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 Arizona Front
the facts and commentary: Over 13 months ago, Arizona's legislature passed a law banning abortions after 20 weeks. In April 2012, Governor Jan Brewer (R) signed the restriction into law. Hers was the first state to challenge the Supreme Court's ruling that abortion is legal in the U.S. up to 24 weeks. Twelve Republican led states soon followed with their own 20 week restriction.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that Arizona's law was unconstitutional, citing a "long line of invariant Supreme Court precedents" beginning with Roe v. Wade in 1973.
Ms. Brewer's administration appealed their case to the U.S. Supreme Court. On Monday the Court declined the case, leaving the 9th Circuit Court's decision in place and effectively invalidating Arizona's law.
Arizona joins Georgia and Idaho, two other states that had their 20 week abortion restriction ruled unconstitutional in federal court. Similar restrictions in nine other Republican led states still stand and have yet to be challenged.
The Supreme Court decided Rowe v. Wade 40 years ago and there have always been those who did not agree with it. But it took the modern Republican Party to raise opposition to the current level where, over the past few years, they have been acting like the court's decision had an opt-out clause just for them.
And so the fight continues. What are the women in those nine states waiting for?
The Republican War on Women is "fiction"?
WHAT YOU DO SPEAKS SO LOUDLY
THAT I CANNOT HEAR WHAT YOU SAY.
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