Now that Republicans are in power in the House Of Representatives they are no longer concerned about the government being in every part of our lives. I remember when Republicans wanted government out of our lives. Now they want to be in the lives of every woman. They want to dictate when a woman can call a forceful action upon her own body.
Let us be honest. When the Republican elite talk about getting government out of our lives, what they really mean is that they want all but Republican government our of your lives. After all, they want to control a woman’s body. They want to forbid those who would want their government to offer healthcare insurance to compete with private insurance from doing so. They want to forbid those who want corporations to stop abusing the middle class with their policies from doing so. They want to forbid those who want to develop policies for energy independence from doing so. And on and on.
In effect Republicans want government all over your lives simply and mostly implemented through their corporate masters. Republicans want the church to control your body and values as corporations control your personal economy.
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What’s Behind The Drive To Redefine Rape In New And Insane Ways?
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The recent drive behind H.R. 3, the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act," is animated by one thing and one thing only — the deep and abiding belief among its cosponsors that women are chattel. Not even that "babies are great" — many of the same cosponsors are those who’d all but wash their hands of the responsibility of ensuring those children got affordable health care. But what’s getting all of the attention in the bill is the part where legislators have banded together to mansplain the various shadings of the crime of "rape" to America.
‘The limitations established in sections 301, 302, 303, and 304 shall not apply to an abortion–
‘(1) if the pregnancy occurred because the pregnant female was the subject of an act of forcible rape or, if a minor, an act of incest; or
‘(2) in the case where the pregnant female suffers from a physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness that would, as certified by a physician, place the pregnant female in danger of death unless an abortion is performed, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself.
That portion is what the Washington Post‘s Jonathan Capeheart calls "the scary part" of the bill. I sort of think that the whole idea of government intrusion for the purpose of turning women into brood-mares is pretty much "the scary part," but I’ll allow that the above terrifies on a whole new David Cronenberg-esque level. Essentially, it makes allowances for abortions only in the case of "forcible rape."
(I’d be worried about that second clause, as well, seeing as we live in a world where Bill O’Reilly, anti-abortion warrior, has apparently never heard of an "ectopic pregnancy" or "pre-eclampsia.")
What’s off the table? Well, if you are a woman coerced, drugged or otherwise incapacitated by a rapist, too bad! Also, if you are a young child, statutory rape is off the table, too, unless incest is involved. (The incest exception lapses for adults, crazily.) Per Nick Baumann:
What’s Behind The Drive To Redefine Rape In New And Insane Ways?