September 17, 2015

The GOP against the rest of us: Family values

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signed a budget that cut funding for Planned Parenthood, after pushing the measure through the state Legislature without a single Democratic vote. Planned Parenthood denounced the decision to choke off state and federal funding to nine health centers in small communities that will deny preventative health care to 12,000 women who don't have health insurance.
Louisiana State Rep John Labruzzo (R) has introduced "feticide" legislation to ban all abortion in his state and sentence women and doctors who violate the ban to 15 years hard labor.
GOP wants details of abortions on tax returns

Willie Geist, MSNBC - Are you willing to hold up this entire budget over defunding Planned Parenthood?. . . .Rep Mike Pence R-IN - Of course I am.
A Republican state legislator in Georgia doesn't like the term rape "victim." In fact, he has introduced a bill mandating that state criminal codes refer to these people as, simply, "accusers" -- until there's a conviction in the matter.. .
173 GOP congress members want to weaken definition of rape

1 comment:

Anita said...

I keep wondering how all these women who are needing abortions got pregnant. Maybe these legislators could create commissions to discover the cause of all these unwanted pregnancies. Who knows? Maybe they would find that there have been so many more immaculate conceptions than we ever imagined--or maybe, along with all the women who don't want to be mothers, we'll find a whole bunch of men who don't want to be fathers. But, they never get talked about, and if they had been more careful with their seed....there would have been no problem pregnancy.