Message #2939

[kentay]

The GOP war on women continues
August 01, 2012

Our view: Republican effort to limit DC abortion rights reveals that for all the talk of limited government and a focus on fiscal restraint, limiting women's choice, even to the victims of **** and incest, remains high on the party's agenda

There has always been something truly unseemly about the desire of conservatives in Congress to assert their control over the residents of the District of Columbia. Not only because it represents a white and male-dominated culture forcing its values on a city of more than 617,000 (more than half of whom are black and an even higher percentage female), but it runs so blatantly counter to the GOP's alleged preference for a hands-off federal government.

Tuesday's vote by the House of Representatives over a proposed ban on abortion for all District women after 20 weeks of pregnancy, even those who are the victims of **** and incest, surely represents a new low for this plantation mentality. The measure lost but only because at 220-154, it lacked the two-thirds majority required under a suspension of the rules, a curious use of procedure by Republican leadership that limited debate and assured supporters they'd accomplish only a show vote for the benefit of anti-abortion supporters.

What's the point of posting this crude agitprop?

It's the street noise among the women I know, they are fed up with GOP controls on women when they themselves are the ones needing the control placed on them. Kentay