Sarah Silverman as only she can, addresses the issue of the wage gap between men and women.
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Friday, October 10, 2014
CLOSE THE GAP
Sarah Silverman as only she can, addresses the issue of the wage gap between men and women.
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Monday, June 30, 2014
JUSTICE GINSBURG BLISTERS FELLOW SUPREME BEINGS OVER HOBBY LOBBY RULING
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| RADICAL CONSERVATIVE MEN RULE AGAINST WOMEN AT WORK |
Justice Ginsburg has some problems with the Hobby Lobby 5-4 decision. Some excerpts from her dissent via Mother Jones:
"Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community."
"Any decision to use contraceptives made by a woman covered under Hobby Lobby’s or Conestoga’s plan will not be propelled by the Government, it will be the woman’s autonomous choice, informed by the physician she consults."
"It bears note in this regard that the cost of an IUD is nearly equivalent to a month’s full-time pay for workers earning the minimum wage."
"Approving some religious claims while deeming others unworthy of accommodation could be 'perceived as favoring one religion over another,' the very 'risk the [Constitution's] Establishment Clause was designed to preclude."
You can read the full dissent here. (It starts on page 60.)
In other words, your boss has more of a right to free exercise of his religion than you have because, well, money!
Voting has consequences, screw who is POTUS, they only have 8 years to screw the pooch, their selections of Supreme Beings, can have generational effects, as these folks stay until they rot, which can be decades.
The damage done today is a major setback for women, let alone ACA.
Quoting Col. Nathan R. Jessup in a few good men: "all you did was weaken a country, that's all you did. You put people's lives in danger. Sweet dreams, son.....................
For-profit companies have religious rights, and those rights trump the rights of women who work for them. ~ Justice Alito
Quoting Col. Nathan R. Jessup in a few good men: "all you did was weaken a country, that's all you did. You put people's lives in danger. Sweet dreams, son.....................
NFTOS
Editor-In-Chief
Editor-In-Chief
Roger West
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
SPEAK NOW OR FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE
Many things that the American Taliban does bothers me, but nothing is more disturbing to me in circa 2013, than old pasty white cavemen, deciding what women can and can't do with their bodies.
Watch the below two clips, if this disgusting pattern of the GOP does not disturb you, does not set a fire in your belly, does not get your "fanny perprindicular" for the cause of women's rights, then you are as callous and outdated as the American Taliban er!
Let the videos roll!
Video Courtesy of MSNBC:
Video Courtesy of MSNBC:
How a women could vote for these Neanderthals, is beyond me! Ladies, you have a voice, a say about what happens to your person, speak now or forever hold your peace!
NFTOS
Editor-In-Chief
Roger West
Thursday, March 15, 2012
"JUST CLOSE YOUR EYES"
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| Penn Gov says "just close your eyes". |
PA GOP Governor Defends Ultrasounds Bill.
More than 10 state legislatures are considering or have passed bills forcing women to receive an ultrasound before having an abortion. And Pennsylvania lawmakers are considering one of the most far-reaching ultrasound bills in the nation.
Gov. Tom Corbett (R) reaffirmed this week that he supports the anti-abortion measure so long as it’s not obtrusive because women could simply close their eyes during the procedure:
QUESTION: Making them watch…does that go too far in your mind?
CORBETT: I’m not making anybody watch, OK. Because you just have to close your eyes. As long as it’s on the exterior and not the interior.
Critics say Corbett’s comments show he doesn’t understand how the bill would even work. While the Pennsylvania legislation has been amended to remove references to invasive transvaginal ultrasounds, the language suggests a transvaginal ultrasound could still be required if the embryo is too small. Patrick Murphy, a Democrat running for attorney general, called for Corbett to apologize for his statement. “It’s unthinkable that he would so casually dismiss this by advising women to just close their eyes,” Murphy said.
The state House canceled a vote on the bill this week because medical associations have voiced concerns about the measure. And 48 percent of Pennsylvania voters oppose the ultrasound bill, with 42 percent supporting the measure, according to a new Quinnipiac poll. And 64 percent of voters oppose requiring transvaginal ultrasounds.
Meanwhile, Corbett’s approval rating among Pennsylvanians is dropping.
The mentaility of a radical tea bagger, its deep rooted in hate, arrogance, and ignorance.
