Actually, the only calls I've heard for him to step down are from Republicans.Not if the calls are coming from democrats. Republicans live to irritate democrats these days. Are there any Republicans calling for his resignation?
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Actually, the only calls I've heard for him to step down are from Republicans.Not if the calls are coming from democrats. Republicans live to irritate democrats these days. Are there any Republicans calling for his resignation?
No rug sweeping here...perhaps you confuse me with another poster.Abortion is a women's health issue. That is, the policy affects ALL women, not just liberal women. Restrictions are bad for ALL women, not just liberal women. As FH's article shows, even pro-life women will eagerly demand abortions when they believe their circumstances are inappropriate for motherhood, even though they'll holler that the doctor is a murderer while they wait their turn. It's a major issue. You can't just sweep it under the rug. No women's health strategy is complete without safe, legal access to abortion.
I object to the phrase "war on women" because it presupposes a sense of authority to speak for all women. Two women can completely disagree on a topic without viewing it as one holding the "noble for women" opinion, and the other holding the "have no right to have that opinion" opinion. I do not believe that the republicans have a "war" on women. If I were to take that position for republicans, the same position would also apply to democrats as well. This is phrase is just a political talking point.
I guess that I'm just one of those "old-school type feminists" that believe that a woman has the right to think for herself. Period. I object to another woman implying or telling me that I ought to "get with the program" and support the official, handed down, duly authorized, agreed-to-by-some unknown-group-of-people opinion on a topic.
I do not agree that any man has the right to tell me what to think just because he has a penis and "knows better." Nor do I agree to any woman telling me what to think just because she has a vagina and calls herself a feminist and supports what is understood as the "official feminist" view on a matter.
I am not directing this post at any individual male or female poster on this thread. And I apologize for not reading through this thread before replying.
I see thru your ruse....it's really an anti-Willie post!I am not directing this post at any individual male or female poster on this thread. And I apologize for not reading through this thread before replying.
I see thru your ruse....it's really an anti-Willie post!
But you spared yourself much useless tedium by skipping the prior blather in this now long thread.
Whew! What a relief!No anti-Willie! I like Willie.
No rug sweeping here...perhaps you confuse me with another poster.
I'm just objecting to the empty phrase "war on women".
from article said:Last March, in a discussion in the Kansas House about whether women purchase separate abortion-only policies, Republican state Rep. Pete DeGraaf suggested women should plan ahead for rape the way he keeps a spare tire. A few weeks later, Indiana state Rep. Eric Turner, a Republican, said some women might fake being raped in order to get free abortions.
Former presidential hopeful Rick Santorum suggested doctors who perform an abortion on a woman who becomes pregnant from an attack should be thrown in jail and this year suggested rape victims who become pregnant from an attack should be forced to keep the baby and "make the best out of a bad situation."
Yes, they can be a misinformed bunch, but that doesn't mean that they wage "war on women".
This seems no more valid than saying Democrats wage a "war on babies".
This guy makes me sick. I guess there really is a war on women after all.
Ok, then more like a (Battle) with women over what should be their right as women to make medical decisions for themselves.
For some reason I thought they were against big government......
Many Publicans love big gov't.Ok, then more like a (Battle) with women over what should be their right as women to make medical decisions for themselves.
For some reason I thought they were against big government......
In the US (subject country) "economic libertarians" are simply "libertarians".They are social authoritarians and economic libertarians.
Of course there is, but for me it is overshadowed by the nugget of dishonest histrionics.I agree with Sunstone that there is a nugget of truth in there....
It doesn't imply that. You only infer it.If you think of it in terms of the States' "war on drugs" rather than their "war on terror", the term implies "a moral crusade using the authority of the state to inhibit the rights and freedoms of individuals to appease social conservatives" rather than "throwing some bombs around."
In the US (subject country) "economic libertarians" are simply "libertarians".