The Republican War On Women - The Battle in the U.S. Congress

This is the eighteenth in a series of articles on the subject of women, abortion rights and the Republican Party. 

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 National Front 

facts and commentary:  A panel of twelve MEN on the House Judiciary Committee met yesterday to discuss the "No Taxpayer Funding of Abortion" bill.  The bill would deny tax subsidies to women and small businesses who purchase abortion coverage as part of their health care plan. Exceptions would be granted in cases of rape, incest and to save the life of the mother. GOP leadership, in order to signify the importance of the bill to their party's rank and file, has assigned a high number (H.R.7) to the bill.

The bill's supporters argued:

1. The bill would discourage individuals and small businesses from including abortion coverage in their insurance plans by imposing tax penalties on them.
2. Middle and low income women who are eligible for partial subsidies to pay for their health insurance through the Affordable Care Act and who can currently choose to include abortion coverage in their policy, would undoubtedly choose not to purchase abortion coverage if they were told they would have to cover the entire cost themselves.  This would effectively eliminate abortion coverage from millions of ACA insurance plans.
3. The rape exception would "spur audits for rape survivors...The bill could prompt the IRS to audit a sexual-assault survivor who seeks abortion care with her own, private funds."

Millions of Americans are trying to figure out how to feed their families following the January 1st end of the federal unemployment benefits extension and these (ALL MALE) clowns are meeting to discuss how they can punish women who choose to access a legally available health care option. And they think that threatening a rape victim with an IRS audit is a perfectly reasonable argument to support their position!

This bill, the men-only panel considering it and the arguments presented in support of it need no further comment. 

The Republican War on Women is "fiction"?

WHAT YOU DO SPEAKS SO LOUDLY

THAT I CANNOT HEAR WHAT YOU SAY.