NFTOS
Editor-In-Chief
Roger West
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Virginia GOP To Next Ban Shoes From Women, Keeping Them Barefoot And Pregnant Is The Rule
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| VA GOP YOUR ON NOTICE |
BREAKING: 2/23/12 17:08 'Personhood' Bill Killed for This Year by Virginia Senate
'Personhood' bill' won't become law in Virginia this year
‘Personhood’ bill killed for this year by Virginia Senate
We have had over 500k hits to our "Virginia approved rape law" blogs these last three days. NFTOS readers have been engaged - thank you for standing up for women! I am often asked why I started NFTOS and blogging. NFTOS' voice is much more powerful than any vote, and our stance on issues like this says "YES WE CAN DEMOCRATS"! I am a proud Democrat living in Virginia!
Thank You ~ West
UPDATE: 2/23/12 13:33 Most people approve of Obama's birth control policy
"The fetus is the property of the entire society."- Nicolae Ceausescu
Ceausescu made mockery of family planning. He forbade sex education, books on human sexuality and reproduction were classified as "state secrets," to be used only as medical textbooks. With contraception banned, Romanians had to smuggle in condoms and birth-control pills. Though strictly illegal, abortions remained a widespread birth-control measure of last resort. Nationwide, Western sources estimate, 60 percent of all pregnancies ended in abortion or miscarriage. ~ Wikipedia
Does the above sound remotely familiar? Yes, current teapublicans in general, more specifically the state of Virginia.
REV AL
Maddow
Ed Schultz
With "friends'" like American GOP'ers, whom needs enemies?
"Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great, if a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate" ~ Monty Python and The Meaning of Life
Guns have a Constitutional Amendment protecting them, women on the other hand, no such luck. The ERA (Equal Rights Amendment) has never been ratified, instead the equality of women is "implied". Does it look like women are being treated equally when we have bills being passed all over the country that are focusing only on women? Women make 77 cents for each $1 a man makes, is this truly equality?
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Only until we vote smart, will we rid ourselves of the radical pungent Reich - wingers.
Nothing says "big government" like the overreach of Virginia's HB one bill. This is a call to all progressives, get off your posteriors and vote in November.
Racism, sexism, homophobia – they go hand in hand with the GOP, and the people oppressed by them experience them in intersecting ways. Worldwide, women’s human rights are complicated by these intersections.
Like the Virginia bills, anti-miscegenation laws were really not about “morality” or “decency”, but about social order. They’re not about “personhood” but “humanity.” Sex, controlling other people’s private lives, dictating what they do with their bodies and controlling their “place” in society. The more “human” you perceive yourself to be, the more you presume you have authority to tell others how to be and what to do. And, like those laws, these bills are based on ignorance, entitlement and arrogance. After many years, the Loving's won their landmark case and succeeded in finally dismantling shameful government-sanctioned racism in regards to mixed-race marriages."
When will a woman's judgment be trusted, her autonomy be assured?
NFTOS
Editor-In-Chief
Roger West
Nothing says "big government" like the overreach of Virginia's HB one bill. This is a call to all progressives, get off your posteriors and vote in November.
Racism, sexism, homophobia – they go hand in hand with the GOP, and the people oppressed by them experience them in intersecting ways. Worldwide, women’s human rights are complicated by these intersections.
Like the Virginia bills, anti-miscegenation laws were really not about “morality” or “decency”, but about social order. They’re not about “personhood” but “humanity.” Sex, controlling other people’s private lives, dictating what they do with their bodies and controlling their “place” in society. The more “human” you perceive yourself to be, the more you presume you have authority to tell others how to be and what to do. And, like those laws, these bills are based on ignorance, entitlement and arrogance. After many years, the Loving's won their landmark case and succeeded in finally dismantling shameful government-sanctioned racism in regards to mixed-race marriages."
When will a woman's judgment be trusted, her autonomy be assured?
NFTOS
Editor-In-Chief
Roger West
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
HEY VIRGINIA
I am a MAN!
I stand up for the inalienable right of women to hold dominion over their reproductive systems.
I stand for the affordable and safe reproductive healthcare.
I stand up to the patriarchal bullies who have enslaved, subjugated, oppressed and marginalized women for millennia.
I do not stand alone.
We are multitudes. We stand with women, not against them. We are men of honor - not sniveling cowards.
Every mother, sister and daughter is a human being.
I vote every chance I get.
