This post is a year old. Republicans haven’t gotten better. Their goals have retreated further into darkness and hatred.
Here is a list of misogynist bills introduced by Republicans in the past two weeks showing what they want for women.
1) Rape: Republicans are actually trying to redefine rape to exclude drugging a women and raping her, or getting her drunk and raping her. After a major backlash, they promised to stop. But they haven’t the language is still out there.
2) More Rape. A state legislator in Georgia wants to change the legal term for victims of rape, stalking, and domestic violence to “accuser.” But victims of other crimes, like robbery, would remain “victims.” Apparently in Georgia if a women is raped, she isn’t really – is just an annoying accuser. Which means the rapist is not really a criminal.
3) Murder. In South Dakota, Republicans proposed a bill that could make it legal to murder anyone who injures or threatens a fetus, including a doctor who provides abortion care and the mother. He denies it has anything to do with abortion so I guess it is aimed at makingit OK for a husband or boyfriend to kill his partner if he thinks she might injure the fetus- like in a car accident, or he just doesn’t like her anymore.
4) Starvation. Republicans want to cut nearly a billion dollars of food and other aid to low-income pregnant women, mothers, babies, and kids. But payments to corporations to not grow food to keep prices up is still in the budget.
5) Death. In Congress, Republicans have proposed a bill that would let hospitals allow a woman to die rather than perform an abortion necessary to save her life (so she and fetus die.)
6) Ignorance and slavery. Maryland Republicans ended all county money for a low-income kids’ preschool program. Why? No need, they said. Women should really be home with the kids, not out working. They should be slaves to their husbands instead.
7) More ignorance. At the federal level, Republicans want to cut that same program, Head Start, by $1 billion. That means over 200,000 kids could lose their spots in preschool.
8) Poverty and starvation. Two-thirds of the elderly poor are women, and Republicans are taking aim at them too. A spending bill would cut funding for employment services, meals, and housing for senior citizens.
9) Sickness. Congress voted yesterday on a Republican amendment to cut all federal funding from Planned Parenthood health centers, one of the most trusted providers of basic health care and family planning in our country.
10) Barefoot and pregnant. And if that wasn’t enough, Republicans are pushing to eliminate all funds for the only federal family planning program. (for humans only – Republican Dan Burton, who supports eliminating funds for family planning has introduced a bill to provide contraception for wild horses. Horses have more value to him than America’s women?).
For America’s women and children their agenda is rape, murder, poverty, starvation, ignorance, pregnancy and slavery….If we don’t get these people out of office and into therapy soon America’s women will all be slaves or dead…
The Daily Kos wanders off the point a little often for me; but, I think that this time they hit the nail on the head. The Republican Party was wandered so far away from supporting individual liberties they no longer seem to think women should have the right to make any choices — other than what to serve for supper [from a husband-approved list].
To commit a whole political party to a religious conviction that flies in the face of any science, any ethical understanding of women’s rights smacks completely of theocracy. There have always been religious looneybirds in both of the two parties — who believe that crap — but, I can’t recall any time they were given the chance to make it central to political power.
Eideard 
disturbing, and sadly not very surprising info here. It is disturbing the amount of hate, racism, sexism,nationalism, and religious intolerance still exists in our country.
The republicans seem to be leading the charge to move our country…backwards and at full speed.
On a lighter note- I can at least understand why they are trying to past the first laws mentioned- without alcohol, THE date rape drug, they’d have no hope of ever getting laid.
But back to seriousness- I grew up in a very rural, redneck, and republican area. Now, when I return back there and visit the families of friends I grew up with, I hears stories time and time again indicating just how many of these proud republican wives voted democrat. More so then the church confessional, the sanctity of the voting booth allowed them, what was often their only chance, to stand up to their husbands, their hypocrisy, and their pig headedness.
I feel odd. It’s as if I am watching absurdist theater but the shadow side of it, since most of that theater was toward social enlightenment. But I do get that irreal feeling, like I’m starting a bad trip, got some bad plant material and accidentally ingested it with my nachos. I get that these kinds of sentiments have been circulating in the US since the beginning, just as the sentiments that became the NSDAP were always circulating within the German populace (and clearly still are based on your Dresden post). I also get that there is no way we as humans are getting rid of that kind of thinking. The question is how to keep it in check so that we don’t become the vicious mule army of another Hitler only to regret it for decades if not centuries. The energy is there at this moment. The only thing missing is the orator that can lead us all down into oblivion. It’s my one consoling factor in this terribly dangerous time_that none of the GOP candidates are as charismatic as Hitler was in the early stages of NSDAP development.