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Fightdirecto -> Anti-Choice Legislator Not Hiding True Goals (9/21/2011 6:26:14 AM)
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It's not just a "war against abortion"
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The GOP’s concerted campaign against women’s health has resulted in about 1,000 anti-abortion bills in state legislatures across the country and numerous federal attempts to eradicate a woman’s right to choose. The extremity of the efforts include attempts to redefine “personhood,” put warning labels on contraception, and criminalize birth control altogether. But while they smother women’s rights with one hand, Republicans insist “we are not attacking women” on the other. “This is not a war against women,” said Republican founder of WomanTrend Kellyanne Conway.
Texas Rep. Wayne Christian (R), however, begs to differ...
When asked whether Texas’s anti-family planning efforts were “a war on birth control,” Christian replied, “Well of course this is a war on birth control and abortions and everything”:
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The goal is to get government money out of the abortion process and if contraceptive services have to suffer a bit of collateral damage in the process, so be it. When The Texas Tribune asked state Rep. Wayne Christian (R-Nacogdoches), a supporter of the family planning cuts, if this was a war on birth control, he said “yes.”
“Well of course this is a war on birth control and abortions and everything, that’s what family planning is supposed to be about,” Christian said.
Family planning clinics are routinely referred to by many Texas Republican legislators as “abortion clinics” even though none of the 71 family planning clinics in the state that receive government funding provide abortions. Texas and federal law prohibits that, but most women’s health clinics will refer women or teens who want an abortion to a provider.
“They’re sitting here, referring women out to receive abortions,” Christian said in an interview with NPR. “Those are the clinics, including Planned Parenthood, we were targeting.”
While disturbing, Christian’s honesty is a refreshing change from Republicans’ more common defense that cuts to women’s health care will save money. As NPR notes, the state estimates that 300,000 women will lose access to family planning services because of these cuts, resulting in roughly 20,000 additional unplanned births.
Game plan of the anti-choice movement:
First, prison and/or the death penalty for any doctor who performs an abortion for any reason, to include abortions for women and girls who become pregnant from rape or incest or where bringing the fetus to term would kill the mother.
Next, prison for all medical clinic workers (nurse’s, receptionists, etc.) if the medical clinic performs an abortion for any reason.
Next, prison and/or the death penalty for any woman who either gets an abortion (including women who go to another country to get a legal abortion) or induces their own abortion.
Next, investigation of all miscarriages, to determine if it was a spontaneous miscarriage or was caused by some action of the mother. If it is determined that the miscarriage was caused by some action of the mother, prison for the mother under negligent manslaughter if the fertilized egg has been fertilized more than 24 hours.
Next, criminalize the manufacture, possession or use of IUDs.
Next, criminalize the manufacture, possession or use of birth control pills.
Next, criminalize the manufacture, possession or use of condoms.
Next, investigation of all cohabitating male-female couples who have no children to verify that they are not using any form of birth control, to include abstinence. If they are found to be using any form of birth control, to include abstinence, prison.
The future “Brave New World” of the anti-choice movement..
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