End the war on women NOW!
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| VIRGINIA'S NEW MOTTO |
NFTOS
Staff
Sunday, February 19, 2012
I AM WOMAN HEAR ME ROAR, IN NUMBERS TO BIG TO IGNORE
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| I AM WOMAN HEAR ME ROAR.......... |
Take head radical GOP ers, woman are feed up with your non-whimsical madness! Women, they are the 52%!
I AM WOMAN
NFTOS
Staff Writer
Steve "Damn Nazi Liberal" Chevapravatdumrong
Thursday, February 9, 2012
DANA " TEABAGGER DIVA" LOESCH AT IT AGAIN
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| Teapublicant Diva Dana Loesch |
CNN's Loesch: Liberals Want To "Tear Apart" And "Control" Your Rights, Just Like In Nazi Germany And "Mother Russia"
I am not sure if CNN's Loesch is auditioning for Faux News, or that CNN is now aptly named CNN "Faux News LITE"
Holy crap, its the NAZIs! We are surrounded! Yes, those Fascist Nazi Communist Liberals, they will destroy us all. Or at least keep Dana employed for a while.
Pot...meet kettle, or better yet, cave, meet batshit.
NFTOS
Staff Writer
Steve "Damn Nazi Liberal" Chevapravatdumrong
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Under Teapublican Law
What Rights Do Women Really Have?
2011 marked a banner year in the teapublican war on woman’s health. Close to 1,000 anti-abortion bills sped through state legislatures as the teabagger-led House led a “comprehensive and radical assault” on a federal level. But in surveying their arsenal this year, 10 bills stood out as particularly perturbing and far-reaching efforts to stymie women’s access to abortion services, birth control, and vital health services like breast cancer screenings. Here are NFTOS', nominations for the most extreme attacks on a woman’s right to choose:
Redefining Rape - Last May, every House teapublican and 16 anti-choice Democrats passed H.R. 3, the No Taxpayer Funding For Abortion Act. Anti-choice activists Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) tried to narrow the definition of rape to “forcible rape,” which meant that women who say no but do not physically fight off the assault; women who are drugged or verbally threatened and raped; and minors impregnated by adults would not qualify for the rape and incest exception in the Hyde Amendment. Smith promised to remove the language but used “a sly legislative maneuver” that essentially informs the courts that statutory rape cases will not be covered by Medicaid should the law pass and be challenged in court.
Abortion Audits -The No Taxpayer Funding For Abortion Act also bans using tax credits or deductions to pay for abortions or insurance. Thus, a woman who used such a benefit would have to prove, if audited, that her abortion “fell under the rape/incest/life-of-the-mother exception, or that the health insurance she had purchased did not cover abortions.” This requirement turns the Internal Revenue Service into “abortion cops” who, agents noted, would have to force women to give “contemporaneous written documentation” that it was “incest, or rape, or [her] life was in danger” which made an abortion necessary.
Let Women Die - This October, House teapublicans also passed the “Protect Life Act”, known by women’s health advocates as the “Let Women Die” bill. The measure allows hospitals that receive federal funds to reject any woman in need of an abortion procedure, even if it is necessary to save her life. Though federal law already prohibits federal funding of abortions, the GOP insisted that the health care law “contains a loophole that allows those receiving federal subsidies to use the money to enroll in health care plans that allow abortion services.”
Personhood - Mississippi entertained the idea of passing a “personhood” amendment to its constitution this year, one that defines a person as “every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning, or the functional equivalent thereof.” The measure’s “profoundly ambiguous” language regarding the definition of fertilization not only would ban all abortions, it could potentially outlaw birth control, stem cell research, and in vitro fertilization for couples struggling to conceive. Mississippians rejected the amendment but personhood activists are making headway with versions for other states and GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is championing a national personhood amendment.
Race/Sex Abortions - Taking their queue from Arizona, House teapublicans introduced the Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA) — a so-called “civil rights” bill that bans physicians from performing abortions based on the fetus’s race or sex. The problem of selective abortion is virtually non-existent, as not one state official or independent research offered any evidence of race-based abortions. Only 5 percent of abortions occur after the point when a fetus’s sex can be determined. Arizona’s measure, now law, sends doctors and clinicians to jail for three years if they knowingly provide such abortions. The federal bill PRENDA allows for civil suits against the physicians.
