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Truer words about the Republicans have never been spoken:
There is “a war on women,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says, and it’s being led by her own colleagues on the other side of the aisle in Congress.
“There is actually a war on women,” the California Democrat said Thursday in Washington, taking aim at House Republicans’ efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and restrict access to abortions, among other measures.
“Abortion is one issue, but contraception and family planning and birth control are opposed by this crowd too,” the first female speaker of the House said of Republicans at the Feminist Majority Foundation’s Women, Money and Power Summit, CNN reported.
“We have a big fight on our hands, in terms of respect for women, and our, what is right for our country in terms of our family decisions, in terms of Medicaid and Medicare,” she said. “We have to create a drumbeat across America.”
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“If you are talking about jobs, their pay in the workplace, health care … no longer is being a woman a pre-existing medical condition. They want to change all of that,” Pelosi said. “So in every aspect — whether it is employment, whether it is education, whether it is health care, whether it is retirement, whether it is collective bargaining, which affects women as well — women have a lot to lose with the ideological old-style agenda of the Republicans.”
The teahadist-controlled Republican House is ready to shut the government down over women's access to healthcare. No more sliding scale PAP smears for you, and if you get cervical cancer because you haven't had screening, it's your own damned fault for having a sex life.
They are shutting down government to take control over your sex life, your health, your self-determination. Welcome to the Tea Party's 21st century America.