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Loading...The Future is Stark for Women In Boehner’s America
It seems as if 2010 has quickly gone from being touted as the year of the woman, to now having the potential to be the worst setbacks women have seen in decades. It’s already being predicted that by the end of the election, we will actually have less women in Congress, rather than more. And, depending how things shake out, we might end up with a new powerful, anti-female party running the show.
These are the concerns behind EMILY’s List’s newest campaign, Boehner’s America. According to EMILY’s List President Stephanie Shriock:
“The GOP has made it clear that the interests of women and families don’t matter to them. If they win on November 2, Speaker Boehner and the Republican majority would start right away at gutting our progress and protections: They would repeal health care reform. Abandon Social Security. Protect big corporations. And chip away at our reproductive rights at every turn.
Need more alarm bells? Take a look at Senator Jim DeMint, a powerful kingmaker among the very right wing, who would return us to a seemingly bygone era. He says unmarried women should not be allowed to be teachers if they are sexually active. He said that just this past weekend — 2010. Can you imagine anyone saying that about a man?
In Boehner and DeMint’s America, all the ground we have gained to make health care affordable and accessible would be rolled back. Forget about the right to make our own decisions about our reproductive choices in private — government would legislate that. Women could be forced to bear their rapists’ child; doctors would be criminalized. Corporations — like the ones funding the big money attacks on our elected women — would call the shots.”
Sound extreme? Not so much, once you consider that at least 78 Republican candidates believe that abortion should be illegal even in the case of rape or incest, or that DeMint was willing to block building a Women’s History Museum because “women already have one for quilting.”
Women need to get out in droves and make their voices heard this election. That is, unless they truly feel comfortable being the second class citizens they would once again be in Boehner’s America.
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