Forced Ultrasounds - Several states pushed bills that force doctors to show a woman seeking abortion services an ultrasound of the fetus, and in some cases, describe the image to her. The Kentucky bill, for instance, required doctors to describe the image if the woman chose to avert her eyes or face a $250,000 fine for disobeying the law. The bills are designed to dissuade women from undergoing the procedure, and in Michigan’s case, provide a “gift to the medical device industry” by forcing doctors to use “the most advanced ultrasound equipment available” to get the most “distinct” image of the fetus possible. North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue (D-NC) vetoed her state’s version of the bill, viewing it as “a dangerous intrusion into the confidential relationship that exists between women and their doctors.”
Fetal Pain - This year, multiple states pushed legislation limiting or banning abortions past 20 – 22 weeks “based on disputed research that fetuses an feel pain at that point of development.” The idea is widely panned by many in the medical field, with the Journal of the American Medical Association determining that “pain perception probably does not function before the third trimester.” Regardless of the science, teapublican lawmakers and even presidential candidate Rick Perry endorsed the fetal pain concept in order to challenge the Roe v. Wade ruling and push an earlier ban on abortions. So discredited is the concept of fetal pain that even a Kansas teapublican slammed the “false research,” adding “I would be embarrassed to be a state that bases its laws on untruths.”
Heartbeat Bill - Ohio teapublicans are leading other states on the path to pass the “heartbeat bill,” which, if enacted, will be “the most restrictive anti-abortion law in the nation.” The bill outlaws abortions if a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which can occur as early as “six to seven weeks into pregnancy” or before a woman even knows she is pregnant. There is no exception in the bill for rape, incest, or mental health of a woman. What’s more, the bill forces doctors to wait until a woman is actually in danger of dying to ensure the abortion falls under the “threat to life” exception.
Government Shutdown - The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is an international development agency that promotes universal access to reproductive health services. UNFPA does not, nor has it ever, funded abortions — as dictated by its steering document and by its members. But as Matt Yglesias reported, teapublicans were determined to believe that UNFPA funds abortion and thus held up negotiations to fund the government with a policy rider eliminating funding for UNFPA. U.S. law also forbids foreign funding to any entity that supports abortion, but House teapublicans were so committed to their unfounded belief that the U.S. might be doing so that they threatened to shut down the entire government over it.
Attack On Planned Parenthood - While simultaneously trying to ban abortions outright, GOP lawmakers on a state and federal level launched a full-scale effort to defund Planned Parenthood. Only 3 percent of the women’s health organization’s services are related to abortion, but it’s association with abortion compelled teapublicans to enact legislation cutting or completely defunding Planned Parenthood clinics. Without the funds, many clinics across the country were forced to close, leaving hundreds of thousands of women without vital services like breast cancer screenings, STD testing, and contraception. Texas, the largest state to defund the organizations, may also shut down the entire Women’s Health Program that served 125,000 Texas women in 2012 because some of the family planning clinics in the program are affiliated with Planned Parenthood. Arizona even passed a law banning charity contributions to any organization that is related to abortions or even donates to an organization that is related to abortions. Indeed, this year’s teapublican war on Planned Parenthood left thousands of low-income women and children who benefit from tangential health programs as collateral damage.
Under teapublican law, women have little say about their bodies and the teapublicans have stuck to a very simple game plan.
Here it is: The guiding principle is that you play to feelings not reason, since feelings cannot be subject to facts. You accomplish this with three simple steps.
1 Vilify Your Enemy;
2 Obfuscate the Simple; and
3 Project Your Negatives on Your Enemy.
The above tactics are not new. In the U.S. they have been used mostly in elections in the past; now they are used legislatively. They are being used in a disciplined manner by one major political party and their allies at Faux News and the teabagger express.
If you think I am wrong, I have a suggestion: In the future, when you hear the President or a democratic leader offer a policy recommendation, apply the three principles outlined above and I guarantee they are an infallible predictor of the teapublican talking points that you will hear a few hours later. Go ahead. Try it!
For better or worse, Martin Luther, Samuel Adams, Vladimir Lenin, and Joseph Goebbels wrote this playbook. Now it’s John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Mitch McConnell, Roger Ailes, Dana Loesch, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity marching at the forefront of our willing descent into madness.
