Just one more way of reaffirming âThere is no war on women.â Or the poor for that matter.
Itâs comforting to know the freedom-loving GOP: Special Victims Unit is always at the ready to deny people their rights.
âI believe Planned Parenthood should not be treated any differently than other Medicaid provider,â Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) told TPM on Tuesday, reiterating that she has long opposed stripping government funding from the organization.
and the âgang of fourâ just became the âgang of fiveâ.
Steve King is smiling.
The fact is, GOP policies are often restrictive and oftentimes silly and unconstitutional. Bottom line, GOPers are lazy at governoring!
Ryan touts the health bill as providing more âfreedom.â But not, of course, for women.
As the legislative branch, it might be forgivable that the GOP males are so confused about where babies come from. But there is no excuse for being confused about where taxpayers come from.
An 18 year old once explained to me that she was going to have a baby because she could not afford an abortion. At the time, if she continued her pregnancy Medicaid would cover âeverythingâ, but 250-400 for an abortion (depending on whether or not anesthesia was included) was more money than she could come up with for anything. These were her only considerations: costs for the day she was living through. Not how to provide for any child resulting from the pregnancy. And providing Medicaid for all pregnant women meant that having the baby was the more comfortable path in the moment. If both abortion and prenatal care were covered equally, that would not be true and there likely would be more abortions. Similarly, if abortion and prenatal care are equally not covered, there would likely be more abortions because the government would not be intervening to make one choice more comfortable than the other.
Congratulations to all the rump and/or Republican voters for what we will soon see as the elimination of that faceless âWashington Bureaucratâ between you and your doctor !! Good news ??
Bad news ??? Women of the USA will soon have a Republican politician in that spot with a rubber glove on. You have actually voted away control of your own bodies and given it to menfolk who believe your lives should be âguidedâ (controlled) by them. That will be whether you have insurance or not.
They use that cute little phrase ⌠âelections have consequencesâ so often that people get numb to it and it loses itâs meaning. To say it another way ⌠you can lose everything or be mandated to do what they want you to do by a stroke of the pen. A new law and the Prez signature. We have given this newly installed government the OK to âgovernâ from that alternate universe they live in.
Spicer says âthe President believes itâ, so does that mean that it will soon be legal and accepted to grab them by the âwhoozitâ ?? Maybe ⌠if the President believes it should be.
I know then! For Chriiiistians, with bible-thumping male as head of the house! Somebody say Praise Jesus!
Smaller government, more choices. Clean rivers, blue skies. Health care for all. All mean the opposite, just like everything Donald says.
A couple of questions/ comments
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Have any TPM reporters approached female pro-life (anti abortion) activists to get interviews and their comments on the Trumpcare/Ryancare cuts to Medicaid, seeing that 50% of women who are pregnant rely on Medicaid? I would love to see interviews with in depth comments⌠I would imagine theyâll be overjoyed at the restrictions placed on insurers when it comes to abortion, but I would like to hear their thoughts on how this impacts their cause down the road when women (and likely the fetishized unborn) die as a result of no pre-natal or maternity care or unsafe illegal abortions. I truly wonder if many of them have really thought about this in depth. (I have zero interest in what male anti-abortion activists thinkâŚthey seem to be largely ignorant about womenâs bodies and how pregnancy works, its complications etcâŚand they donât see women as humans)
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These restrictions on womensâ health and abortion strike me as radical Christianists trying to impose their extreme beliefs on the entire country much in the way that they criticize Sharia law or radical IslamâŚI donât criticize their personal choice to never have an abortion or their belief that abortion is wrong, but to impose that on other people, is extreme and I wish that it would be framed as radical to impose your religious/moral beliefs on othersâŚthis is so not about protecting babies or we would see laws passed to encourage adoption of the thousands of children domestically who are waiting for families.
Here is a link to children in NY State currently waiting for familiesâŚmost are black and brown and many are teenagers and unlikely to have a family by the time they age out at 21. I have seen no widespread effort by pro-lifers to promote adoption (of non-pink or asian babies) and b/c of that, I question their framing their beliefs as âpro-lifeââŚthey arenât. http://ocfs.ny.gov/adopt/photolisting.asp
I guess being a woman is again a preexisting condition and your medical decisions are not your own. My Body My Choice. Your Body Your Choice.I am tired of white men trying to decide what a woman should be able to have for medical care. Abortion is a legal medical procedure.
Every man for himself. Every woman for your husband.
And the GOP âWar on Educationâ continues.
Republicans have two different thresholds for defining human.
For right to life it starts at conception.
For all other human rights it starts at about $200,000 in annual income.
Thatâs for whitened, heterosexual (real or posed) Christians. There are higher income levels required for other groups.
Once again, how many of these potentially affected people either did not vote in 2016 or voted for a third party candidate?
When interviewing âpro-lifeâ women you usually get interruptive word salad at light speed that boils down to over turning Roe no matter what the issue your trying to discuss with them.
So much for the free market. You can choose whatever plan you want with your tax credit, unless itâs a plan that covers abortion.
We knew that, of course, but itâs still disgusting.