War on Women
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War on Women is a rallying cry used by Democrats and related groups to highlight Republican agenda-driven laws directly targeting women's rights including: women's access to abortion, birth control, and health care; women's access to social and legal remedies for violence in the home, crimes like rape; and inequality in the work place. Starting in 2010 (coinciding with significant Tea Party gains in the House of Representatives) US federal, state and local bills limiting women's rights became commonplace.[1]
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- In 2011, US states attempted to pass over 1,000 bills that would have the end result of limiting access to abortion. These include laws to redefine abortion clinics as ambulatory surgical units (requiring extensive renovations to comply with safety issues), personhood laws, ultrasound requirements, total bans for abortions after 20 weeks, etc. Of those attempts, 135 bills had been enacted. In one year alone. [2]
- Paul Ryan introduced a bill to redefine rape as "forcible rape" for any bill that involved funding. Had it passed, it would have meant that federal funds which currently can be used for abortions that are the result of rape and incest could not be used for incest, date rape, or other "non-forcible" rape. Representative Bobby Franklin of Georgia introduced a bill stating raped women were not "victims" but only "accusers" until a conviction was had. [3]
- In August 2012 the Republican-controlled House held up a vote to renew the Violence Against Women Act, because it provided protection for transgendered persons, illegal aliens, and women on reservations. This act has been renewed bilaterally for the last 18 years without hitch.
- The Republican party, in an attempt to discredit and even destroy Obama, attacked Obamacare using women's health as the pawn. They declared that it was against religious freedom to be required to provide birth control to women via the insurance religious institutions or religious individuals provided for their companies. In discussing the issue of birth control, an all-male panel of religious experts were among the few people to testify in front of the house committee. Women were not permitted to address their views that such access was medically necessary, and no one testified about the legal permissibility.
- The Republican party shot down the Paycheck Fairness Act in 2014. Some argued that women make choices that push them to make less than men while some like Senator of Tennessee Lamar Alexander worried that shrinking the wage gap would somehow hurt men.[4]