Republicans continue to say they don’t have to change their core principles, they only have to change the language they use to get their message out. One perception they want to alter is the idea that they are running a “war on women”. Looking at the news over the past few years, I’d say the Republican Party has a long way to go on this subject.
- Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky): “Talk about a manufactured issue. There is no issue.”
- RNC Chairman Reince Priebus: “It’s a fiction.”
The Wisconsin Front
the facts: Last Friday, when he thought no one would be looking because of the July 4th holiday week-end, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed his state's new restrictive abortion bill into law.
The law, which was to go into effect on Monday, July 8, required any woman seeking an abortion to undergo an ultrasound even if she and her doctor agreed that it was unwanted and unnecessary. However, it was another restriction--one that has been included in several Republican sponsored anti-abortion bills in other states during the past year--requiring any doctor performing an abortion to have admitting privileges at a local hospital that has stymied Wisconsin's attempt to prohibit abortion services in that state.
U.S. District Judge William Conley blocked implementation of the law by issuing a temporary restraining order, specifically sighting the admitting privileges requirement by saying it serves "no medical purpose" and that it was rushed into law without medical evidence. He is requiring that the state prove that this provision safeguards a woman's health, something he feels "does not bear even superficial scrutiny on the current record."
This is an argument I've made many times. No hospital would turn away an emergency admission because the doctor was not on their admitting doctor list. Can any Republican honestly offer proof that any hospital, anywhere, first requires confirmation that an emergency patient's doctor is one of "their own" before giving treatment?
It is simply a transparent, Republican ploy to prohibit women from exercising their rights under the U.S. Constitution.
The Republican War on Women is "fiction"?
WHAT YOU DO SPEAKS SO LOUDLY
THAT I CANNOT HEAR WHAT YOU SAY.
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