Hey! Reince Preibus! THIS is your damned CULTURE WAR ON WOMEN!, 'right' here!

"Nationally, working families lose $200 billion per year because women are paid less than men for the same work. Wisconsin families lose more than $4,000 per year due to unequal pay. While women nationally earn approximately 77 cents on the dollar compared to men, here in Wisconsin women earn 75% of that earned by males." - WAWH

"What culture War? Where? We're not waging a cultural war on women? Not us...We LOVE Women!" Reince Priebus tells us (paraphrasing here).
"We're just doing this for women's own good in spite of themselves; they don't know what's best for themselves, they can't be trusted with the right to autonomy.   We're doing this in spite of what they say they want, so they can be informed...and....and....and.....and...so we can appreciate their real worth .....and....and....and....yeah, okay... We Republicans and Tea Partiers are just lying.  AGAIN."
That is what Reince Priebus should say. But no, Reince Priebus wouldn't be so honest as to say those words.
THIS IS YOUR CULTURE WAR,  PRIEBUS AND WALKER.
 IT IS REAL.
It is here, it is now.
STOP LYING about what you conservatives are doing.
We fought the feminist war for women, for all people, to be paid equally for equal work.
It is over, done, and we will not fight that battle over again.  Instead, wherever you try this bullshit, in Wisconsin, in Minnesota - yes, you tried it here too - ANYWHERE, we will rise up and throw your sorry ass out of office.
Because you are wrong.  Because you hurt people.  Because you are immoral, unjust and unfair.  Because you are oppressors, because you are dishonest lying greedy bastards.
We are the not-so-silent majority, and finally, we are uniting to vote in our own interests instead of yours and your corporate masters, you damned puppet to ALEC and the Koch Brothers and their friends.
THIS should never have seen the light of day, much less the signature of a sitting governor of any political party in the United States, or in any part of the world.  This specific legislation, and the other legislation that is NOT good for women - not abortion, not homosexuality, not contraception - is the abomination.
We the women of the United States will not be undervalued.  We will not be paid less.  We will not be treated as second class citizens for ANY characteristic or quality of identity.  That is true regardless of whether it is a quality of being human with which we are born - like gender, like sexual orientation, like race, or of qualities of autonomy and identity, like religion.
WE GET YOUR "REAL POSITION" Mitt Romney.  Lisa Murkowski "gets it".  Olympia Snowe "gets it". 
It is EMPHATICALLY NOT that the media has made a mistake.  You started a culture war, and now you are losing it.  You won a few battles, but those wins can be undone; you are losing the larger culture war.  You lost it when Glenn Beck went into well deserved obscurity, you lost it in the backlash against the misogyny of Rush Limbaugh, you lost it in the outrage over transvaginal ultrasound.
YOU are the one who has made the mistake, and you are making more of the same.
Governor Scott Walker doesn't  get it.  Candidate Mitt Romney apparently doesn't get it either.  CLEARLY Republican Chair Reince Preibus from Wisconsin doesn't get it at all; he is just lies boldfaced about waging culture war on women.  CLEARLY he thinks people are so stupid, so blinded by ideology that they will believe anything he tells them.
Perhaps that is true of your low information, gullible conservative extremists.  It emphatically is not true of the rest of us.  Clearly they will believe anything, no matter how ludicrous.
Hey, Reince, yeah you, (how many people with the name Reince are there?) perhaps you need to have it explained to you that the term 'Cheesehead' doesn't really mean the people of Wisconsin have heads filled with cheese instead of brains.  Or do the Republicans and other conservatives have cheddar craniums in your state?
Don't even try your next lie that we no longer need such laws, because women make enough money.  Women still do not have full wage equity, and NO, the progress for equality has not gone far enough yet, and we are not going to have that progress reversed by YOU.
It is time for women to stand up and push back against you.  It is time for every man who is a son, brother, husband or father to stand up for the women in their lives they love, it is time to push back against the people who would do things like this in government.
This is not about representing the women voters in this country.  This is just another example of Republicans like Scott Walker, like Reince Preibus, creating an uneven playing field for fair competition and merit.  This is just one more example of laws which make it legal and easy for corporations to pay workers less, in this case women workers, this is one more example of pro-corporation puppet passed laws that make war on the people of this country.
It is time to recall Scott Walker, Governor of Wisconsin.  It is time to recall his lieutenant governor.  It is time to recall the authors of the legislation legalizing unequal pay for work.  It is time to recall the sponsors of the legislation, and it is time to recall EVERY single legislator who voted for it, and to never let them get into office again.
THIS is the right wing overreach, the one they do every damn time they get into office, instead of delivering on their promises.
IF you think, maybe, possibly, somehow that we might be just a little bit angry at what you have done, you would be wrong.  We are VERY angry.  We are enraged and we are energized.  We will donate, we will march and protest.  MOST OF ALL, WE WILL VOTE IN EVERY ELECTION UNTIL YOU ARE GONE. 
WE WILL VOTE IN EVERY ELECTION UNTIL WE UNDO WHAT YOU HAVE DONE.
I don't think you are hearing us, I don't think you are listening to anyone but your corporate cronies.  You aren't paying attention, not yet.
But you will. 
Oh, yes, you will. 
Because if there was a single mistake you haven't made yet, an act that can unite even more people /AGAINST you, this may be it.  We are coming for you at the ballot boxes and for everyone like you, in every polling place across this country.
I'm sure you will tell us that you are not afraid.  I doubt it, but it might be true, if stupid.  It doesn't matter what you think, it doesn't matter what you feel, it doesn't matter what you do next. YOU don't matter, you will be marginalized, and disgraced in the history books as failures.  Not just as minor failures, you will go down and down and down as epic failures, as liars, as corrupt men aided by a few women.
Here's a hint, and a promise.  Your ALEC allies won't help you, no matter how much money, how many dirty tricks they use for your support.
From the Wisconsin Alliance for Women's Health :

