GOP war on women

Republicans deny waging war on women. 

Well, how about the list below, which includes cuts to life-saving programs that mostly affect women.

Too many Republican legislators have:

• Voted against equal pay for women
• Sought to make miscarriage subject to criminal investigation
• Sought to make women’s health insurance cost more than men’s
• Cut funds to women’s clinics that screen for STDs and cancer of the breast and cervix
• Insisted corporations should have more rights than women, when it comes to contraception. Even though it is women’s bodily and financial well-being that are at stake
• Insisted that women seeking abortion undergo a vaginal probe — mirroring sexual assault
• Refused to consider rape or incest, or a women’s health or life, when legislating against abortion
• Said stupid stuff about rape, like insisting that it can’t cause pregnancy

Meanwhile, Paul Ryan’s budget:  Read the rest of this entry →