Republican 'War on Women' Is a Media Myth

Here's another article from the same rwing Federalist Society Author:

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"Republican 'War on Women' Is a Media Myth"

It's actually a Bible Myth.

It's Eve in league with Satan to cause the Fall of Man.

This is the justification for male dominance in all the Abrahamic religions.

Leave it to Jeff to post something this ridiculous stupid and devoid of facts.

People should become familiar with the concept of "fetal personhood". It is the next war on bodily autonomy. It is being slipped into court opinions (i.e. the Alabama IVF case), as well as Florida and Texas cases.

Fetal Personhood is the concept that life begins at conception and that the moment of conception endows upon the entity all of the rights and privileges of personhood.

Lying Jeff will say this is a fringe concept, but like with abortion and contraception and marriage, the groundwork is being laid to justify court decisions down the road.

That isn't even controversial.

The article cited is an OpEd piece.

Apparently nothing from Turley this week?

"Lying Jeff will say this is a fringe concept"

Women voting was a fringe concept.

Black equality was a fringe concept.

People like JeffJ just lie and lie and lie.

"There's no evidence that Republicans want to ban or restrict access to birth control."

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SENATE REPUBLICANS BLOCK MARKEY EFFORT TO PASS HIS LEGISLATION TO PROTECT RIGHT TO CONTRACEPTION

Justice Clarence Thomas' concurring opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization"which overturned Roe v. Wade"in which he urged the Supreme Court to "reconsider" its substantive due process precedents, including Griswold.
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Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protects the liberty of married couples to use contraceptives without government restriction.

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On Thursday, right-wing activist Chris Rufo " the man largely responsible for engineering widespread conservative moral panic about "critical race theory" and so-called "woke" politics " responded to an X, formerly Twitter, post from writer Michael Shermer highlighting Republican opposition to contraception. Shermer's post quoted a 2023 video from the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank, that said "conservatives have to lead the way in restoring sex to its true purpose, and ending recreational sex and senseless use of birth control pills."
Rufo didn't see the issue. "So what?" he wrote. "The pill causes health problems for many women. Recreational sex' is a large part of the reason we have so many single-mother households, which drives poverty, crime, and dysfunction. The point of sex is to create children"this is natural, normal, and good."

"The birth control pharmaceutical propaganda has been so successful that women think their only options are to dose themselves with cancer-causing hormones, or have 50 babies or have multiple abortions," The Daily Wire's Candace Owens wrote earlier this month.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.)
In the top spot is current GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson, who " as Rolling Stone's Tessa Stuart reported " has engaged in a lengthy campaign against birth control both in Congress and outside of it. Johnson has argued (incorrectly) that certain kinds of birth control actually are methods of abortion. "The morning after pill, as we know, is an abortifacient," he said last month.

Continuing

all but 10 Republicans in the House who voted against codifying the right to contraceptives into law in July 2022.

While in office, Donald Trump " who enthusiastically campaigned for Vance to win a Senate seat " carved out exceptions for employers to an Obamacare requirement that mandated insurance plans cover contraception as part of preventative care.

On the state level, Republicans have tried to conflate abortion and birth control by arguing that some contraceptives, such as Plan B and intrauterine devices (IUDs), are "abortifacients," even though that is untrue.

In 2021, Idaho passed the No Public Funds for Abortion Act, which prohibits state-funded student health centers from dispensing emergency contraceptives such as Plan B.

That same year, Missouri Republicans tried to forward a bill to ban the state's Medicaid program from paying for IUDs and emergency contraception. "Anything that destroys that life is abortion, it's not birth control," the bill's sponsor said.

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In the wake of Justice Thomas' opinion, Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn called the Griswold decision on contraception "constitutionally unsound" and Republican Sen. Mike Braun voiced his opinion that the issue of contraceptive access should be left to the states.

Partisan fights over Planned Parenthood and Title X, a federal program dedicated to family planning services including publicly funded contraceptive care, go back to the 1970s. And since 2007, Congress has introduced bills that would defund entities that perform abortions, therefore threatening contraceptive access.

Summary this article is garbage, the poster who posted it is garbage.

Fnkcing disgusting ----, JEFF.

You people make me sick.

" post something this ridiculous stupid and devoid of facts.

