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Rachel Maddow is always substantive on her show on MSNBC if with a huge cadre of sarcasm. This article leaves all the sarcasm out and simply gets to the point of the current debate of the GOP attacking birth control as a new pre-step to further control of a woman’s body.
It is so important that more of this message is articulated by a woman with a woman’s point of view. Most of the argument has been directed and dictated by men. From the Catholic Church whose codified disdain for women’s leadership to the hypocritical patriarchal Republican politicians, these attack on women’s reproductive rights are hollow. While as usual we have a group of Democrats that cower at the first sight of a Republican attack, I am proud to have a president that is able to navigate a rather spineless party with a morally corrupt one and still achieve the ultimate goal; women’s right to birth control even within the churches’ institutions.
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War on birth control
By Rachel Maddow, Friday, February 10, 6:57 PM
Rachel Maddow is a political commentator and host of MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show.”
In 2008 in Colorado, a rebel faction of antiabortion activists decided to pursue a “personhood” initiative. Over the objections of the mainstream antiabortion movement, they proposed amending the state’s constitution to redefine the word “person” to include zygotes. Under the proposal, “from the moment of fertilization,” a woman would be considered two people under Colorado law. When the initiative went before voters, it failed by more than 40 points.
The same activists brought up the measure again in 2010. They changed the “moment of fertilization” language to “the beginning of biological development,” but the intent — and the electoral result — were the same. Even with that year’s conservative electorate, Colorado voters said no to “personhood” by more than 40 points. Again.
The mainstream antiabortion movement opposed the Colorado effort because its members believed a challenge to it might have the unintended effect of reaffirming Roe v. Wade. They also worried that a blunt effort to ban all abortion might cause a backlash that would set back their incremental chipping away at abortion rights.
Rachel Maddow: The GOP war on birth control – The Washington Post
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