it does not explain the myriad other anti-choice, ant-women’s rights measures Republicans introduce when there is no “difficult primary” or impending election. Republicans have never let up in their war on women and they have no intention to because they are patriarchal cretins beholden to the religious right’s belief that women are to be submissive to a man, particularly Christian men in positions of power they assert have the right to control women’s bodies and decide when they give birth.

Lindsey Graham is a typical Republican and no different than the freaks-of-nature who made outlandish statements concerning rape and contraceptive use. As Senator Blumenthal noted, Graham’s bill does nothing to protect women or their health, but then again Republicans have not proposed or supported any legislation that protects, or helps, any American because their purpose in serving in Congress is protecting the rich and fetuses and restricting women’s medical choices like typical Christian patriarchs.

[GeorgeGist]

1. Oh gracious Lindsey ...

your such a cad. Teehee.

[okaawhatever]

2. K & R nt

[lpbk2713]

3. The Democratic process can be such a bother to him some times.

What a dipshit.

[theHandpuppet]

4. What's truth got to do with it?

When it comes to women's reproduction rights, nothing. Graham is just another in the long list of lying, anti-choice shitbags for whom this issue is nothing more than a political football. What a disgusting little worm.

[blm]

5. Graham doesn't even believe this BS - just more dogandponyshow for the primaries.

Graham doesn't believe half the crap he is stuck saying because he just wants to STAY in DC and be called Senator.

[babylonsister]

7. We know that; reminds me of McCain who was

doing 360s throughout his last campaign.

[Fred Sanders]

6. Who needs science and research and medical experts when their are religious zealots to pander

to? How can any ethical person just listen to the voices in his head and ignore real medical professionals that have "set tenuous fetal viability a 24 weeks. Even then the mortality rate is over 44% and requires extremely invasive medical intervention to ensure survival." To do so is madness, the thinking of a mad man no matter the motive.

Graham does and says insane things because there are insane voters to chase and the insane media never calls him out.