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Lucylastic -> Eroding womens rights one bill at a time (6/17/2011 4:21:24 PM)
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WASHINGTON -- Republicans took charge of 25 state legislatures and 29 governors' offices in the 2010 elections, promising to focus on the sputtering economy and unemployment crisis. In the first legislative session of 2011, however, GOP lawmakers introduced an unprecedented number of bills restricting abortion rights for women.
As The Huffington Post has previously reported, more than 900 bills concerning reproductive health were brought forward before the end of March. By contrast, according to NARAL Pro-Choice America, only 175 anti-choice bills were moving through the states at the same time a year ago.
"We're getting hammered on so many fronts," said Elizabeth Nash, a policy expert for the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health research organization. "Every day is another nail in the coffin for Roe [v. Wade]."
Republicans have tried to tie the abortion and family planning discussion to money matters, arguing that taxpayers should not be forced to fund abortions. But the Hyde Amendment, which was adopted nearly four decades ago, already blocks all federal funding from being used for abortions, except in the case of incest or rape.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/17/abortion-rights-states_n_879206.html#s294051&title=Mandatory_Ultrasounds
Going back to the victorian era has started with a bang... so much for jobs and the economy.
gotta cut womens rights before anything else
fucknuts
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