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yewberry

(6,530 posts)
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 06:34 PM Feb 2012

Confessions of a thinking woman

Grievances against the GOP from a (former?) Republican Woman

I was raised in a conservative, Republican, military family. I support personal freedom and personal responsibility. I support the military. I support a balanced budget. I support individual rights and the constitution. I support small government. But I find myself increasingly separated from the Republican Party, and this is why:

I cannot align myself with a party that repeatedly acts to restrict the rights of women, to deny women protection from abuse and violence, and to trample the rights of women to make their own medical decisions. I cannot support a party where individual rights and freedoms are only protected for people with a penis (so long as they are not gay).


confessions-of-a-thinking-woman.blogspot.com/2012/02/grievances-against-gop-from-former.html

Actually a pretty good read. It's interesting to see a republican processing the attacks on women's freedom.
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