McConnell: No Vote on AG Unless GOP Gets to Force Trafficking Victims to Bear Their Rapists' Childre

[sheshe2]

For a very long time, to the appalling and righteous anger of those who value women's rights, Congress has forbidden using federal funds for abortion, with one important exception: victims of rape and incest. Congress has never before crossed the line of forcing victims of rape to bear their rapists' children for the lack of financial means. But now, Senate Republicans are poised to do just that.

But isn't this about Human Trafficking victims not being able to use federal funds (collected from fines from crimes)? What does that have to do with rape?

If you are even asking that question, you do not understand human trafficking. It's a horrific crime of terror - predominantly perpetrated on women and children - that enslaves its victims, sometimes selling them into labor, sometimes into sexual slavery. The victims have no say, they have no rights, they have no ability to consent. No victim of human trafficking - during the period of their trafficking - can be considered to have given consent for anything, let alone an act of sex. This is not to even mention that many become victims of human trafficking after suffering from the ravages of conflicts in which rape is used as a weapon of war.

Because no victim of trafficking can be considered to have given consent, all pregnancies resulting from human trafficking is therefore, by definition, a result of rape. Plain and simple. We should also note that the restitution fund is all that victims of trafficking will have aside from the clothes on their backs, and forbidding its use for abortions is trying to force these women to have the children of their rapists.

http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2015/3/16/mcconnell-no-vote-on-ag-gop-force-trafficking-victims-to-have-rapists-children

How low will the GOP go? If I had my way, it would be to the depths of hell for all eternity.

BTW, both parties are not the same, not by a long shot, just ask a woman.

[LeftishBrit]

1. Scumbags

[dhill926]

2. we gotta really hammer away at this...

shout it from the freaking rooftops come election time. Republicans are anti-women. Pure and simple...

[riversedge]

10. I just tweeted to my Repug congresscritters and willl

call them in the morning. and tweet and email them again

[sheshe2]

11. Thanks!

[still_one]

3. It says volumes about Kentucky which re-elected this creep.

[TheKentuckian]

13. Giving us both Nixon and Reagan says a lot about California

[Bryce Butler]

17. ...

Nixon was over 40 years ago, Reagan was just over 25 years ago... Mitch McConnell was re-elected last year.

[still_one]

21. You forgot to add Arnold, and yes you are correct, If it wasn't for northern or southern california

We would be as red as Kentucky

Also, the states demographics changed after Nixon ran for governor and lost. I could not vote then, but the LA and SF areas started to have more influence and turn progressive

The problem people have is they believe that California is a firm blue state, and now it mostly is during presidential elections, however, at a rally I went to several years ago for Barbara Boxer she actually described it as an independent state, and if you look at our different governors, and past senators, she has a point. Her message at that time was getting out the vote because it can't be taken for granted

Arnold was a disaster for the state financially, and it is no compliment to the state who elected him, because that is more of a reflection of the idiots in my state, and their attraction to celebrity. I suspect the same celebrity reasoning would apply to Reagan also. A lot of people were hurt by Reagan in my state, and a lot were not paying attention just how bad he was until later


Also, as progressive as some aspects of California appear today, the no vote lost on proposition 8, and that says volumes about California. Even though the proposition 8 was badly written, it essentially meant if you vote no on prop 8 it means you are for gay marriage, and I am sure some may have been confused by that wording.

California is in no hurry to legalize marajua, though they do have limited access with a doctors prescription


This last election a group of right wing interests put a proposition on the ballot to divide the state into 6 areas, a not so subtle way of gerrymandering our state. Fortunately it went down in flames


Yup, California has done some very stupid things, and sometimes they have learned from their mistakes, and sometimes they haven't

[TheKentuckian]

44. I appreciate your response to my snarky comeback. It is frustrating to fight a loathsome fuck

for decades, often swallowing shit to do it (you think Grimes is less than stellar in 2002 the party came up with a crook and he was closer) with nothing but failure to show for it only to be lumped in with what is being strive against.

It just registers as another kick in the teeth and I wanted to remind more fortunate types who live on the other side of a 60/40 or 55/45 that their shit can stink too.

[still_one]

45. Every state has got something. Your snark was well deserved, because my snark was too generalized,

thanks

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

4. Holder needs to launch investigations into each Repub senator state over something

He needs to make these racists sorry they fucked with him or her

[BlancheSplanchnik]

24. sexists. n/t

[oldandhappy]

5. And he wants his legacy to be effective governance!!

[world wide wally]

6. BFD

Then just quit whinng about Eric Holder, dirtbag

[blkmusclmachine]

7. The GOP is goosestepping into fascism. No turning back now ...

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

16. I think you're right and it's horrifying.

[Rex]

32. I just hope they don't take the rest of us with them.

They can all fall into a pit from hell and never be heard from, for all I care. I just hope they don't take us all down with them.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

47. Karma is a bitch and I think they're gonna get bit!

[brer cat]

8. Why any woman would vote

republican is totally beyond my ability to comprehend. They are vile, repugnant, pitiful excuses for humans. I keep hoping they will go far enough off the deep end that even the most ardent supporters will turn their backs.

[Shrike47]

9. All I can say is shame, shame on you, McConnell. Have you no sense of decency?

[niyad]

33. in a word, NO.

[NewJeffCT]

12. It shows their love for Eric Holder, too

methinks.

