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Happy Valentine’s Day, Ladies of Virginia! Your GOP Hates You and Your Uteri (Original Post) FloridaJudy Feb 2012 OP
it's maddening maddezmom Feb 2012 #1
And GOP women must be self hating? atreides1 Feb 2012 #2
agreed maddezmom Feb 2012 #3
"State Rape" - not hyperbole.. not a metaphor. .. . . . .n/t annabanana Feb 2012 #4
We're in the fight for our lives. The Republicans want to roll back not just Roe v Wade yardwork Feb 2012 #5
This point needs to be hammered home in GD over and over and over. redqueen Feb 2012 #6

maddezmom

(135,060 posts)
3. agreed
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 03:42 PM
Feb 2012

and here is a female R Gov.
Anti-abortion "personhood" bill clears Oklahoma senate

OKLAHOMA CITY | Thu Feb 16, 2012 2:29am EST

OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Oklahoma lawmakers edged closer toward trying to outlaw abortion on Wednesday by approving "personhood" legislation that gives individual rights to an embryo from the moment of conception.

The Republican-controlled state Senate voted 34-8 to pass the "Personhood Act" which defines the word person under state law to include unborn children from the moment of conception.

The measure now goes to the state House where pro-life Republicans outnumber Democrats by more than a 2-1 margin.

Oklahoma's Republican Governor Mary Fallin, who signed every anti-abortion bill sent to her last year, did not issue a reaction to the latest right-to-life measure.

more: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1138510

yardwork

(63,811 posts)
5. We're in the fight for our lives. The Republicans want to roll back not just Roe v Wade
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 04:12 PM
Feb 2012

but even the right to contraception. That only became constitutionally guaranteed in 1965. See Griswold v Connecticut: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griswold_v._Connecticut

When the Republicans talk about getting back to the "family values" of the 1950s they aren't kidding.

redqueen

(115,164 posts)
6. This point needs to be hammered home in GD over and over and over.
Thu Feb 16, 2012, 04:14 PM
Feb 2012

There is a difference, and while it may not be enough for many (if not most), the differences which do exist are by no means insubstantial.

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