Republicans have been trying desperately to reframe the GOP’s relentless assault on women’s rights as a war being waged on women by Democrats.
Last week’s shenanigans with PRENDA (the “don’t abort all the girls” bill) was a perfect example. The wingnuts claim that President Obama and the Democrats blocked PRENDA (Pregnancy Non-Discrimination Act) which proves that it’s really Democrats who hate women because shut up that’s why. (Of course, this is nonsense. As I wrote last week, PRENDA is about further divesting women of their right to make decisions about their own bodies, and as asiangrrlMN wrote last week, PRENDA employs vicious stereotypes about Asian-American women to do so.)
Such claims about a war on women being waged by Democrats don’t pass the smell test, but that hasn’t stopped the Romney-led Republicans from trotting out their finest women to convince Americans that the “War on Women” is like the “War on Caterpillars” — a figment of Democrats’ imagination. They have called upon Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley (again!), Cathy McMorris Rodgers, and even Campbell Brown to make the case that the war on women is fake, even as Republicans float the idea of criminal charges for women who terminate pregnancies.
So here’s the deal: Tomorrow’s Senate vote on the Paycheck Fairness Act offers the GOP to put its money where its collective mouth is when it comes to equal rights for women. From Zerlina Maxwell at Ebony:
[read the rest at TRS-ABLC]Paycheck Fairness Act: Let’s See Where the GOP Stands on the #WaronWomenPost + Comments (13)