[Fred Sanders]

14. The headlines should be "Tea Party Radicals Ambush Bi-Partisan Human Trafficking Bill With Illegal Abortion Poison Pill"

And "McConnell Uses Poisoned Human Trafficking Bill to Pretend He is Not Obstructing AG Confirmation"

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

18. Not good enough for the masses - I think the original is very effective.

McConnell: No Vote on AG Unless GOP Gets to Force Trafficking Victims to Bear Their Rapists' Children

[sheshe2]

20. Thank you Elmer!

I agree.

A slightly belated welcome to DU.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

46. I know more about you than you do about me.

I was a "shadowy lurker" for quite some time before signing up. Thanks for the welcome!

[rpannier]

15. Let Susan Collins defend that

Never thought I'd say it, but I do miss Sen Hutchinson
Disliked most of her votes, but she is light years ahead of Cruz

[Thespian2]

19. Are there any humans left

who do not understand that the worst things on Earth are Republicans?

[Cha]

22. This is horrible.. I don't know how anyone can get on here and spout the "both parties are the

same" line.. unless they have some hidden agenda.

mahalo, she

[sheshe2]

25. They are not and never were Cha!

Yet, we already knew that.

for our safety and our sanity.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

23. .

No words.

[sheshe2]

26. I know Blanche...

Tears....

[BlancheSplanchnik]

27. and punching holes in walls.

[3catwoman3]

28. Two words for Senator McConnell -

FU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This man is completely vile (which also works if you spell vile backwards). He makes me sick

[sheshe2]

29. Spelled backwards...EVIL.

Thank you 3catwoman3!!!!!

Well said.

I feel like as well.

[Retrograde]

30. So, Senator Reid: tell me again why you put off the confirmation to the new Senate.

You may have had some pushback in 2014, but you were in charge then. So why did you play into McConnell's hands?

[Rex]

31. I wish this was a surprise, but this is what I expect from the party that wants

to go back to the slaving days! OF COURSE they punish enslaved victims of sexual assault. OF COURSE. Anything to make another human lifeform suffer even MORE. Anything to humiliate women and punish them for being born with a uterus.

Another reason I say and forever say both parties are vastly, vastly different on social issues. The are practically polar opposites! I tell people don't fall into the Both are the same! Just because Jon Stewart does it, does not mean you should do it too! If both parties are the same, then why didn't the ACA finally meet it's doom? 50 votes to strike it down, 50 nays from Dems. Can't be any clearer than that imo.

[sheshe2]

35. My computer keeps freezing up on me.

I have to log off then back on.

Whooosh...I am tired.

I posted this as well tonight....maybe some will get on the right track. Maybe.

Why A Self-Described ‘Redneck Republican’ Is Wearing An IUD As Jewelry



http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026373179'

One person at a time. If we can change their mind, then it is my hope we can change hundreds of minds.

[niyad]

34. I wish I believed in hell, because that is where the woman-hating scum who are going along

with this belong.

[freshwest]

36. What a powerful rebuttal of the GOP's WAR on Women and Girls worldwide!

And they don't care if the victims of sex trafficking such as those kidnapped by Boko Harum and ISIS, have no funds to escape and will be forced in the most brutal and degrading way possible to provide them with more fighters and slaves in the days to come. They are helping terrorists. But then, they are terrorists and want to make money off of war and the human misery that such actions bring. They are already on the record for refusing to sign on to a resolution against forced child marriages. They use the same logic to drag down women and children. The light at the Statue of Liberty is now gutted like a spent candle and out.

[sheshe2]

37. The light at the Statue of Liberty is now gutted like a spent candle and out.

Yes.

They are helping terrorists. But then, they are terrorists and want to make money off of war and the human misery that such actions bring. They are already on the record for refusing to sign on to a resolution against forced child marriages. They use the same logic to drag down women and children.

The light is out.

Our only hope is Obama, freshwest.


YOUR SIG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




tears, so many tears

[lovemydog]

38. 'BTW, both parties are not the same, not by a long shot, just ask a woman.'

This guy agrees!

[sheshe2]

40. A big hug and a kiss for you!!!!

lovemydog, I love you! Thank you

Best answer ever~ tears

[lovemydog]

42. Big hug & kiss right back atcha my friend!

Much love to you too!

[sheshe2]

43. thanks my friend....

yikes~! 3:30.....gotta go.

[freshwest]

39. Someone weighed in on this to say:

Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton · 6h 6 hours ago

Congressional trifecta against women today:

1) Blocking great nominee, 1st African American woman AG, for longer than any AG in 30 years…

1,847 retweets 1,980 favorites

Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton · 6h 6 hours ago

...2) Playing politics with trafficking victims…

3) Threatening women's health & rights.

1,564 retweets 1,730 favorites

But the title of your OP should be retweeted, too!

McConnell: No Vote on AG Unless GOP Gets to Force Trafficking Victims to Bear Their Rapists' Children

Heck, it should be put up on billboards and power poles and store bulletin boards!

[sheshe2]

41. Ah hell!

it is 3 am. I have to go....

If someone tweets here...please do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

freshwest.

[fadedrose]

48. The whole thing sounds like extortion

if it were concerning anything but the government.

[rhett o rick]

49. k & r. Thanks for posting. nm

[Enthusiast]

50. Fascist scum.

[Andy823]

51. K&R

This is sick, and if we don't get rid of these idiots in 2016, and if democrats don't get out and vote, it will get even worse. What kind of sick bills would they pass if they won the WH, and kept control of congress? These sicko's have to go.