tazzygirl
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A little over a year ago, I started this thread...
http://www.collarchat.com/fb.asp?m=3576628
It is sad it took women this long to wake up to the realities. I am glad they finally are, but I saw this coming a long while back. The GOP does not care about women, they do not care about children, they do not care about poverty, they do not care about personal rights.
They care about controlling the masses. That control is achieved by keeping the masses poor, hungry and ignorant. Keeping them that way through decreased education, lack of public assistance and education, forcing them to have children they do not want or can not afford.
Take a look at history of voting rights...
Birth - "All persons born or naturalized" "are citizens" of the US and the US State where they reside (14th Amendment, 1868)
"Race, color, or previous condition of servitude" - (15th Amendment, 1870)
"On account of sex" - (19th Amendment, 1920)
Then we look at women's education in this country....
1945: Harvard Medical School admitted women for the first time.
1969: In 1969, Lillian Lincoln Lambert became the first African-American woman to graduate from Harvard Business School with an MBA
1972: Title IX was passed, making the discrimination of any person based on their sex in any federally-funded educational program(s) illegal
1980: Women and men were enrolled in American colleges in equal numbers for the first time.
Sexual rights....
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973),
The practice of birth control was common throughout the U.S. prior to 1914, when the movement to legalize contraception began. Longstanding techniques included the rhythm method, withdrawal, diaphragms, contraceptive sponges, condoms, prolonged breastfeeding, and spermicides.
Contraception was legal in the United States throughout most of the nineteenth century, but in the 1870s a social purity movement grew in strength, aimed at outlawing vice in general, and prostitution and obscenity in particular.
Comstock and his allies also took aim at the libertarians and utopians who comprised the free love movement – an initiative to promote sexual freedom, equality for women, and abolition of marriage.[20] The free love proponents were the only group to actively oppose the Comstock laws in the nineteenth century, setting the stage for the birth control movement.[21]
The efforts of the free love movement were not successful and, at the beginning of the twentieth century, federal and state governments began to enforce the Comstock laws more rigorously.[21] In response, contraception went underground, but it was not extinguished. The number of publications on the topic dwindled, and advertisements, if they were found at all, used euphemisms such as "marital aids" or "hygienic devices". Drug stores continued to sell condoms as "rubber goods" and cervical caps as "womb supporters"
Sanger appealed her 1917 conviction and won a mixed victory in 1918 in a unanimous decision by the New York Court of Appeals written by Judge Frederick E. Crane. The court's opinion upheld her conviction, but indicated that the courts would be willing to permit contraception if prescribed by doctors. This decision was only applicable within New York, where it opened the door for birth control clinics, under physician supervision, to be established
The birth control movement received an unexpected boost during World War I, as a result of a crisis the U.S. military experienced when many of its soldiers were diagnosed with syphilis or gonorrhea. The military undertook an extensive education campaign, focusing on abstinence, but also offering some contraceptive guidance.[74] The military, under pressure from purity advocates, did not distribute condoms, or even endorse their use, making the U.S. the only military force in World War I that did not supply condoms to its troops. When U.S. soldiers were in Europe, they found rubber condoms readily available, and when they returned to America, they continued to use condoms as their preferred method of birth control
Although clinics became more common in the late 1920s, the movement still faced significant challenges: Large sectors of the medical community were still resistant to birth control; birth control advocates were blacklisted by the radio industry; and state and federal laws – though generally not enforced – still outlawed contraception
In the United States, a flurry of legal actions in the 1960s and 1970s changed the landscape of reproductive rights: in 1965, the Supreme Court ruled in Griswold v. Connecticut that birth control was legal;[150] in 1970, Congress finally removed references to contraception from federal anti-obscenity laws;[151] and in 1973, the Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion during the first trimester of pregnancy.[
In the early 1950s, philanthropist Katharine McCormick provided funding for biologist Gregory Pincus to develop the birth control pill, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1960.
According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, publicly funded family planning saves nearly $4 in Medicaid expenses for every $1 spent on services
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_control_movement_in_the_United_States
Just snippets from the link above. Its been a long battle for women. The right to vote, the right to education, the right to birth control.
How many of these are the GOP aiming at these days?
For the poor... all but the vote.
How long before they target that as well?
Its just utterly disgusting
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