The War on Women

sue-kennedy   |   Thu, Feb 23, 2012 9:52 AM EST

The Religious Conservatives have tipped their hand. Yes, they convinced many unsuspecting they were not trying to take women back to the Dark Ages by having government infringe on their freedom of reproductive choices. They defied science declaring a fetus was actually a baby and they were just attempting to protect life, not remove a women’s dominion of her own body.

The same folks who argue Muslim’s are backwards, religious extremist, mysoginists are now defending Humane Vitae which compels women to reproduce to fulfill God’s will.

But it gets even better. As each right wing extremeist tries to out crazy the others, grabbing the spot light is becoming difficult. Republican Representative Bob Morris seems to have a natural talent for crazy, extending the War on Women to the War on the Girl Scouts. In a letter to his fellow legislators he claims:

“abundant evidence proves that the agenda of Planned Parenthood includes sexualizing young girls through the Girl Scouts, which is quickly becoming a tactical arm of Planned Parenthood.”  Bob continues claiming Girl Scouts promotes homosexual lifestyles, noting this “radicalized organization’s” role models:

“only three have a briefly-mentioned religious background – all the rest are feminists, lesbians, or Communists.”

Whoa, did Bob just accuse the role models for young girls to be feminists, who believe in equal opportunity and equal political, economic, social rights for women? If girls get these dangerous ideas, they may demand to be seated at the table during Congressional Hearings on contraception. Perhaps this is Satan at work as Rick Santorum warned.

Or perhaps Karl Rove, master Republican strategist has been replaced by that guy that used to shout near the entrance of the subway station, (Repent, Satan is coming),  and the one who writes those Nigerian emails, (God Bless, God Bless, trust me with your finances and I will make you a millionaire).

 

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  1. Barefoot and pregnant

    are okay. Anything else, well…

    From The GOP’s Long War Against Women and Sex

    The focus on birth control is not new either. Conservatives and Republican appointees successfully held up emergency contraception for over-the-counter status for three years in the FDA, despite a recommendation from an independent joint advisory committee to the agency to make the drug available. Dr. W. David Hager—appointed by then President Bush to the FDA’s Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs—told the New York Times about why he voted against the drug’s approval, noting, “What we heard today was frequently about individuals who did not want to take responsibility for their actions and wanted a medication to relieve those consequences.” (Hager also penned a book in which he argued that prayer could cure PMS—quite the expert on women’s health!)

    Conservative women’s rights groups, always eager for a patriarchal pat on the head, have long thrown other women under the bus under the guise of protecting them from their own wanton sexuality. The Independent Women’s Forum—who oppose the Violence Against Women Act, Title IX and who don’t believe pay inequity exists—started a campaign years ago to get the award-winning play The Vagina Monologues banned from college campuses, arguing that it’s pornographic and reduces women to their body parts. (Specifically, the one they’d rather not think about.) The Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute, another right-wing women’s organization, launched a campaign and contest in 2008 to “Bringing Back the Dowry and Hope Chest.” The winner received a “cedar-lined hope chest filled with $1000 worth of dowry items” as well as $500 toward her future wedding. Retro-chic!

    mark-bail   @   Thu 23 Feb 7:41 PM

  2. Which is more frightening?

    Radical Girl Scouts allegedly partnering with Planned Parenthood or
    the chance of Republicans partnering with radicalized Catholic organizations?

    As it turns out the internet research that led the Republican Legislator to the the conclusion the Girl Scouts was a dangerous radicalized organization, came from the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry.

    sue-kennedy   @   Thu 23 Feb 8:27 PM

  3. Not that this is the main point, but...

    …I’ll bet that for that Republican representative, the terms “feminist”, “lesbian”, and “communist” are either equally devoid of meaning or are synonyms.

    carl_offner   @   Sat 25 Feb 10:43 PM

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