The Height Of GOP Stupidity, Part Four: The GOP Platform Calls For Constitutional Ban On Abortion

Well, well, well, in the wake of the Todd Akin mess-which includes the Paul Ryan mess--on abortion, and a woman's right to choose, comes word that the 2012 Republican Party platform includes support for a constitutional ban on abortion without specifying exclusions in the cases of rape or incest.

Yes, rape, illegitimate, forcible rape.

According to CNN, the GOP platform states: 

"Faithful to the 'self-evident' truths enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, we assert the sanctity of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed. We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment's protections apply to unborn children."

That's the GOP, less concerned with the economy, but very concerned with the choices women should be allowed to make for their own health and well-being. 

The height of stupidity.

And here are some more GOP lies and stupidity regarding women and the fact that many in the GOP think they need to be controlled and told what to do:

• Earlier this year, a New Hampshire lawmaker came up with a new reason the government should not require health insurance companies to provide contraception. Representative Jeanine Nadler, a Republican of course, said, "As a man, would it interest you to know that Dr. Brownstein just published an article that links the pill to prostate cancer?"
• Also in 2012, the New Hampshire House in 2012 passed a bill to require doctors to tell women seeking abortions that the procedure can cause breast cancer.
• GOP mouthpiece drug addict, and blowhard, Rush Limbaugh showed he has no understanding of how birth control pills work when he attacked Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown law student barred from testifying as a Democratic witness at a congressional hearing about the Obama administration's contraception policy. He called her a “slut” for needing birth control: "She wants to be paid to have sex. SDhe’s having so much sex she can't afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex." 
• And that bastion of intellectual depravity, Rick “Frothy Mix” Santorum also weighed in on the subject. Warning about the “dangers” of contraception.
• Terri Proud, a Republican state legislator in Arizona sent an email to her constituents saying she wanted women who were considering abortion to be forced to watch the procedure first: "Personally I'd like to make a law that mandates a woman watch an abortion being performed prior to having a 'surgical procedure.
• Just before Idaho's Senate passed a mandatory ultrasound bill in March, the bill’s Republican sponsor, Senator Chuck Winder, made some inane comments about abortion and rape: "Rape and incest was used as a reason to oppose this. I would hope that when a woman goes in to a physician with a rape issue, that physician will indeed ask her about perhaps her marriage, was this pregnancy caused by normal relations in a marriage or was it truly caused by a rape. I assume that's part of the counseling that goes on." 
• Former GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum made prenatal testing a campaign issue when he said the tests are designed to "cull the ranks of the disabled in our society" by encouraging abortions: "Amniocentesis does, in fact, result more often than not in this country in abortions. That is a fact.” Well, not so much; more than 90% of amniocenteses tests result in normal diagnoses, and half of fetuses diagnosed with severe abnormalities—some 5% of those tested—result in abortions being performed.
• When GOP asshat Rick Perry was running for president, he was blasted by his fellow Repugnants for signing an executive order mandating the HPV vaccine for young girls, and misinformation quickly spread.
• Batshit crazy Republican, and blatant liar, Michele Bachmann insinuated that the HPV vaccine causes mental retardation.
• The debate over the Obama administration's contraception policy yielded some puzzling claims about birth control and Plan B. House Speaker, and Republican crybaby, John Boehner urged his colleagues to reverse Obama's mandate for health insurance coverage of "abortion-inducing drugs."  And, yet again, Michele Bachmann weighed in, calling Plan B an abortion pill when she lied about Obama making the drug available over-the-counter: "The president can put abortion pills for girls 8 years of age, 11 years of age, on the bubblegum aisle." In fact, contraceptives, emergency or not, prevent pregnancy. They don't cause abortions.
• The Arizona Senate passed a bill in March to protect doctors from "wrongful birth" lawsuits—effectivley allowing them to withhold information that may lead a patient to get an abortion. Kansas lawmakers have considered similar legislation.

So, you think the GOP has the best interests of women in mind, or are they, mostly men, and a few batshit crazy women, trying to control what woman can, and cannot do, regarding their own health and their own bodies?

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