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Panich52

(5,829 posts)
Wed May 6, 2015, 04:46 PM May 2015

Now Tell Me There's No GOP War On Women!

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Now Tell Me There's No GOP War On Women!

I'm so outraged as I'm writing this that I'm going to have to be extra careful about typos, etc.

Republicans in Congress have passed a bill that would make it perfectly legal for your boss to fire you for using birth control - but only if you're a woman!

They'd never be able to pass this if it were a federal law (at least, as of now) but this piece of Republican demagoguery is for the District of Columbia (aka Washington, DC), the only area of the continental United States that has no vote in congress.  

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Oh, but wait - it's not just birth control.  Your boss could also fire you for using in vitro fertilization.
I feel like I've awakened in a time warp, back to the year 1850 (or maybe 1750).  It's probably better for my blood pressure to just let these two articles tell the rest of this incredible but real, horrendously outrageous tale.  But first, this definition for a relatively newly coined word in the War on Women: Gynotician:  A politician who feels more qualified than women and their doctors to make women's health care decisions. (emphasis added)

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Now Tell Me There's No GOP War On Women! (Original Post) Panich52 May 2015 OP
Gynotician brer cat May 2015 #1
I thought word a keeper, too. Why I hilighted it. Panich52 May 2015 #2
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