{"id":7819,"date":"2012-05-20T10:58:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T17:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7819"},"modified":"2012-05-20T10:58:29","modified_gmt":"2012-05-20T17:58:29","slug":"the-republican-war-on-women-is-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/20\/the-republican-war-on-women-is-real\/","title":{"rendered":"The Republican War on Women is Real"},"content":{"rendered":"

House Speaker John Boehner, aka Agent Orange<\/font>, has said that the Republican War on Women is a Democratic myth.  Presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Willard Romney, aka Switch Hit Mitt, claims that the Republican party is extremely pro woman.  Have a load of that to fertilize your veggies.  The Republican War on Women is real.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"20WoW\"Despite the persistent gender gap in opinion polls and mounting criticism of their hostility to women\u2019s rights, Republicans are not backing off their assault on women\u2019s equality and well-being<\/strong>. New laws in some states could mean a death sentence for a pregnant woman who suffers a life-threatening condition. But the attack goes well beyond abortion, into birth control, access to health care, equal pay and domestic violence. <\/p>\n

Republicans seem immune to criticism. In an angry speech last month, John Boehner, the House speaker, said claims that his party was damaging the welfare of women were \u201centirely created\u201d by Democrats. Earlier, the Republican National Committee chairman, Reince Priebus, sneered that any suggestion of a G.O.P. \u201cwar on women\u201d was as big a fiction as a \u201cwar on caterpillars.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n

But just last Wednesday, Mr. Boehner refuted his own argument by ramming through the House a bill that seriously weakens the Violence Against Women Act<\/strong>. That followed the Republican push in Virginia and elsewhere to require medically unnecessary and physically invasive sonograms before an abortion, and Senate Republicans\u2019 persistent blocking of a measure to better address the entrenched problem of sex-based wage discrimination. <\/p>\n

On Capitol Hill and in state legislatures, Republicans are attacking women\u2019s rights in four broad areas\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <NY Times<\/a>><\/p>\n

Those four areas are Abortion, access to health care, equal pay and domestic violence.  I urge you to click through to the source article for how Republicans pursue their war on women in each of those four areas.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

House Speaker John Boehner, aka Agent Orange, has said that the Republican War on Women is a Democratic myth.  Presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Willard Romney, aka Switch Hit Mitt, claims that the Republican party is extremely pro woman.  Have a load of that to fertilize your veggies.  The Republican War on Women is real. Despite […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}