The Real Costs of Politicians' Obsession With Reproductive Rights
The Real Costs of Politicians' Obsession With Reproductive Rights
by NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado Political Director Cross-posted on HuffingtonPost Denver From Rick Santorum's claim to "take the bullets" as proof of his pro-life credentials to Michele Bachmann's, Newt Gingrich's, Ron Paul's, Tim Pawlenty's and Santorum's signing Marilyn Musgrave's Susan B. Anthony List pledge to systemically strip away a woman's ability to access safe, legal abortion if elected president, the GOP's anti-abortion, anti-birth control contingent is all too willing to sell out America's women and their families in their quest to out-pro-life each other. To wit: Four of Colorado's Congressional Delegation -- Mike Coffman (R, CD-6), Cory Gardner (R, CD-4), Doug Lamborn (R, CD-5), and Scott Tipton (R, CD-3) -- all voted for provisions in federal legislation to spur the IRS to audit rape and incest survivors who choose abortion care and to raise taxes on small businesses that provide private insurance plans that cover abortion services. But politicians' insistence on interfering in reproductive health care doesn't stop with abortion: while June marks the 46th year that birth control has been legal in the U.S., attacks on contraception have reached nearly unprecedented levels in 2011. Anti-abortion, anti-birth control members of the U.S. House of Representatives supported budget provisions earlier this year to completely eliminate federal funding for Title X, a program established under President Nixon to ensure, in Nixon's words, "no American woman [would] be denied access to family planning assistance because of her economic condition." Federal law prohibits the use of Title X dollars for abortion, restricting use to ... (read full article at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/toni-panetta/the-real-costs-of-politic_b_883010.html)
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