We at NFTOS have said it before - what great lengths the tebaggers will go to ensure the fetus is born, ir-regaurdless of circumstances - then after that fact screw the individual at all costs. So the 64 thousand dollar question is, why do teapublicans care so much about a fetus but so little about them after birth? The sad thing is - most fighting abortion laws are redneck, hillbilly southerners of the teabagger affiliation.
Reiterating, teapublican law number one " you play to feelings not reason, since feelings cannot be subject to facts".
One thing is for sure, teapublican rule is a cold callous mentality. The oxymoron of this whole deal is teapublicans often scream because of 'big government", yet telling women what they can and can't do with their bodies is the worst kind of 'big government" that exists in our land today.
NFTOS
Editor-In-Chief
Roger West
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| I'm a teapublican and under my laws.... |
2011 marked a banner year in the teapublican war on woman’s health. Close to 1,000 anti-abortion bills sped through state legislatures as the teabagger-led House led a “comprehensive and radical assault” on a federal level. But in surveying their arsenal this year, 10 bills stood out as particularly perturbing and far-reaching efforts to stymie women’s access to abortion services, birth control, and vital health services like breast cancer screenings. Here are NFTOS', nominations for the most extreme attacks on a woman’s right to choose:
Redefining Rape - Last May, every House teapublican and 16 anti-choice Democrats passed H.R. 3, the No Taxpayer Funding For Abortion Act. Anti-choice activists Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) tried to narrow the definition of rape to “forcible rape,” which meant that women who say no but do not physically fight off the assault; women who are drugged or verbally threatened and raped; and minors impregnated by adults would not qualify for the rape and incest exception in the Hyde Amendment. Smith promised to remove the language but used “a sly legislative maneuver” that essentially informs the courts that statutory rape cases will not be covered by Medicaid should the law pass and be challenged in court.
Abortion Audits -The No Taxpayer Funding For Abortion Act also bans using tax credits or deductions to pay for abortions or insurance. Thus, a woman who used such a benefit would have to prove, if audited, that her abortion “fell under the rape/incest/life-of-the-mother exception, or that the health insurance she had purchased did not cover abortions.” This requirement turns the Internal Revenue Service into “abortion cops” who, agents noted, would have to force women to give “contemporaneous written documentation” that it was “incest, or rape, or [her] life was in danger” which made an abortion necessary.
Let Women Die - This October, House teapublicans also passed the “Protect Life Act”, known by women’s health advocates as the “Let Women Die” bill. The measure allows hospitals that receive federal funds to reject any woman in need of an abortion procedure, even if it is necessary to save her life. Though federal law already prohibits federal funding of abortions, the GOP insisted that the health care law “contains a loophole that allows those receiving federal subsidies to use the money to enroll in health care plans that allow abortion services.”
Personhood - Mississippi entertained the idea of passing a “personhood” amendment to its constitution this year, one that defines a person as “every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning, or the functional equivalent thereof.” The measure’s “profoundly ambiguous” language regarding the definition of fertilization not only would ban all abortions, it could potentially outlaw birth control, stem cell research, and in vitro fertilization for couples struggling to conceive. Mississippians rejected the amendment but personhood activists are making headway with versions for other states and GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is championing a national personhood amendment.
Race/Sex Abortions - Taking their queue from Arizona, House teapublicans introduced the Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA) — a so-called “civil rights” bill that bans physicians from performing abortions based on the fetus’s race or sex. The problem of selective abortion is virtually non-existent, as not one state official or independent research offered any evidence of race-based abortions. Only 5 percent of abortions occur after the point when a fetus’s sex can be determined. Arizona’s measure, now law, sends doctors and clinicians to jail for three years if they knowingly provide such abortions. The federal bill PRENDA allows for civil suits against the physicians.
Forced Ultrasounds - Several states pushed bills that force doctors to show a woman seeking abortion services an ultrasound of the fetus, and in some cases, describe the image to her. The Kentucky bill, for instance, required doctors to describe the image if the woman chose to avert her eyes or face a $250,000 fine for disobeying the law. The bills are designed to dissuade women from undergoing the procedure, and in Michigan’s case, provide a “gift to the medical device industry” by forcing doctors to use “the most advanced ultrasound equipment available” to get the most “distinct” image of the fetus possible. North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue (D-NC) vetoed her state’s version of the bill, viewing it as “a dangerous intrusion into the confidential relationship that exists between women and their doctors.”
