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(and diaper dave, woman-hater supreme, is at it again)
Senator Introduces Four Extreme Bills Attacking Reproductive Rights
Right-wing Senator David Vitter (R-LA), who has announced that he plans to run for governor this year, introduced four bills in the Senate that represent his extreme anti-abortion and anti-reproductive health stance.
The US House last week introduced a bill to ban 20-week abortions that bill, and the four introduced by Vitter, add up to five anti-reproductive health bills introduced by Republican legislators in just the first three days of the new Congress. During midterm elections, many of these Republican senators downplayed their anti-reproductive choice views, but with the Congress having a new Republican majority, the legislation speaks volumes.
Congress has only been back for a couple of days, and already some politicians are trying to take women backwards and restricting their access to the health care that helps them and their families succeed, said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
One proposed bill requires abortion providers to get admitting privileges with a hospital nearby a law that would almost certainly close many safe clinics. Laws such as this are already in effect in several states. One bill would allow health care providers to deny a woman an abortion even in an emergency. One bill would defund family planning services, such as those of Planned Parenthood, at the federal level. And the fourth bill would ban abortions if the doctor believes the procedure was requested on the basis of the gender of the fetus.
Vitter is remembered by some by for a major prostitution scandal more than a decade ago. He has a long history of supporting legislation that would: prohibit minors from going to another state to receive abortion services, ban funding for family planning services in aid the US provides abroad, prohibit federal funds from discriminating against health providers who refuse to provide or to train for abortion services, stop funds to reduce teen pregnancy rates through education and access to contraception, require parents to be notified when their minor children get out-of-state abortions, stop human embryonic stem cell research, allow the State Childrens Health Insurance Program to apply to the unborn, restrict UN funding for policies of population control, and protect the unborn under the 14th amendment.
http://feminist.org/blog/index.php/2015/01/16/us-senate-introduces-four-anti-choice-bills/
Faux pas
(14,667 posts)NO war against women. Nothing to see here.
Faux pas
(14,667 posts)in the women's issue threads niyad, what's up with that?
niyad
(113,259 posts)Even though I'm way past the age of reproduction, I worry about every woman out there having/keeping the right to choose.
niyad
(113,259 posts)I fear for our younger sisters. we seem to be deeper in "the handmaid's tale" every single day.
They are all about eliminating reproductive rights, keeping women home barefoot and pregnant, and being good little Christian women. I just have to wonder when they'll stop letting women drive, go to the store alone, or even get an education. They are just a few steps behind the Taliban.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)These bills are religiously motivated and are nothing more than keeping the base happy at the cost of women's health and lives. The most craven political sideshow so they can claim they are actually doing something because they know it will never effect them. Fuck all of these guys!
Midnight Writer
(21,745 posts)The number one reason for abortion is poverty. Folks just can't afford the medical bills and expenses of supporting a child.
Yet they are against government health care, which would defray the costs of childbirth.
They are against food stamps, pre-natal care, public education, children's health services, SNAPS, CHIPS, school lunch programs, day care services, after hours programs such as Boy's Club and Girl's Club and after hour school programs, and now they are going after child tax credits.
If these asshats are truly religious and sincere about reducing abortion, they would support sex education, free birth control, over the counter birth control pills (including for minors) and the programs listed above.
I guarantee abortion will be reduced more than by any "Prohibition" program they come up with.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)They do not care about children or mothers. This is merely a wedge issue. The powerful don't give a crap about abortion, but they know it brings people to the polls. Trouble is, some of the new Tea Party politicians might actually believe the hype. Vitter, no way.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Because you KNOW that's where all this is going...
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)Pledging your virginity to your father. Not creepy at all.
And Quiverfull, where you have children until your uterus falls out and defer to your godly husband in every deed and thought.
The question is, I really don't know why (besides the logic dressing your wife like Children of the Corn and going pedo on your daughter).
radicalliberal
(907 posts)How morally upstanding he is!
niyad
(113,259 posts)LynneSin
(95,337 posts)I really don't think a man who cheats on his wife with a hooker has the right to judge what I do with my body.
kwolf68
(7,365 posts)did this guy get elected?