#8 | POSTED BY SYCOPHANT AT 2024-03-28 02:02 PM | FLAG: "

It's an op ed. It's an opinion piece. And the author is absolutely right about the GOP seeking to protect women's sports and safe places. Both of which Democrats are seeking to destroy.

How did Newsweek become an outlet for Russian and Republican propaganda?
I remember this magazine was considered somewhat respectable when I was a kid.

From Lyin Jeff's Garbage Article: "Here's the thing: No state"and no federal legislation"has targeted IVF in an attempt to ban the practice. There are pending so-called "personhood" bills in 13 states, which would recognize embryos as people, as would the federal Life at Conception Act, which just over half of Republicans in Congress support. But it's unlikely that such state-level legislation will pass without including exceptions for IVF, as the Senate version of the federal bill does. Furthermore, many Republicans, from presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump to Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), who has sponsored the Right to Try IVF Act, have made their support for IVF clear."

LOL

The article itself makes the claim that republicans are fighting a war on women. By giving equal consideration to a clump of cells as the woman carrying said clump of cells you are devaluing (i.e. attacking) the life and interests of the person carrying the clump of cells. IOW a war on women.

"And the author is absolutely right about the GOP seeking to protect women's sports and safe places."

That's just more propaganda.

Republicans have no interest in protecting women, as shown by their legislation giving them control over women's reproduction.

Could you ask Ofbellringer if she can join us?

From Lyin Jeff's Garbage Article: "Similarly underreported is the Biden administration's effort to eliminate the popular au pair program through draconian regulations."

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The Biden administration's proposed changes to the au pair program aim to improve working conditions and protections for au pairs, but the potential cost increases have raised concerns about affordability and the program's future. Here's a breakdown of the reasons behind the changes and their potential consequences.

Reasons for proposed changes:

Fairer compensation: The proposed formula would base au pair wages on the highest applicable state or federal minimum wage, aiming to address concerns about underpayment and ensure fairer compensation compared to domestic workers.
Improved working conditions: The changes propose stricter limitations on working hours, mandatory breaks, and more defined duties, seeking to prevent overwork and exploitation.
Cultural exchange: The administration emphasizes maintaining the program's core purpose of cultural exchange while ensuring responsible treatment and fair working conditions for au pairs.

I actually dated an au pair for a summer back in the day. She had to work 18 hours per day 6 days a week in exchange for room and board. Now admittedly that was many moons ago, but, protecting the rights of workers who are usually women, is ummmm PRO WOMAN.

Both of which Democrats are seeking to destroy.
#15 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

You're hyperbole is not appreciated, JEFF. Get a grip.

Then swallow it.

"It's an op ed. It's an opinion piece."

#15 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

So it's just --------, like everything else you post.
Opinions are like --------, everybody has one.

RFK Jr's VP Pick Is a Fervent Critic of IVF: 'One of the Biggest Lies' About Women's Fertility
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the years that followed in the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s (before DeSantis, now in his early 40s, was on the scene), Title IX became a focal point for conservatives who felt that equal opportunity protections for women athletes, rather than being a cause of celebration, was in fact robbing men of their opportunities. The pages of conservative magazines like National Review were full of articles attacking the law as an affirmative action program that harmed male athletes. As Kathryn Jean Lopez wrote for National Review in 2002, in a review of the anti-Title IX book "Tilting the Playing Field," "Title IX...leads to a clearly unjust result. Women today have the upper hand in just about every area of education -- except sports, so feminists are now demanding special privileges in that area as well."

Nor was Title IX the only site of contention. As recently as the last few years, when soccer's US Women's National Team began calling for equal pay, the right had nothing but mockery. The idea that women should not only have equal opportunity but equal pay seemed laughable. Never mind that the women's team had a better record and brought in more revenue than the men's team. Were they worth more, the market would have already paid them more. As right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh put it in 2019, "It may sound cruel, it may sound unfair, but the marketplace is the marketplace."

It was only once the right realized women's sports could be a useful cudgel in anti-trans politics -- nicely packaged as a rallying cry on behalf of America's daughters -- that they began to argue that this long fight for equality was, in fact, an honorable struggle, and that access to sports was key to women's ability to thrive in both high school and collegiate settings.