What Governor Walker and his deviant cohorts across the country are trying to explain away is rape - State Mandated Rape. And there is nothing "cool" about any of it.
In an interview with conservative talk radio host Dana Loesch on Friday, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker defended his anti-choice record, saying that a bill he signed requiring that women seeking an abortion first obtain a medically unnecessary ultrasound merely provided them with access to “a lovely thing” and a “cool thing out there.”
From coast to coast Republican Legislators are attempting to legalize the
rape of our daughters, sisters, mothers, friends, and neighbors.
From Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, to Virginia, Republicans have either proposed or passed bills legitimizing state mandated rape.
Wisconsin Republicans: Forcing Women To Undergo Transvaginal Ultrasounds Is Our ‘Priority’
Lets take away the obfuscating language in that line.
Forcing Women to be raped is our priority.
Rape is defined by the
Department of Justice as:
“The penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.”
Republican laws mandating the insertion of probes into women's bodies without their consent are attempting to legalize rape. No amount of prurient piety is going to change that inescapable fact.
Wisconsin’s current law already requires women to undergo a counseling session with their doctor 24 hours before having an abortion, under the false pretense that the women who seek to terminate a pregnancy must not be confident about their decision. Doctors already provide those women with information about ultrasound services. But under the new forced ultrasound measure, women would be forced to undergo an ultrasound — and potentially a transvaginal probe, depending on how far along in her pregnancy she is — without her consent.
Since penetration of a woman's body without her consent is rape, and since Republican Legislatures are legalizing just that, Republican legislators should be brought up on rape charges. That includes Governor Walker, every Legislator who voted for a state mandated rape law, and every Governor who signed one into law.
Law suits need to be filed by women's groups. The American Medical Association should sign on as co-plaintiffs, refusing to be forced into being accomplices. Individuals subjected to such assaults should file class action suits.
All of us who are appalled at this twisting of our laws in order to hide Republican assaults upon our families, friends, and neighbors need to be raising our voices in righteous outrage.
Silence is not an option. Republican Legislatures are writing their own version of The Handmaid's Tale.
“The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
There is not a shred of doubt that we are facing the evil of legalized sexual assault. It will only continue if we do not rise up against it.
Our bodies are not for sacrifice on the Republican altar of narcissistic political piety. Our bodies are not barter for votes. As much as our bodies color Republican's twisted dreams - our bodies, our dreams, our right to self determination, are not theirs to command.
We are not bound over to their deviant version of god, their pretext for absolute control over our bodies and lives. No amount of prurient piety can disguise the harm done to women by Republicans. No amount of wordsmithing can disguise Republican's delight in the subjection, humiliation, and pain they cause our daughters, mothers, sisters, and friends.
None are us are safe from such a perverse Republican mind set. Not our mothers, sisters, daughters, and friends. Not those who love us. Not those we love. Every single one of us is at risk and we know it. We know that what Republicans do to one of us, they will do to all - female and male, straight or LGBT, white or people or color, the disabled, the poor. They already are.
Our bodies are being preyed upon. Our right to self determination is under attack. Our right to be full human beings under full protection of the law is being taken away.
Republicans are not to be trusted with anyone's life, including those they claim to advocate for. They lie, as Governor Walker freely admitted. They'll do anything to get and keep power as the assaults upon our bodies and lives continue.
Walker, who recently explained to Religious Right leaders that he was being purposefully evasive about his anti-choice goals by using pro-choice rhetoric to back his cause, said that while social issues “shouldn’t be defining” for Republicans, “we shouldn’t be afraid to talk about it.”
This is fair warning to Governor Walker, et al.
Main Stream Media may give you a pass. We will not. We're going to use social media to bring you down. We're going to be writing letters to the editor and talking to our neighbors. We're going to be marching on State Legislatures across the country. We're going to challenge your state mandated rape laws in court. We're going to win there and in the court of public opinion.
We're not putting up with your assaults on our self determination. We're not putting up with being raped by decree. We're not putting up with our loved one's lives being sacrificed with such easy disregard.
We're not tolerating Republican efforts to turn America into a Christian Totalitarian Country. We're not going to allow your twisted form of Christianity, one based not on the Beatitudes nor Christ's repeated commandment to "love one another," but on your control of our bodies and lives.
Republicans do not have the moral or lawful authority to "enact" laws that sanction conduct constituting rape under Federal law.
They're hoping we don't notice that inconvenient truth. They're depending upon it. It's time to shout from the mountain tops. Republicans are attempting to legalize the rape of women! Go tell that.
