GOP Pushing For IRS Abortion Audits - Seriously

The GOP war on women is getting worse everyday. We now have a bill, that could subject survivors of rape and incest to audits by the Internal Revenue Service, if they choose abortion. Here's how this attack on women would work. The bill, H.R.3, could forbid using tax benefits -- like credits or deductions -- to pay for abortion or health insurance that includes abortion coverage. If a woman who claimed a tax benefit for an abortion service were to be audited, she would have to provide proof that her abortion fell under the rape or incest exception. According to a tax expert, if this bill becomes law, the IRS would have to enforce it. NARAL Pro-Choice America says, "Not only would a woman have to describe her sexual assault to the police, but she could then be forced to relive that horrifying experience with an agent from the IRS." Even more outrageously, the burden of proof would be on the woman to show that her assault was valid. Keep your receipts ladies.

This nonsense gets more outrageous and insulting by the day. Why has a legal medical procedure become fodder in a country that is supposed to separate church and state? Why is there not an outcry across this nation by self-respecting women and progressive men? Are we really that Foxed up? Here's another idea to go hand-in-hand. Every man who uses Viagra or any other ED medication must submit a sample to be stored in a bank for identification. If it is determined that the sample was likely involved in an unintended pregnancy, he would have to prove that he used all precautions necessary to prevent that pregnancy. If he can not prove he used all necessary precautions, any and all tax refunds for the next 18 years go to Planned Parenthood. How does that sound guys?

I have to say, I'm extremely distressed that women like Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann who believe in subservience have become icons to many women in this country. They are taking us back to the Phyllis Schlafly time machine where women did what the male controlled society expected them to do. It's a very scary time for young women in this country. I just can't get my head around the notion of looking up to these women who think that looking good for the "men-folk" is good enough to get them by. Why are women like Hillary Clinton, Rachel Maddow, Nancy Pelosi and Debbie Wasserman Schultz mocked as less than ideal women? They are actual success stories! I remember when Palin first burst on the scene and watching how some guys were looking at her, talking about her; while they were picturing her as the "dirty librarian who's going to give him a spanking." Meanwhile, conservative women bought the great mom/successful career woman spiel, never mind that her teenage daughter got knocked up under her own roof. These people vote! They couldn't care less that their so-called attractive (very subjective) female and just-like-me (maybe as stupid, not wealth) candidates can't tell the difference between North and South Korea or New Hampshire and Massachusetts. The men care about watching them on the TV machine and fantasizing about what they would do to them if they got them alone and the women think about having coffee and discussing the kids.
Please read more at: Mother Jones: GOP Would Force IRS to Conduct Abortion Audits

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SD Opening the Door To Making 'Some' Murders Justified

What on earth is going on? I thought Republicans were swept into office to create jobs?  That's what they said they were going to do.  As of yet, no jobs bills, but plenty of anti-womens legislation. According to Talking Points Memo, State Rep. Phil Jensen (R), introduced the bill which makes it a "justifiable homicide" for someone to kill someone attempting to harm an unborn child. At first glance, it appears innocuous enough. However, the fear is this law will create open season on abortion providers. Alisha Sedor, the executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice South Dakota, said she was worried the legislation could trigger attacks on abortion providers if it was not amended. "I don't believe the intent is malicious," Sedor said. "But the potential legal implications of the bill are what make it dangerous.  If it passes without an amendment exempting attacks on providers, it could incite violence from individuals who believe their actions will be found justifiable in court." While they acknowledge that abortion is legal, we're talking South Dakota and you know there's some slick right wing lawyers ready to make this a showcase. In the past five years, state legislators passed laws twice banning most abortions unless they were necessary to save a woman's life. In both cases, the laws were subsequently overturned by the state's voters at the polls.

Elizabeth Nash, a policy analyst at the Guttmacher Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based pro-choice group that has been tracking state abortion laws since the early 1970s, said, the proposed law was the first of its kind. "We have not seen anything like this before," Nash said. "It's really chilling."

I'm disgusted at the backwards track this country is taking. Somewhere along the way, it appears that conservative "men folk" decided that the liberation of women has proved to be a disastrous experiment and it's time to return women to their humble beginnings ... barefoot, pregnant and property. I totally expect the 19th Amendment to be challenged next in the Republican controlled House. Don't forget, the unwanted children of the today's poor will be the next generations soldiers for our perpetual war machine.