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I am utterly astounded at the decades of progress for equal rights that are being wiped out with unconscionably irresponsible legislation in a matter of weeks. How is this possible?

corruptpolitics:

Many people are saying the list I posted earlier (Top 10 Shocking Attacks from the GOP War on Women) is false. That is a fucking lie. I got that list in an email from MoveOn.org and I covered almost all of those stories on my blog.

 1) Republicans not only want to reduce women’s access to abortion care, they’re actually trying to redefine rape. After a major backlash, they promised to stop. But they haven’t.

John Boehner’s push to redefine rape

2) A state legislator in Georgia wants to change the legal term for victims of rape, stalking, and domestic violence to “accuser.” But victims of other less gendered crimes, like burglary, would remain “victims.”

Georgia State Lawmaker Seeks To Redefine Rape Victims As ‘Accusers’

3) In South Dakota, Republicans proposed a bill that could make it legal to murder a doctor who provides abortion care. (Yep, for real.)

South Dakota Moves To Legalize Killing Abortion Providers

4) Republicans want to cut nearly a billion dollars of food and other aid to low-income pregnant women, mothers, babies, and kids.

House Republicans sketched their vision for a smaller federal government Wednesday, proposing sharp spending cuts that would wipe out family planning programs, take 4,500 cops off the street and slice 10 percent from a food program that aids pregnant women and their babies. - source

House GOP spending cuts will devastate women, families and economy

5) In Congress, Republicans have proposed a bill that would let hospitals allow a woman to die rather than perform an abortion necessary to save her life.

Huffington Post: New Bill Would Allow Religious Hospitals to Deny Life-Saving Emergency Care

6) Maryland Republicans ended all county money for a low-income kids’ preschool program. Why? No need, they said. Women should really be home with the kids, not out working.   

Republican Officials Cut Head Start Funding, Saying Women Should Be Married And Home With Kids

7) And at the federal level, Republicans want to cut that same program, Head Start, by $1 billion. That means over 200,000 kids could lose their spots in preschool.

Head Start funding would fall by more than $1 billion, forcing some combination of lower spending per child and fewer children in the program. The analysis I saw predicted more than 200,000 low-income children would lose slots in the program, although some of that may reflect the loss of funding from the expiring Recovery Act. Either way, it’s a pretty big hit. Oh, and about 55,000 instructors and teachers could lose jobs as part of the cut. - source

8) Two-thirds of the elderly poor are women, and Republicans are taking aim at them too. A spending bill would cut funding for employment services, meals, and housing for senior citizens.

House GOP spending cuts will devastate women, families and economy

9) Congress will vote any day now on a Republican amendment to cut all federal funding from Planned Parenthood health centers, one of the most trusted providers of basic health care and family planning in our country.

GOP Spending Plan: X-ing Out Title X Family Planning Funds

10) And if that wasn’t enough, Republicans are pushing to eliminate all funds for the only federal family planning program. (For humans. But Republican Dan Burton has a bill to provide contraception for wild horses. You can’t make this stuff up).

Birth Control for Horses, Not for Women

And there you have it. It’s all true.