{"id":9168,"date":"2012-10-16T08:10:47","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T15:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9168"},"modified":"2012-10-16T08:10:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T15:10:47","slug":"women-take-heed-and-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/16\/women-take-heed-and-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Women, Take Heed and VOTE!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I remember demonstrating with feminists to give women control of their own bodies back in the 1960s.  When women finally won reproductive rights, and they became established as the cultural norm, I would not have believed that women would face the danger they face today.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"16War-On-Women\"It is no secret that Mitt Romney and his running-mate, Representative Paul Ryan, are opponents of abortion rights. When Mr. Ryan was asked at last week\u2019s debate whether voters who support abortion rights should be worried if the Romney-Ryan ticket were elected, he essentially said yes. <\/p>\n

They would depart slightly from the extremist Republican Party platform by allowing narrow exceptions for rape, incest or the life of the woman. Beyond that, they would move to take away a fundamental right that American women have had for nearly 40 years<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Mr. Romney has called for overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that recognized a woman\u2019s constitutional right to make her own childbearing decisions and to legalized abortion nationwide. He has said that the issue should be thrown back to state legislatures<\/strong>. The actual impact of that radical rights rollback is worth considering. <\/p>\n

It would not take much to overturn the Roe decision. With four of the nine members of the Supreme Court over 70 years old, the next occupant of the White House could have the opportunity to appoint one or more new justices. If say, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the oldest member, retired and Mr. Romney named a replacement hostile to abortion rights, the basic right to abortion might well not survive<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

The result would turn back the clock to the days before Roe v. Wade when abortion was legal only in some states, but not in others. There is every indication that about half the states would make abortion illegal within a year of Roe being struck down, according to the Guttmacher Institute<\/strong>. The Center for Reproductive Rights, which challenges abortion restrictions around the country, puts the number at 30 states. For one thing, abortion bans already on the books in some states would suddenly kick in. And some Republican-controlled state legislatures would outlaw abortion immediately\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The narrow exceptions that Lord Willard and Lyin\u2019 Ryan now endorse are last minute sketch-etches, deceptively made in order to make them appear moderate.  Don\u2019t count on even that.<\/font><\/p>\n

Rachel Maddow looked at how Republicans might punish women for abortion.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Ladies, Lord Willard’s boy wonder, Lyin’ Ryan, and many other Republicans would send you to jail.<\/font><\/p>\n

Ron Reiner, whose role as the meathead I remember fondly, produced an ad for women and discussed it with Lawrence O’Donnell.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Reiner says that keeping the ability to appoint Supreme Court Justices out of Republican hands is the most important reason for women to vote for Obama. It is also the duty of every man who loves women as well.  The alternative is RepubliCare.<\/font><\/p>\n

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I remember demonstrating with feminists to give women control of their own bodies back in the 1960s.  When women finally won reproductive rights, and they became established as the cultural norm, I would not have believed that women would face the danger they face today. It is no secret that Mitt Romney and his running-mate, […]<\/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-9168","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\/9168","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=9168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}