Repeal of Equal Pay Law SB 202 / AB 289 The Equal Pay Enforcement Act became law in July 2009. The purpose of the law is to provide a stronger enforcement mechanism for violations of pay and workplace discrimination by allowing victims to plead their case in the less costly state circuit system rather than having to try to get their cases heard by federal courts. It also provides stronger penalties for employers who were found guilty of discrimination. SB 202 removes the “enforcement” from the Equal Pay Enforcement Act. This bill would repeal the ability for anyone who’s been discriminated on the job to plead their cases in circuit court.

Authors: Senators Grothman, Galloway, Darling, Lasee, Kedzie, Zipperer and Moulton. SB 202 / AB 289 SB 202 History / Equal Pay Enforcement Act SB 165 SB 165 seeks to secure equal pay for the thousands of working families who are denied fair pay due to wage discrimination based on race and gender. Nationally, working families lose $200 billion per year because women are paid less than men for the same work. Wisconsin families lose more than $4,000 per year due to unequal pay. While women nationally earn approximately 77 cents on the dollar compared to men, here in Wisconsin women earn 75% of that earned by males. (emphasis added is mine - DG) Wisconsin Women and Economic Opportunity Report (COWS) Behind the Pay Gap Report (AAUW)

<> From the Journal Sentinel, JSOnline:  Walker signs bevy of bills into law

51 pieces of legislation include abortion issues, sex education

By Patrick Marley and Jason Stein of the Journal Sentinel

Madison - Gov. Scott Walker has signed bills putting new restrictions on abortion, requiring schools that teach sex education to promote marriage and barring those who are discriminated against at work from suing for punitive damages in state court.
Democrats blasted Walker and his fellow Republicans in the Legislature for advancing policies that they say amount to a "war on women."
"He might have thought none of us are watching because it's Good Friday, but all of us women are watching," said former Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk, one of four Democrats competing to run against Walker in a June 5 recall election.
Walker spokesman Cullen Werwie declined to comment Friday on why the governor backed the four bills, which were among 51 pieces of legislation he signed late Thursday. His office announced the signings Friday.
Walker also signed a bill requiring lawmakers to disclose who is sponsoring budget earmarks and a measure to prevent voucher schools programs from automatically expanding to Green Bay and other cities.
The new laws would:

• Require schools that teach sex education to promote marriage and tell students that abstinence is the only reliable way to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. The change in law also allows public schools to teach abstinence-only courses, which had been barred since 2010 under a law Democrats approved when they controlled state government.
• Prevent people subjected to employment discrimination from seeking punitive and compensatory damages in state court.
• Require doctors to consult with patients face-to-face - rather than via Web camera - when administering abortion-inducing drugs. That measure would also require doctors to speak privately with women seeking abortions to ensure they were not being coerced, and physicians could face felonies for ignoring the law.
• Prohibit insurance plans offered in Wisconsin under the federal health care reform law from covering some abortions.

