War on Women Part 3

                                                                           
 It's Time for Women to Take Another Stand for Our Rights.

As I’ve written about this before, this is another example of advancing onslaught on women’s rights and privacy rights, between a woman and her doctor. This is, again, a paradox on behalf of the GOPs part, and nothing short of hypocrisy, being that one of the platforms they stand so tall on is less regulation and less intrusive government. What’s more intrusive then getting involved in women’s sex lives and reproductive matters. In light of the defunding of Planned Parenthood debate (See my post War on Women Part 2), to the redefining of the word “rape” to “forcible rape” (As if the GOP needs to make sure the woman absolutely didn’t consent…come on), I didn’t think the Republican legislators could possible make their plight any more heinous. A Georgia legislator, Rep. Bobby Franklin, introduced a bill that would manage miscarriages as potential crimes, impel jail sentences and possible even a death penalty sentence. There would be police intervention as if it were a crime scene to see if there was any wrongdoing or mal intent on the woman’s part. This is analogous to the bill in North Dakota that alluded to legalizing the murder of abortion providers, deeming it justifiable homicide or the bill sponsored by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA) that would essentially allow hospitals to let women die, rather than provide a termination of a pregnancy. How this is justifiable to their religious values that surges them to this behavior is baffling, nothing short of hypocrisy and criminality from my determination. It’s the Christian Reconstructionists that are behind all of this. Read ‘What Every American Should Know about Who’s Really Running America; and What You Can Do about It’ by Melissa Rossi and Bill Moyers' 1992 documentary God in Politics: on Earth as It Is in Heaven or as I’ve said, Betty Friedan's 1963 book ‘The Feminine Mystique’.

With this bill there aren’t any guidelines as to how such a determination is to be made, are they going to require women who have had miscarriages to produce evidence that it was an act of nature and not their fault and have it become a criminal investigation? This is so offensive, invasive, and degrading to women. This exremism is manifesting into new evils, very contrary to what they preach their motivation is, crossing boundaries I never imagined and fathomed possible in this country. Not only does Rep. Bobby Franklin share the “small government, less intrusive government” ideals that most of the GOP does, he also opposes public schools and thinks the state has no authority to issue driver's licenses. He also believes government has a “biblically-defined” role. This has absolutely crossed the line for me, the Republicans, since they took control of the house have done nothing but try to take rights away from women and annihilate unions, where are the health care reform options and the job creation, which was of highest priority, they promised? Women have to support women and support women’s rights to privacy. We cannot allow this to happen.