Republican War on Women: Texas Rep. Wants Women to Carry Dead Fetus to Term

I wrote an article for this series just a day or two ago, but this news was just too much to allow to go un-noted.  I'll make it short.

This is the twenty-eighth in a series of articles on the subjects 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.”

Texas State Representative Matt Schaefer (R)

The Battle in Texas 

the facts and commentary:  Texas State Representative Matt Schaefer (R) has proposed an amendment that would force a woman to carry a fetus to full term even if her doctor has found the fetus to be non-viable due to "a severe and irreversible abnormality," and that the fetus will certainly die at birth if not before, even if her doctor advises that the pregnancy be terminated to prevent the very real possibility of the mother dying from sepsis.

A person possessed of even an ounce of compassion, not to mention common sense, (really, how is this supposed to "protect women?"), must wonder why he would want to put a grieving mother and family through more emotional trauma with his amendment.

Not unsurprisingly, Mr. Schaefer has a Christian-based explanation: "(Suffering is) part of the human condition, since sin entered the world."

So once again we have some conservative Christian Republican lawmaker using God as an excuse for reducing the rights of women.

Last month, Michele Bachmann told Jan Markell, host of the radio program "End Times" that the Second Coming is imminent. "We need to realize how close this clock is getting to the midnight hour...We in our lifetimes...could see Jesus Christ returning to earth and the rapture of the church."

Imagine the look at these hateful Republican faces when this time, instead of Jesus Christ, God sends Jeannie Christine.

The Republican War on Women is "fiction?"

WHAT YOU DO SPEAKS SO LOUDLY

THAT I CANNOT HEAR WHAT YOU SAY.

Addendum:  Mr. Schaefer's amendment passed, but was tabled after Trey Martinez Fischer (D) filed a legislative point of order.