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1) Republicans not only want to reduce women's access to abortion care, they're actually trying to redefine rape. After a major backlash, they promised to stop. But they haven't yet. Shocker.

2) A state legislator in Georgia wants to change the legal term for victims of rape, stalking, and domestic violence to "accuser." But victims of other less gendered crimes, like burglary, would remain "victims."

3) In South Dakota, Republicans proposed a bill that could make it legal to murder a doctor who provides abortion care. (Yep, for real.)

4) Republicans want to cut nearly a billion dollars of food and other aid to low-income pregnant women, mothers, babies, and kids.

5) In Congress, Republicans have a bill that would let hospitals allow a woman to die rather than perform an abortion necessary to save her life.

6) Maryland Republicans ended all county money for a low-income kids' preschool program. Why? No need, they said. Women should really be home with the kids, not out working.

7) And at the federal level, Republicans want to cut that same program, Head Start, by $1 billion. That means over 200,000 kids could lose their spots in preschool.

8) Two-thirds of the elderly poor are women, and Republicans are taking aim at them too. A spending bill would cut funding for employment services, meals, and housing for senior citizens.

9) Congress just voted for a Republican amendment to cut all federal funding from Planned Parenthood health centers, one of the most trusted providers of basic health care and family planning in our country.

10) And if that wasn't enough, Republicans are pushing to eliminate all funds for the only federal family planning program. (For humans. But Republican Dan Burton has a bill to provide contraception for wild horses. You can't make this stuff up). http://www.mecklenburgdemocrat.org/index.php?option=com_content&vi
ew=article&id=78:top-10-shocking-attacks-from-the-gops-war-on-women&catid=28:local-news&Itemid=188 is not a war? Then what IS it?

The following is a transcript of our own beloved Barbara Boxer on the issue:

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the blunt amendment is a radical amendment . it would not only take away the ability of women to get contraception through their insurance, but it would threaten every single essential health care service, every single preventive health care service. if your employer or your insurance company had a moral objection. so let's say you work for someone who believes prayer is the answer to all diseases. you won't have any insurance. it is a radical departure from what we've always done in this country which is to give a conscience claus exemption to religious institutions and religious affiliated institutions. but not allow someone to say, for example, you know i think if somebody is overweight and they get a heart attack , that's their problem and i have a moral objection. therefore, to making sure that they can get health care after a heart attack . this is how radical the blount amendment is. but here's the thing i want america to understand. we are on a highway bill , a transportation bill . a bill that has come out of four committees with strong ? bipartisan support. 2.million jobs are at stake. there are so many construction workers out of work because of the housing downturn. we want to put them back to work. and what's the first amendment that republicans put up? a contraception amendment, which they say is about religious freedom which has nothing to do with it because president obama has taken care of that. in a grand compromise which catholic charities support and the catholic health organizations support and catholics united superior. so that's taken care of. they're just radical and going after women 's health. that's the truth.

All you have to do, for example, is look at the republican presidential election . the republicans are caught up in this right wing ideology. and they can't stop themselves. honestly, until women just get their attention as they did in virginia where they backed off of actually mandating an invasive procedure , they finally had to back off of that. some politician there said his wife threatened him she would never talk to him again or something if he did this. the fact of the matter is, these republicans can't help themselves. they've turned into a right wing party. it's fanatical. it's turning on the women of this country. when you have senator snowe saying what she did and she is a moderate republican , the last of the wonderful breed of people that i've worked with for many years on many issues saying that these polarizing issues have no place in these debates, she's absolutely right. by the way, today she came out against the blunt amendment . i'm so happy about that. http://video.msnbc.msn.com/martin-bashir/46576924/#46576924

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Go Babs! They talk about how this contraceptive thing is a "distraction" from the important stuff. Well, if it's a distraction, why the hell put it in a transportation bill?? Why the hell is Congress now working on a bill to repeal Obama's compromise on the contraception issue, immediately, wanting to bring it to a vote tomorrow? We all know why, of course, but next time you hear them decrying how this has "distracted" business, ask 'em that!

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The Blunt Amendment is not gonna pass, and everybody in the Senate knows that. The purpose of it is to give some moderate Democrats a way of appearing to vote against the mandate...

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The other purpose of this is Blunt, who was regarded as one of the more moderate, deal-making Republicans, look more palatably conservative if he decides to run for leadership

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Distraction? What distraction?

The truth, as I see it, is that the GOP is anachronistic and wants to take us back to when women had no power; it seems to fit with their mentality but I sure hope we can STOP them!

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Following the announcement by President Obama that his administration will ensure that women have access to insurance coverage for birth control while accommodating employers who object to providing birth control, Catholic hospitals and other institutions have said that they support the policy. But Fox News refuses to tell its viewers that the policy has widespread support, instead pretending that Catholic hospitals and other employers are being victimized.

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That being said, my GYN put my oldest on BC pills when she was 16 (31 now), because she had some terrible periods, would be out of commission for the first several days, and was becoming anemic.

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The church is chained to the past just like the rep party... they're afraid if they try and keep pace with contemporary life they'll lose everything - ironical! If they don't change they'll lose everything - wake up!

They're both fighting to preserve their BRAND. They're Kodak, trying to sell film in a digital world

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