The federal health care law, approved in 2010 by Democrats, requires states to set up exchanges that serve as marketplaces for individuals and small businesses for insurance coverage that for some consumers is subsidized by taxpayers. Under the law signed by Walker, plans offered through Wisconsin's exchange could cover abortions only in cases of sexual assault, incest and the health or life of the woman.

Discrimination law changes

Jeff Hynes, president of the Wisconsin Employment Lawyers Association, said the change to the state's discrimination law tells employers who mistreat workers that "you can get away with it every time."
Employees who say they have suffered discrimination can file a complaint with the state Department of Workforce Development to be reinstated to their jobs and receive back pay, costs and attorney's fees.
Democrats in 2009 changed the law to allow employees or the department after that process to sue an employer in circuit court for compensatory and punitive damages. Wronged employees could receive up to $300,000, depending on the seriousness of the claims and the size of the businesses.
The law Walker approved takes away the ability to go to court for compensatory and punitive damages, though people still have the ability to seek back pay.
Hynes said most cases don't involve significant back pay. He said Walker's changes mean there will be no remedy under state employment law for women who are groped at work or repeatedly face sexual advances, as well as for minorities who are subjected to racial epithets.
He noted that late last year, Walker signed a bill that puts limits on the amount of attorneys' fees victims can recover in lawsuits. That makes it even less likely that wronged employees will take their cases to state court because lawyers will be unlikely to accept even strong cases because they won't be able to get more than a fraction of their pay, he said.
"The governor and the Republican leadership in Wisconsin have effectuated a one-two punch with respect to employees' rights to get any meaningful remedy" in discrimination cases, he said.
Tom O'Day, a lawyer who represents businesses of all sizes in employment cases, said the 2009 law led to businesses paying out larger settlements to employees in cases where they did not believe they had done anything wrong because of the risk of having to pay large awards. Walker's action will free up money so employers invest in their companies and create jobs, he said.
"More than anything, this is a jobs bill," he said.
O'Day noted that wronged employees can take their cases to federal court. Hynes, the attorney for employees, said that is prohibitively expensive in most cases.
Sen. Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend), who sponsored the measure, said it puts Wisconsin in line with neighboring states.
"The old law made Wisconsin not competitive from a business perspective," he said. "To give $300,000 in punitive damages when the actual damages might be four or five thousand dollars causes Wisconsin business to pay out additional money to deal with frivolous claims."
Walker also signed a bill that prevents the state's school voucher programs from moving to new parts of the state.
The state allows qualifying students from certain areas to attend religious schools and other private institutions at taxpayer expense using vouchers that are worth about $6,400 a year.
The voucher program has been in place in Milwaukee for 20 years, and Republicans in June included a provision in the state budget that established one like it in eastern Racine County. The budget measure would have eventually allowed similar ones in other school districts such as Green Bay when they met certain criteria.
Some Republicans, led by Senate President Mike Ellis of Neenah, joined Democrats in opposing further expansions of the program, and legislative leaders reached a deal last summer to prevent Green Bay or other new cities from having voucher schools. Walker's approval locks that agreement into state law.
Walker also signed a bill to provide more transparency on earmarks in the state budget. The measure requires the Legislature's nonpartisan budget office to produce a report listing the lawmakers who request the local spending items in the budget along with what legislative districts benefit from those items.

Authors: Senator Hansen and Representative Sinicki SB 165 History of SB 165 SB 165 Lobbying Efforts It's not the right wing 'red' state flag you should be flying gentlemen - a term you do not rightly deserve.  It is the white flag of surrender.  But surrender or not, you are losing, you will lose, you will be out, gone and if you're very lucky, forgotten instead of remembered as a figure of disgrace broadly held in contempt.

How Republicans Lie to Women (and presumably lie to caterpillars as well)

"There have been a series of bizarre statements from some Republicans have made about pregnancy, rape, juices not flowing and more. Here’s one:
The odds that a woman who is raped will get pregnant are “one in millions and millions and millions,” said state Rep. Stephen Freind, R-Delaware County, the Legislature’s leading abortion foe.
The reason, Freind said, is that the traumatic experience of rape causes a woman to “secrete a certain secretion” that tends to kill sperm."

 The reference to caterpillers in the title of this post is, of course, to the claims of the Republican party that there is no culture war on women. The sad evidence to the contrary is clear, in every state, in legislation which is demeaning, hurtful and injurious, and especially insulting and degrading to women, legislation which, where it is passed, diminishes the equality of women.

