The FAMILY LEADER - one of those innocuous sounding groups that in reality is about as much about actual families as the Democratic Republic of the Congo is ”"democratic,” has been flexing its political muscle throughout the Republican Presidential Nomination process in Iowa. From getting the republican candidates to sign its Christian version of Sharia Law in “The Marriage Vow: A Declaration of Dependence upon MARRIAGE and FAMILY,” to pressuring Iowa Republican lawmakers to ensure that Planned Parenthood receives absolutely no state tax dollars. Not to burst the Fox News bubble created for the Republican residents of crazytown, but it’s a well-known fact that Planned Parenthood does not receive any federal monies for abortions. Planned Parenthood gets $6 million in state tax dollars for providing birth control and reproductive health exams to poor women, unlike the oil companies that can receive upwards of $41 billion a year in federal subsidies or that the US spent $700 billion in 2011 on Defense spending in 2010 to continue blowing up places we have no business being in.
An unlikely foe in the religious right’s perverse war on women this past week was an elderly woman from central Iowa, who exchanged heated but respectful words with Rep. Steve King (R-IA) at a town hall meeting Tuesday. King has been making a lot of headlines recently over some crazy crap he said, but it’s important to remember that he’s been instrumental in attacking Planned Parenthood.
According to ThinkProgress, Shirley Grant went after King for wanting to defund Planned Parenthood and make it harder for women to get health care and “take charge of their destiny” and adding “I find it very offensive that men think they can tell women what to do with their own life.” (Source: Think Progress)
“When women want pro-choice and want to take charge of their destiny, you and your cohorts want to take funding away from Planned Parenthood. My daughter says, ‘throw out the word [birth control], Mom. Planned Parenthood isn’t that.’ She says it’s for hormone replacement and that means you use those pills for many, many, many different areas of women’s lives. I find it very offensive that men think they can tell women what to do with their own life,” said Grant (Source: Think Progress)
Here’s the video:
You know things are looking pretty bleak when a 70-something year old woman is more progressive and reasonable than the entire Republican Party.
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ALL women have a stake in the control that the GOP is trying to exert over us, no matter our age. Shirley Grant deserves nothing but praise for her willingness to stand up to Steve King. APRIL 28TH, we march to show the nation, particularly the politicians, the power they have unleashed by attacking women. See “First We March, Then We Vote” at http://thepoliticali.blogspot.com/2012/03/first-we-march-then-we-vote.html for a link to the march in your state.
As should be obvious even to Faux believers, the GOP wants to eliminate Planned Parenthood. There are TWO reasons for this – 1) Government money is being spent on something that the GOP wants to run for PROFIT – medical clinics, anti-”Obamacare” and all the crap that is associated with the health care industry’s obscene and out-of-control hold on medical expenses. And 2) to pander to the pseudo-Christian Right who believes all sex is evil, but is acceptable if you are married and want a baby.
But if we ignore the Fox Bubble and look at the real world, the two great problems facing the species at the moment are resource allocation and population expansion.
Simple math tells us that the greater the population, the faster the population GROWS, in an exponential spiral that increases our density on the planet at an ever-increasing rate. An d the more people, the more resources needed to deal with them – food, fuel, housing, social services, etc., all of which use non-replaceable, non-sustainable resources, and are overwhelming the sustainable ones because we don’t take the time to replant and refresh.
So the GOP’s war on WOMEN, is really a war on LIFE. Ask any billionaire (except maybe Warren Buffet.) They’ll tell you. In order for them to have it ALL, we have to have it all taken away. it’s not enough that I win, you must lose.
Bottom line: if you wish to stand a snowball’s chance, YOU MUST PLAY FOR KEEPS. NO MERCY, NO QUARTER. That’s what they bring to the field, and if you are just playing go-along-get-along, you are a Kch sucker and GOP victim…
REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER. REMOVE 100% of the GOP pols.