Top 10 Shocking attacks

Top 10 Shocking Attacks from the GOP's War on Women

by Susan Masten on Sunday, February 19, 2012 at 2:20pm ·

 Thank you Gerald Rozner!
1) Republicans not only want to reduce women's access to abortion care, they're actually trying to redefine rape. After a major backlash, they promised to stop. But they haven't yet. Shocker.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/09/abortion-forcible-rape-language-hr-3_n_820846.html

'Forcible Rape' Language Remains In Bill To Restrict Abortion Funding
www.huffingtonpost.com WASHINGTON -- After significant public blowback, House Republicans last week 

2) 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 less gendered crimes, like burglary, would remain "victims."

http://www.dlcc.org/GA_Rep_Says_No_Such_Thing_as_Rape_Victims

GA State Rep.: There’s No Such Thing as a Rape Victim | Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee
www.dlcc.org
U.S. House Republicans have received a great deal of attention over the past wee...See More

3) In South Dakota, Republicans proposed a bill that could make it legal to murder a doctor who provides abortion care. (Yep, for real.)

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/south-dakota-hb-1171-legalize-killing-abortion-providers

South Dakota Moves To Legalize Killing Abortion Providers
motherjones.com
A bill under consideration in the Mount Rushmore State would make preventing harm to a fetus a "justifiable homicide" in many cases.

4) Republicans want to cut nearly a billion dollars of food and other aid to low-income pregnant women, mothers, babies, and kids.

http://www.majorityrules.org/2011/02/republicans-propose-to-cut-programs-for.html

Republicans Propose to Cut Programs for Pregnant Women, Children, the Disabled and Blind to Pay for.
www.majorityrules.org Republicans in the US House have come up with their budget cutting idea

5) In Congress, Republicans have a bill that would let hospitals allow a woman to die rather than perform an abortion necessary to save her life.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/02/new-gop-law-would-allow-hospitals-to-let-women-die-instead-of-having-an-abortion.php

New GOP Bill Would Allow Hospitals To Let Women Die Instead Of Having An Abortion
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com The controversy over “forcible rape” may be over, but now there’s a new Republican

6) 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.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/02/16/144869/gop-women-kids/?mobile=nc

Republican Officials Cut Head Start Funding, Saying Women Should Be Married And Home With Kids
thinkprogress.org As ThinkProgress has reported, the right wing has been undertaking a war on wome

7) And 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.

Head Start, another program that provides much-needed educational opportunities for low-income children, would lose more than $1 billion in funding, forcing serious cutbacks in the availability of their much-needed service.

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/02/groups_hit_by_cr.html

House Republicans Target America’s Most Vulnerable: The Top Five Groups Hit the Most by Conservative
www.americanprogress.org

8) 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.

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-a-budget/144585-house-gop-spending-cuts-will-devastate-women-families-and-economy-

House GOP spending cuts will devastate women, families and economy
thehill.com
House Republican leaders have released their plan for funding—or defunding—the f...See More

9) Congress just voted for 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.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/02/18/6080756-house-passes-measure-stripping-planned-parenthood-funding

House passes measure stripping Planned Parenthood funding

10) And if that wasn't enough, Republicans are pushing to eliminate all funds for the only federal family planning program. (For humans. But Republican Dan Burton has a bill to provide contraception for wild horses. You can't make this stuff up).

http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2011/02/16/votes-contraception-wild-horses-women-0

GOP: Yes to Contraception for Wild Horses, No for Women
www.rhrealitycheck.org During a month in which the anti-choice Republican and Tea Party majority in Congress