The chairman of the Republican National Committee is denying that his party is waging a war on women, saying it’s as fictional as the “war on caterpillars.”In a interview that will air on Saturday, Bloomberg TV’s Al Hunt asked RNC Chairman Reince Priebus how big of a problem it was for Republicans that recent polls showed President Barack Obama with a 2-1 lead among female voters in battleground states.

“If Democrats said we had a war on caterpillars and every mainstream media outlet talked about the fact that the Republicans have a war on caterpillars then we would have problems with caterpillars,” Priebus explained. “The fact of the matter is that it’s a fiction.”

Of course, the conservatives DO treat women as inferiors, as lacking intelligence and understanding, and as irresponsible human beings who should be denied autonomy.  When it comes to reproductive issues, it is fair to say they treat women and female sexuality.  They treat women as if we are less human criminals.
Coincidentally I came across a different meaning for the word caterpillar, according to a definition from dictionary.com with which I had been unfamiliar:
2. a person who preys on others; extortioner.
Looking at the origins of the word, it sounds more like the Republican men, than all of us American women.
Origin: 1400–50; late Middle English catyrpel, probably alteration of an Old North French variant of Old French chatepelose, equivalent to chate cat ¹ + pelose hairy (≪ Latin pilōsus; see pilose); -yr probably by association with cater tomcat ( see caterwaul); final -er probably by association with piller despoiler ( see pillage, -er¹ ); compare chenille

Word Origin & History

caterpillar

c.1440, catyrpel, probably altered (by association with M.E. piller "plunderer") from Norm.-Fr. caterpilose, from O.Fr. chatepelose, lit. "hairy cat" (probably in ref. to the "wooly-bear" variety), from L.L. catta "cat" + pilosus "hair." A Swiss Ger. name for it is teufelskatz "devil's cat." Caterpillar

Bible Dictionary
Caterpillar

definition the consumer. Used in the Old Testament (1 Kings 8:37; 2 Chr. 6:28; Ps. 78:46; Isa. 33:4) as the translation of a word (hasil) the root of which means "to devour" or "consume," and which is used also with reference to the locust in Deut. 28:38. It may have been a species of locust, or the name of one of the transformations through which the locust passes, locust-grub. It is also found (Ps. 105:34; Jer. 51:14, 27; R.V., "cankerworm") as the rendering of a different Hebrew word, _yelek_, a word elsewhere rendered "cankerworm" (q.v.), Joel 1:4; 2:25. (See LOCUST.)

It is Republican legislators and political leaders, it is the conservative right, especially the religious right, that are the caterpillars, in the  sense above.  They are far more the hairy tom cats, the  ones who look at women as consumers of them rather than as full and equal people.  And they are the ones who prey on others, on women and children.   They are the 'pilles', as in pillagers and despoilers.
Not surprising; I find the right projects a lot of their faults and weakness, their worst characteristics on others.  This is true with their lies about sex, their unequal and evil treatment of women, their coercive tactics of indignity, pain and humiliation, and even endangerment.  It is a culture war waged in every state legislature, by every or nearly every Republican governor, supported by party leadership and every presidential candidate, and of course, ol' Rancid Priapus.  Women are their victims, or will be if we elect them.  It is particularly egregiously evil that there are women on the right who assist them to harm other women, vulnerable women who do not share their position of privilege.  They should be ashamed; they should be removed.
Thank you, EoK for sharing this.
There is a very real culture war being waged on women,
Cross posted with the kind permission of the Author, and occasional commenter here, Engineer of Knowledge from his blog:
9 Stupid Lies Republicans Tell About Women’s Bodies and Health Care

