Legitimate rape, not the phony kind

by: Zappatero

Sun Aug 19, 2012 at 17:24:37 PM MST

The same logic applies to rape in their minds.

It's another day, and another Cro-Magnon Republican Senate candidate opens his big, fat, ignorant, pie-hole:

"From what I understand from doctors, that's really rare," said Todd Akin, Republican candidate for Senate in Missouri, said of pregnancy caused by rape. "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But let's assume maybe that didn't work or something. I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist."

Ummmm, I know Doug Lamborn would kill all childrens' programming, but Dr. Seuss doesn't count as your reference when discussing violence against women in any way, shape, or form.

Here's some reality for just another Republican who can't stand to be near, nor can comprehend in their tiny little brains, what we who live in our God-given 3-dimensional Universe commonly refer to as "facts":

The national rape-related pregnancy rate is 5.0% per rape among victims of reproductive age (aged 12 to 45); among adult women an estimated 32,101 pregnancies result from rape each year. Among 34 cases of rape-related pregnancy, the majority occurred among adolescents and resulted from assault by a known, often related perpetrator. Only 11.7% of these victims received immediate medical attention after the assault, and 47.1% received no medical attention related to the rape. A total 32.4% of these victims did not discover they were pregnant until they had already entered the second trimester; 32.2% opted to keep the infant whereas 50% underwent abortion and 5.9% placed the infant for adoption; an additional 11.8% had spontaneous abortion.

A Call To Arms: With Underwear

by: peacemonger

Tue May 01, 2012 at 08:53:10 AM MST

While you've been busy raising your children, going to work, and caring for everyone around you, Tea Party crazies have been trying to take away women's rights and plunge us back into a previous century.

In 2010, Tea Party extremists gained power in Washington DC, and in many parts of this country. They've presented more than 1100 separate legislative provisions aimed at making women second-class citizens, of which, more than 135 have been passed. These are the kinds of things they've been trying to do:

*   Defund Planned Parenthood, an organization which offers cancer screenings, mammograms, well-woman visits, contraception, treatment of STDs and family planning services.
*   Slash Medicaid for 21 million poor women, so women cannot have health care.
*   Prevent access to birth control and cancer screenings.
*   Repeal ObamaCare, which was the single biggest advancement in women's health in generations. ObamaCare prevents discrimination based on gender, and makes sure insurance companies pay for the things woman deserve, like contraception, pregnancy services, etc.
*   Make women wait days or weeks to have abortions. (Sometimes even, when waiting could cause injury to the woman.)
*   Force trans-vaginal ultrasounds on women who do not need them (government sanctioned-rape).
*   Make women get permission from their husbands or boyfriends in order to get abortions. (What are women and girls who are raped supposed to do?)

Republicans on the radio continue to use the airwaves to insult women, degrade women, and abuse women. Remember Rush Limbaugh who called college student Sandra Fluke a slut and a prostitute eleven times, simply because she had premarital sex with her fiance? How about the conservative radio talk show host who told a father he should have a friend rape his daughter to make sure she didn't turn out to be a lesbian?

Colorado women and the men who love them will not stand for this lack of respect for women anymore. Join us in a revolt.

Show up to their offices, and make them talk to you. Send them your (clean) underwear to remind them you exist, you vote, and (over your dead body) will they continue to abuse, degrade, mock and insult women in Colorado. Bring your daughters, and granddaughters, and their girlfriends with you.

Picket outside their office with signs, banners, and underwear flags. Call them, fax them, email them, show up to meetings, and generally hound them, until they get the message that they need to go back where they came from.

Raise money for the candidates who seek to replace them (the good guys).

Thousands To March In Denver Saturday

by: peacemonger

Sun Apr 22, 2012 at 09:23:06 AM MST

On April 28th, 2012, at 9:30am, thousands of Colorado women and their family members will gather at Civic Center Park's Greek Amphitheater for a Rally to protect women's access to health care, and for the right of each woman to make her own health care decisions. State and federal legislators, musicians, poets, community leaders, and ordinary Coloradans will be addressing current legislation in Colorado and other states. Following the rally, attendees will march around the State Capitol and back around Civic Center Park to where they started.

Over My Dead Body (Literally)

by: peacemonger

Wed Mar 21, 2012 at 21:37:33 PM MST

As a suburban mother, a former preschool and religious school teacher, and one of nine children raised in a conservative home, I might have fallen for their tactics. Fortunately, I've been paying attention for too long.

If the Republicans were really interested in protecting babies, rather than playing to their base for donations and votes, they would not have exempted doctors from prosecution in the CO bill. Medical malpractice in obstetrics and gynecology is a huge problem, but they exempted doctors in HB1130. Why? Because the AMA is a large contributor to the Republican Party.

If Republicans were really interested in protecting babies, they would be making sure fewer young and poor women were becoming pregnant. How? By covering contraception under every insurance plan in these United States.

If Republicans were really interested in protecting babies, they would be investing more public funding in higher education. Women who go to college are far less likely to become unmarried mothers than women who do not.  

Limbaugh Smackdown and CO Women Unite

by: peacemonger

Tue Mar 06, 2012 at 01:20:47 AM MST

And they thought we wouldn't even notice.

"Stupid women -- too busy raising children and buying hair products to notice some of their health care benefits are being taken away", must have been their thinking.