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Loading...Dispatches From The War On Women: Rick Perry Really Doesn’t Like Poor People
Welcome to Dispatches, your round-up of the latest news from the frontlines of the War on Women. Have a story from your state or an idea on how to push back? Share them here and fight back against the War on Women.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry really doesn’t like poor people. Not only is his administration shutting down the immensely successful Women’s Health Program as a way to defund Planned Parenthood, but Texas is also opting out of the Medicaid expansion and state health exchange under Obamacare. This means that the 1 in 4 Texans who are uninsured will remain that way despite the fact that the federal government would have footed the bill to insure them. Perry called the Medicaid expansion an intrusion into state sovereignty, which has simply returned as Republican code-speak for ignoring the civil rights of Americans.
If you disagree with that last conclusion, check out Jeff Fecke’s piece on what the GOP thinks should happen to the sick.
The push to grant legal personhood to a fertilized egg took a significant step backwards in Ohio where supporters of a personhood ballot initiative couldn’t even gather one-tenth of the signatures needed to get it on the ballot. This is good news, but like Gremlins, these anti-choice measures seem to multiply and get more evil each year, so sit tight and wait for 2013. We’ll have a chance to revisit the issue again.
In South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) proved that being a woman doesn’t make one a feminist and vetoed nearly $500,000 in sexual assault and domestic violence prevention programs because they “distracted” from the mission of the Department of Health. Umm, yeah.
The economy may be recovering, slowly, but women don’t seem to be sharing in the gains equally with men. The National Women’s Law Center released a new report that breaks down some of the reasons why that may be, and I offer my thoughts on it here.
It’s good to see misogyny in the gaming community get attention and pressure to change. Now let’s follow through.
Is there an institution the Vatican is involved with that doesn’t have a sex abuse scandal on its hands?
Mitt Romney may not be eager to address the civil rights implications of Republican-embraced voter ID laws, but that won’t stop Attorney General Eric Holder and NAACP President Ben Jealous from teeing the issue up for him anyways.
It couldn’t have happened to a nice guy: hate-minister Bradlee Dean is ordered to pay the court costs of Rachel Maddow and MSNBC after he sued them for reporting truthfully about his “pray away the gay” campaigns and ties to Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann.
This is excellent: for the first time ever the United States has more women than men on its Olympic team. Thanks, Title IX!
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+ add your ownThe Repugliscum, Ideology: Poor people suck. Rich people steal from poor people. Poor people are suckers. GOP Wall street crooks are heroes.The 2 KOCHroaches are role models, greed is good. Vampire CEO's are the future of Amerikka and we should imitate them. Parasitic Banks are the essence of opportunity USA, punish the poor. Grind the working slaves into the ground. No healthcare for seniors, no medicare, no social security. Enrich the military Industrial Complex. War is good, Profits from the Arms and weapons Industry. Bomb Iran.
"Rick Perry Really Doesn’t Like Poor People" This in itself isn't news. It's lie V the TV series we all know the aliens aren't human. :)
See also Prick Error by AronRa on Youtube.
Well...that is Texas for you...I think Texas just does not like poor people...I had the misfortune of having to live with a FIRST CLASS SNOB FROM TEXAS IN PEACE CORP...AND SHE TURNED OUT TO TELL ME SHE WAS CIA..THATS DIRTY TEXAS FOR YOU...SHE EVEN PARTICIPATED IN TRYING TO ENGINEER MY DEATH..I DONT SEE WHY YOU ALL ARE SURPRISED..BUT SHE WAS A DEMOCRAT SO DONT TRUST EITHER AND DONT TRUST TEXANS.....RICK PERRY REMINDS ME OF WHAT MY GRANDMOTHER CALLED A SHISTER.....ROMNEY REMINDS ME OF A SHISTER...THOSE EYES....
In Texas, a person can be charged with a felony, Murder By Omission. If women and the poor die, should he be charged with this crime???
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The governor should be publically executed for uninsuring over 6 million people. This behaviour is unacceptable. Defenders of the govenor should be similarly executed. There will be no healthy americans while republicans still walk among us.
Republicans actually do have concerns about overpopulation. They just don't want to prevent it, preferring to "let nature take its course."
Proponents of backwards laws hope their legislation proposals get in effect so they will stay "on the books" for a long time, hoping they will be forgotten. It's easier to put new laws in effect than to remove them. Laws need to be reevaluated. There are obsolete laws.
All of this really just isn't a war on women. I totally agree with having this continuing set of collective articles because certainly there is a war on women. But just as these articles do in taking a step back to get a broader view of the world to see that right wingers and fundamentalists are waging a war on the rights and well being of women, you can also take a step farther back and see that the war is far more encompassing. Just as the first segments tells us the war is against everyone who is not of the priviledged class. The war on women is only a facet of the war on what is basically can be called the other 99% of us. Fighting the war on women is worthy in all aspects but try to maintain the clarity and vision to know we must overall fight the war on the people.
Hopefully, Perry won't be in office any longer than the next election!
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