Just as Thomas Jefferson said, “He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.” Well it seems that the Republican Party is propagating lies and at best “half truths” to win the minds of the lesser informed for yet again this year’s National Election. There is the saying, “If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with Bull Shit.” I will simply say this truth, “If your political platform cannot withstand the “Light of Day” truth scrutiny, then it is a platform that should not be supported.”
For some this works not so much that they REALLY believe any of the inaccurate and misleading statements, but more to the fact that it just gives them the “Blind Faith” enabling reasons to bolster what they want reality to be in their sheltered world.
Below I have passed on the Conservative Republican’s Talking points for this upcoming National Election.
1. Birth Control Causes Prostate Cancer:
Last month a New Hampshire lawmaker came up with a new reason the government should not require health insurance companies to provide contraception.
“As a man, would it interest you to know that Dr. Brownstein just published an article that links the pill to prostate cancer?” state Rep. Jeanine Notter (R) asked a male representative at the hearing.
“In the children that are born from these women?” he asked. Notter could not clearly explain the study or how the pill results in prostate cancer.
The study described suggests men may ingest estrogen through environmental contamination, not in utero from mothers taking birth control.
In Truth:
The author of the study said, “This is just a hypothesis generating idea. Women should not be throwing away the pill because of this.”
2. Abortion Causes Breast Cancer:
The New Hampshire House recently passed a bill that would require doctors to tell women seeking abortions that the procedure can cause breast cancer. Here is an excerpt from the bill, sponsored by Notter:
“Materials that inform the pregnant woman that there is a direct link between abortion and breast cancer. It is scientifically undisputed that full-term pregnancy reduces a woman’s lifetime risk of breast cancer. It is also undisputed that the earlier a woman has a first full-term pregnancy, the lower her risk of breast cancer becomes, because following a full-term pregnancy the breast tissue exposed to estrogen through the menstrual cycle is more mature and cancer resistant. In fact, for each year that a woman’s first full-term pregnancy is delayed, her risk of breast cancer rises 3.5%. The theory that there is a direct link between abortion and breast cancer builds upon this undisputed foundation. During the first and second trimesters of pregnancy the breasts develop merely by duplicating immature tissues. Once a woman passes the thirty-second week of pregnancy (third trimester), the immature cells develop into mature cancer resistant cells. When an abortion ends a normal pregnancy, the woman is left with more immature breast tissue than she had before she was pregnant.”
In Truth:
There is no link between abortions and breast cancer, according to the World Health Organization, the American Cancer Society and other major health organizations. Similar provisions requiring doctors to make the abortion-breast cancer connection remain on the books in other state laws. Alaska, Kansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas all inaccurately assert a risk in written counseling materials, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a New York-based reproductive health research organization.
3. Birth Control Is A Sex Pill:
Rush Limbaugh showed he has no understanding of how birth control pills work when he attacked Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown law student barred from testifying as a Democratic witness at a congressional hearing about the Obama administration’s contraception policy. Limbaugh called Fluke a “SLUT” for needing lots of birth control to manage her sex life.
“She wants to be paid to have sex,” Limbaugh said. “She’s having so much sex she can’t afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex.”
Rick Santorum has also said that contraception encourages a bad kind of sex. Last year, in an interview with the Evangelical blog Caffeinated Thoughts, Santorum warned of the “dangers of contraception:”
“It’s not OK because it’s a license to do things in the sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be. They’re supposed to be within marriage, they are supposed to be for purposes that are, yes, conjugal, but also [inaudible], but also procreative. That’s the perfect way that a sexual union should happen. We take any part of that out, we diminish the act.”
In Truth:
Most women who have had sex have used contraception. Birth control pills — which are taken daily, regardless of how frequently a woman has sex — may also be taken to manage endometriosis, ovarian cysts, acne or other health problems. A new bill in Arizona proposes punishing women who use the pill for non-medical reasons.
4. Abortion Industry Is “Selling Abortions:”
A Republican state legislator in Arizona last week wrote in an email to a constituent that she wanted to force women seeking abortions to watch the procedure first.
“Personally I’d like to make a law that mandates a woman watch an abortion being performed prior to having a ‘surgical procedure,’” state Rep. Terri Proud (R) wrote. The constituent responded by email that she was “speechless” and after a baffling exchange with Proud, released the emails to the media. Facing national outrage, Proud issued a statement:
“For too long, Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry have placed selling abortions above the health and safety of women. My message to a constituent last week emphasized my concerns with how abortion providers have not been honest with women about the realities of abortion, and the short and long-term risks of this dangerous surgical procedure.”
In Truth:
The notion that Planned Parenthood baits women into unwanted pregnancies by providing ineffective contraception then profits off the abortions is nothing new, but it’s as outrageous as it sounds. Abortions constitute 3% of Planned Parenthood’s services, and the organization estimates it prevents more than 220,000 abortions each year by providing contraception. Because Planned Parenthood is not allowed to use federal funds for abortions, defunding the program may limit contraception services and result in more abortions.
5. Women Can’t Get Pregnant From Rape.
Just before Idaho’s Senate passed a mandatory ultrasound bill last week, bill sponsor made some startling comments about abortion and rape.
“Rape and incest was used as a reason to oppose this,” said state Sen. Chuck Winder (R). “I would hope that when a woman goes in to a physician with a rape issue, that physician will indeed ask her about perhaps her marriage, was this pregnancy caused by normal relations in a marriage or was it truly caused by a rape. I assume that’s part of the counseling that goes on.”
It wasn’t the first time a lawmaker has suggested that women seeking abortions may lie about rape. Some anti-abortion activists actually believe that rape cannot result in pregnancy. This is not unique. There have been a series of bizarre statements from some Republicans have made about pregnancy, rape, juices not flowing and more. Here’s one:
The odds that a woman who is raped will get pregnant are “one in millions and millions and millions,” said state Rep. Stephen Freind, R-Delaware County, the Legislature’s leading abortion foe.
The reason, Freind said, is that the traumatic experience of rape causes a woman to “secrete a certain secretion” that tends to kill sperm.
In Truth:
Two Philadelphia doctors specializing in human reproduction characterized Freind’s contention as scientifically baseless.
About 5% of rapes result in pregnancy, and providing all rape victims with emergency contraception could prevent more than 22,000 unwanted pregnancies a year.
6. Prenatal Testing Leads To Abortion.
Rick Santorum made prenatal testing a campaign issue last month when he declared the tests are designed to “cull the ranks of the disabled in our society” by encouraging abortions.
“Amniocentesis does, in fact, result more often than not in this country in abortions…That is a fact.”
In Truth:
In fact, more than 90 percent of amniocenteses tests result in normal diagnoses, and half of fetuses diagnosed with severe abnormalities — about 5 percent of those tested — are aborted, according to PolitiFact. A campaign spokeswoman for Obama condemned Santorum’s comments as “misinformed and dangerous” and pointed out that the tests help women have safer deliveries and healthier babies.
7. HPV Vaccine Causes Retardation.
Back when Rick Perry was campaigning for president, his rivals attacked him for signing an executive order mandating the human papillomavirus vaccine for young girls, and misinformation quickly spread. Michele Bachmann insinuated that the vaccine causes mental retardation, while Santorum spoke out against “having little girls inoculated at the force and compulsion of the government.”
In Truth:
The vaccine is safe and effective in preventing cervical cancer caused by certain strains of HPV, and Perry’s 2007 executive order, which was overturned by the state legislature, would have allowed parents to opt out of having their daughters vaccinated. Dr. Renata Arrington-Sanders, a professor at Johns Hopkins University medical school, has stated:
“The HPV vaccine has been shown to be safe and well-tolerated based on multiple medical reports that have been submitted through government databases. It’s unfortunate that this particular vaccine is surrounded by a lot of controversy just because it’s been labeled as an STD-prevention vaccine. We have similar vaccines, such as one for hepatitis B, that are also used in a mandated approach and have shown very successful rates with prevention.”
8. Plan B Causes Abortions.
The debate over the Obama administration’s contraception policy has yielded some puzzling claims about birth control and Plan B, the so-called morning-after pill. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) addressed the House in February, urging his colleagues to reverse Obama’s mandate for health insurance coverage of “abortion-inducing drugs:”
In recent days, Americans of every faith and political persuasion have mobilized in objection to a rule put forward by the Obama administration that constitutes an unambiguous attack on religious freedom in our country. This rule would require faith-based employers –- including Catholic charities, schools, universities, and hospitals -– to provide services they believe are immoral. Those services include sterilization, abortion-inducing drugs and devices, and contraception.
Michele Bachmann called Plan B an abortion pill when she incorrectly criticized Obama for making the drug available over-the-counter — an FDA recommendation the administration that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius rejected last year. “The president can put abortion pills for girls 8 years of age, 11 years of age, on the bubblegum aisle,” Bachmann said at a “pro-life” town hall in December.
In Truth:
Contraceptives, emergency or not, prevent pregnancy. They don’t cause abortions. Plan B works in the same way and with the same ingredients as birth control pills, just at a higher dosage, and does nothing to stop the development of a fetus.
9. Your Fetus Is Just Fine.
The Arizona Senate passed a bill this month to protect doctors from “wrongful birth” lawsuits — effectively allowing them to withhold information that may lead a patient to get an abortion.
In Truth:
Sen. Nancy Barto (R-Phoenix) told the Claims Journal that she sponsored the law because she did not want claimants to blame a doctor for a baby born with disabilities. Under the provisions of her bill, a doctor could not be sued for medical malpractice if the doctor withholds information from a mother about a child’s potential health issues that could influence her decision to have an abortion. In addition, a lawsuit could not be filed on the child’s behalf regarding a disability.
Kansas lawmakers have considered similar legislation.
So in summation, the Conservative Republican’s Political Platform is, “LIES, MORE LIES, OUTRAGEOUS LIES, and DAMN STUPID LIES,” because we represent the word of GOD.