{"id":9480,"date":"2012-11-15T09:38:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T17:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9480"},"modified":"2012-11-15T09:38:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T17:38:03","slug":"misogyny-republicans-unchanged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/15\/misogyny-republicans-unchanged\/","title":{"rendered":"Misogyny: Republicans Unchanged"},"content":{"rendered":"

A blind man could see that the Republican War on Women had a devastating effect on their popularity in the run-up to last Tuesday.  Considering the effects, only a mindless ideologue would double down on such costly policies.  Sadly, the new GOP is the same as the old GOP.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"15Get-out-of-my-panties\"After a lengthy and heated hearing, an Ohio bill meant to defund Planned Parenthood cleared<\/a> a House committee on Wednesday by an 11-9 vote along party lines. House Bill 298, ostensibly about re-prioritizing federal family planning money, seeks to strip $1.7 million from Planned Parenthood clinics in the state<\/strong>. According to Planned Parenthood Ohio CEO Stephanie Knight, nearly 100,000 Ohio women<\/a> depend on the organization for health care \u2014 overwhelmingly for preventative care including cancer screenings and birth control<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"barefoot\"As Innovation Ohio notes<\/a>, just two Planned Parenthood affiliates out of 36 family planning organizations received the federal grants in question, undermining the bill\u2019s false pretense that other organizations are being overlooked in favor of Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n

Every single medical professional present testified against the bill<\/strong>. Dr. Grant Morrow of Nationwide Children\u2019s Hospital decried HB 298 as the result of a \u201cpolitical agenda\u201d that would have a devastating impact, primarily on poor and young women. Planned Parenthood is frequently a punching bag for many conservative politicians, despite the fact that abortions comprise only 3 percent<\/a> of services provided by the women\u2019s health organization. And as Dr. Kimberley Shepherd, a Columbus-based OB-GYN, testified during the hearing, defunding Planned Parenthood in Ohio would jeopardize cancer prevention screenings, STI care, hypertension testing, and many of the preventative measures the organization provides to low-income women<\/strong>\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Ed Schultz covered the story with Nina Turner.<\/font><\/p>\n

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From a political perspective, we should be grateful that Republicans are so clearly contributing to their own demise, but in the meantime, it is critically important to preserve women\u2019s rights and access to health care.  That means forcing Republicans from between women\u2019s legs.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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