The Left has made the argument that the Right is targeting women's rights like never before. The record numbers of anti-abortion bills, the attacks on Planned Parenthood, the highly invasive ultrasound probes that have earned Virginia's Governor Bob McDonnell the nickname "Governor Vaginal Probe" and dozens of other issues that affect primarily women have been put forth by both Federal and State Republican legislators. See list below. So, what do you attribute all the Republican sponsored anti-women’s legislation to if it is not a slap at women and how can this possibly work out well for them? · Every GOP Senator voted AGAINST Equal Pay for Women Act. · Every GOP Senator voted AGAINST Al Franken's Anti-Rape Amendment. · Every GOP member vote FOR Anti-Safe Abortion Legislation. · Every GOP member vote FOR Blunt/Rubio Anti-Women's Equal Health Coverage Amendment. While Blunt/Rubio Amendment does not allow employer to deny men employee health coverage for Vasectomy, the Blunt/Rubio Amendment allows Employer to deny female employees & female dependents: contraception, tubes tied, and hysterectomies. · GOP Redefine Rape. · GOP write legislation to probe metal prongs up a woman's vagina. · GOP change legal term for victims of rape, stalking, and domestic violence to "accuser". · GOP write legislation that could make it legal to murder a doctor who provides abortion care. (South Dakota GOP) · GOP write legislation to cut nearly a billion dollars of aid to low-income pregnant women, mothers, babies, and kids. · GOP write legislation that would let hospitals allow a woman to die rather than perform an abortion necessary to save her life. · GOP write law cutting ALL funding for low-income kids saying "Women should really be home with the kids, not out working. (Maryland) · GOP Cut Funding for Head Start, by $1 Billion. · Two-thirds of the elderly poor are women: GOP write Bill to CUT funding for employment services, meals, and housing for senior citizens. · GOP Candidates for President vow and pledge to Cut Funding for Planned Parenthood. · GOP voted for an Amendment to cut all federal funding from Planned Parenthood health centers. · GOP write Bill to eliminate all funds for Federal Family Planning Program. · GOP Write Bill to Provide Contraception for wild horses but ENDS all Federal Funding for Family Planning, including contraception coverage. (Dan Burton(R)) · GOP Jan Brewer (R- AZ) Republican Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Thursday signed one of the most controversial and restrictive abortion bans in the country, which experts say effectively bans abortions after 18 weeks and declares that a woman could be pregnant 2 weeks before she even had sex. States passed 83 laws restricting access to abortion, nearly four times the 23 laws passed in 2010. A lot of that had to do with the 2010 elections, which ushered in a wave of Republican legislators and governors. This year, the number of states with fully anti-abortion governments — in which both the governor and the legislature oppose abortion rights — increased from 10 to 15.
Of course they deny that they have a unified effort to undermine women but none of them can defend ALL of the anti-woman legislation we have seen in the past TWO YEARS!!! Nor can they come up with a reason why so many anti-women bills have suddenly surfaced especially in the states with all Republican legislatures and Republican governors. Talk about self-imposed blindness.