House GOP to women: Your rape wasn't rapey enough!

[PhaedraMcSpiffy]

Corrupt Politics blog

Rape is only really rape if it involves force. So says the new House Republican majority as it now moves to change abortion law.

For years, federal laws restricting the use of government funds to pay for abortions have included exemptions for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest. (Another exemption covers pregnancies that could endanger the life of the woman.) But the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” a bill with 173 mostly Republican co-sponsors that House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has dubbed a top priority in the new Congress, contains a provision that would rewrite the rules to limit drastically the definition of rape and incest in these cases.

Read the whole thing.

gonk

Really, I'm done refraining from calling anti-abortion people woman haters.

EDIT:
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/01/republican-plan-redefine-rape-abortion
Is the original source. I don't know why that blog didn't cite a source. sad  

[moonlight_peach12]

The bill sounds terrible and very anti woman. It sounds like they don't want women to have an abortion regardless of what happens to them. And it sounds like the woman in question wouldn't be able to use her private insurance to pay for it either. How the heck would she be able to afford the procedure that would help her out. I wish that republicans and others who don't care for woman would leave our reproductive rights alone. This bill sounds ridiculous and dumb. Next thing you know they are going to try and make a bill that will say that a woman who has bad health wont be able to get an abortion with her private insurance if she has a bad heart or any other bad health problems as well. I really hope this doesn't pass so we can still have the choice we need accessible. Thank you for posting this in the guild so that the member's of the guild can become aware of what the republicans & anti women are trying to do.  

[PhaedraMcSpiffy]

moonlight_peach12

It sounds like they don't want women to have an abortion regardless of what happens to them.

Bingo.

I'm gonna make a thread about this in ED, too. I haven't seen anybody talk about it outside of a few reproductive rights blogs.

EDIT:
The thread: http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/extended-discussion/new-abortion-bill-redefines-rape/t.69243615/  

[moonlight_peach12]

PhaedraMcSpiffy

moonlight_peach12

It sounds like they don't want women to have an abortion regardless of what happens to them.

Bingo.

I'm gonna make a thread about this in ED, too. I haven't seen anybody talk about it outside of a few reproductive rights blogs.

EDIT:
The thread: http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/extended-discussion/new-abortion-bill-redefines-rape/t.69243615/

Thank you for posting the link to your thread I will be sure to visit it. I also want to say that I enjoy your threads that you make in the guild because they are very informative and intellectual.  

[[Gash-jackel]]

First time coming on Gaia in years, came in on a whim.

Decide "hey may as well check the old guilds"

Find this.

Laughed.

Everything went better than expected.
Also, glad I'm not American.  

[ZimGangster]

The Daily Show did a very good piece on this with Kirsten Schaal just the other day.