Dear John, Does Banning Abortion Trump Job Growth?

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.truth-out.org/dearjohn-does-banning-abortion-trump-job-growth67388

With millions of Americans out of work, House Republicans are focusing in on real priorities: decimating private abortion coverage and crippling public funding for abortion, as Jessica Arons reports in RH Reality Check.

In AlterNet, Amanda Marcotte notes that the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, or H.R. 3, also redefines rape as "forcible rape" in order to determine whether a patient is eligible for a Medicaid-funded abortion. Under the Hyde Amendment, government-funded insurance programs can only cover abortions in cases of rape and incest, or to save the life of the mother. Note that the term "forcible rape" is legally meaningless. Supporters of the bill just want to go on the record as saying that a poor 13-year-old girl pregnant by a 30-year-old should be forced to give birth.

Feminist blogger Sady Doyle has launched a twitter campaign against the bill under the hashtag #dearjohn, a reference to Speaker John Boehner (R-OH). Tweet to let him know how you feel about a bill that discriminates against 70% of rape victims because their rapes weren't violent enough for @johnboehner, append the hashtag #dearjohn.

Everybody Chill Out

More at the link --

[ck4829]

1. K&R

[RandomThoughts]

2. Crank it up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnSbpPXlmvo

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Apparently it does.

:eyes:

[FiveGoodMen]

4. The pukes don't want job growth under any circumstances

High unemployment means they can treat everyone like slaves.

(Of course, if there IS job growth, they'll be happy to claim credit for it)

[Iris]

5. maybe a lot of their constituents are unemployed OB/Gyns ?