TW for CSA, domestic abuseCut their paychecks and take away their healthcare! The GOP’s insane

TW for CSA, domestic abuseCut their paychecks and take away their healthcare! The GOP’s insane plan to woo women in 2016The GOP wants to attract women voters by putting a happy face on policies that will make their lives miserable“Remember earlier this year when a coalition of Republican women led a “revolt” against a 20-week abortion ban because it would have denied rape victims access to the procedure unless they reported the assault to authorities?At the time, this supposed Republican awakening spawned approximately 1 million pieces about the possible new face of the party, lawmakers who were not just savvier about bad press and dodging the “war on women” label but also more concerned with women’s lives in general.That was January. Welcome to March.The GOP’s latest budget proposal offers the same-as-it-ever-was scorched earth approach to cutting funding for domestic programs, including the ones that serve low-income women and victims of violence. The hottest Republican presidential contender for 2016 just suggested that he might eliminate the federal minimum wage. Senate Republicans have vowed to block the confirmation of Loretta Lynch until Democrats essentially agree to force child victims of trafficking to carry pregnancies to term. And some of the most prominent women in the party are blaming the pay gap on old people watching porn at work.It’s tempting to laugh at the absurdity of it all, but these policies actually cause tremendous suffering and — in the case of a possible repeal of the Affordable Care Act and any reduction in funds for programs that serve victims of intimate partner violence — literal death for women. [See Republicans Are Killing Women: US Maternal Death Rate Climbs; Female Deaths Rise In GOP Counties]The plan is clear about repealing the Affordable Care Act and massive restructuring of Medicaid and Medicare (both major hits to women), but it also contains $1 trillion in unspecified cuts to domestic programs, which, as we’ve seen in years past, means food assistance, housing assistance, Head Start and funding for domestic violence and anti-sexual violence programs.It is bizarro world out there, and it only promises to get more bizarro as we move closer to 2016. The GOP will be in the unenviable position of pretending that decimating women’s paychecks and taking away their healthcare is the real way to improve their lives. (Because being broke and sick without access to a doctor always turns out so well.) Some in the party may have had a moment of political savvy back in January, but that moment is gone. There’s no disguising the GOP’s blatant assault on women’s lives and basic livelihoods, and what’s ahead looks bleaker than ever.”Read the full piece hereLearn more about the Republican War on WomenU.S. readers, register to vote here: http://www.vote411.org. This way you’ll be qualified to vote these misogynists out the next chance you get. -- source link

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