NARAL: I know Kos hates them

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Friday May 27, 2005 · 12:16 PM PDT

2005/05/27 · 12:16

I know Kos hates NARAL, but I just received this message from them and it really goes to show what women are up against.

here's their message:

The Senate may have reached a compromise to disarm the nuclear option, but don't think that means this anti-choice Congress is willing to compromise its far-right agenda.

This time, not only did our opponents take aim at our courts, they even turned their backs on women in the military

By a vote of 56-43 the Senate confirmed Priscilla Owen, an anti-choice judicial activist from Texas, to a lifetime position on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

House Republican leaders refused to allow debate or votes on two amendments that would have provided compassionate health care to military women who've been raped. The first would have ensured that the morning-after pill, ordinary birth control pills that can prevent pregnancy after sex or assault, is made available to servicewomen at every military base. The second amendment would have allowed women to use their military health insurance for abortion care in cases of rape or incest. Given that sexual assaults against servicewomen rose 25 percent in 2004, it's appalling that anti-choice lawmakers refused to allow these amendments to even come to a vote.

Military women were also yet again denied the right to access abortion care at military facilities overseas when the House defeated an amendment to repeal a ban that forbids servicewomen and female military dependents from using their own money to pay for an abortion at overseas military hospitals.

By thoughts:

I guess this is where all the kossacks jump in to say that the GOP really isn't trying to get rid of access to abortion.

Or that abortion/reproductive rights is a really bad issue and we should stop supporting choice.

By the way, can anybody give me the background as to why the GOP likes to hurt women in the military so much? I know it involved Reagan, but I wondered who started it?

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