Fetal Pain - This year, multiple states pushed legislation limiting or banning abortions past 20 – 22 weeks “based on disputed research that fetuses an feel pain at that point of development.” The idea is widely panned by many in the medical field, with the Journal of the American Medical Association determining that “pain perception probably does not function before the third trimester.” Regardless of the science, teapublican lawmakers and even presidential candidate Rick Perry endorsed the fetal pain concept in order to challenge the Roe v. Wade ruling and push an earlier ban on abortions. So discredited is the concept of fetal pain that even a Kansas teapublican slammed the “false research,” adding “I would be embarrassed to be a state that bases its laws on untruths.”
Heartbeat Bill - Ohio teapublicans are leading other states on the path to pass the “heartbeat bill,” which, if enacted, will be “the most restrictive anti-abortion law in the nation.” The bill outlaws abortions if a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which can occur as early as “six to seven weeks into pregnancy” or before a woman even knows she is pregnant. There is no exception in the bill for rape, incest, or mental health of a woman. What’s more, the bill forces doctors to wait until a woman is actually in danger of dying to ensure the abortion falls under the “threat to life” exception.
Government Shutdown - The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is an international development agency that promotes universal access to reproductive health services. UNFPA does not, nor has it ever, funded abortions — as dictated by its steering document and by its members. But as Matt Yglesias reported, teapublicans were determined to believe that UNFPA funds abortion and thus held up negotiations to fund the government with a policy rider eliminating funding for UNFPA. U.S. law also forbids foreign funding to any entity that supports abortion, but House teapublicans were so committed to their unfounded belief that the U.S. might be doing so that they threatened to shut down the entire government over it.
Attack On Planned Parenthood - While simultaneously trying to ban abortions outright, GOP lawmakers on a state and federal level launched a full-scale effort to defund Planned Parenthood. Only 3 percent of the women’s health organization’s services are related to abortion, but it’s association with abortion compelled teapublicans to enact legislation cutting or completely defunding Planned Parenthood clinics. Without the funds, many clinics across the country were forced to close, leaving hundreds of thousands of women without vital services like breast cancer screenings, STD testing, and contraception. Texas, the largest state to defund the organizations, may also shut down the entire Women’s Health Program that served 125,000 Texas women in 2012 because some of the family planning clinics in the program are affiliated with Planned Parenthood. Arizona even passed a law banning charity contributions to any organization that is related to abortions or even donates to an organization that is related to abortions. Indeed, this year’s teapublican war on Planned Parenthood left thousands of low-income women and children who benefit from tangential health programs as collateral damage.
Under teapublican law, women have little say about their bodies and the teapublicans have stuck to a very simple game plan.
Here it is: The guiding principle is that you play to feelings not reason, since feelings cannot be subject to facts. You accomplish this with three simple steps.
1 Vilify Your Enemy;
2 Obfuscate the Simple; and
3 Project Your Negatives on Your Enemy.
The above tactics are not new. In the U.S. they have been used mostly in elections in the past; now they are used legislatively. They are being used in a disciplined manner by one major political party and their allies at Faux News and the teabagger express.
If you think I am wrong, I have a suggestion: In the future, when you hear the President or a democratic leader offer a policy recommendation, apply the three principles outlined above and I guarantee they are an infallible predictor of the teapublican talking points that you will hear a few hours later. Go ahead. Try it!
For better or worse, Martin Luther, Samuel Adams, Vladimir Lenin, and Joseph Goebbels wrote this playbook. Now it’s John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Mitch McConnell, Roger Ailes, Dana Loesch, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity marching at the forefront of our willing descent into madness.
We at NFTOS have said it before - what great lengths the tebaggers will go to ensure the fetus is born, ir-regaurdless of circumstances - then after that fact screw the individual at all costs. So the 64 thousand dollar question is, why do teapublicans care so much about a fetus but so little about them after birth? The sad thing is - most fighting abortion laws are redneck, hillbilly southerners of the teabagger affiliation.
Reiterating, teapublican law number one " you play to feelings not reason, since feelings cannot be subject to facts".
One thing is for sure, teapublican rule is a cold callous mentality. The oxymoron of this whole deal is teapublicans often scream because of 'big government", yet telling women what they can and can't do with their bodies is the worst kind of 'big government" that exists in our land today.
NFTOS
Editor-In-Chief
Roger West
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