Weasels Work Overtime to Impede Women's Heath Care Decisions

It's Real - Never Doubt It 

(and getting more blatant and complex)

GOP Strong on Defense and Strong Against Women

(their latest stealth weapon - actually not so new)

Hot Off the Press as It Were;

Beside most well-known efforts in budgets like against Planned Parenthood, there are more ways national “leaders” work hard to deny or ban reproductive rights as seen here.

1.  Banning abortions after 20 weeks: In an attempt to avoid a government shutdown while still giving national lawmakers a chance to air their anti-abortion sentiments, Republicans recently advanced a bill that would ban most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The bill is based on the much-debated concept that a fetus can feel pain after a certain amount of gestation time in the womb, even though scientific evidence suggests that fetuses don’t feel pain until after the point of viability, which occurs later. While it passed in the House, Senate Democrats quashed the bill.

2.  Defunding Planned Parenthood for one year: The House passed a standalone bill seeking to defund Planned Parenthood for a one-year period — which would eliminate roughly $255 million in federal funds for the organization, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Earlier this month, CBO released data illustrating how the federal savings would likely burden the low-income women who would be cut off from reliable sources of health care. If this defunding became permanent, CBO said it could deprive as many as 650,000 women of access to health care. President Obama said he would veto this bill.

3.  Prohibiting research on human fetal tissue: A July bill introduced by House Representatives proposes to ban the use of all human fetal tissue from abortions in research. This is the only national bill proposed that directly targets the actual issue conservatives said they have with the Planned Parenthood videos: The use of fetal tissue recovered from abortions in scientific research. Leading scientists have said that pulling the plug on this type of research would have catastrophic effects on crucial medical studies and the patients they address. Fetal tissue has played a major role in creating vital vaccines, aiding research in new ways to treat a host of degenerative diseases, and even helping defend an unborn child in the womb from illness.

4.  Incarcerating doctors who mishandle live-birth abortions: The House and Senate both recently introduced bills penalizing doctors involved in live-birth abortions who fail to give “appropriate care” to the baby, and the House passed the measure. Under this legislation, doctors could be sentenced to five years in prison if they don’t administer lifesaving treatment to fetuses that are born alive after attempted abortions — an implicit way of suggesting that abortion providers like Planned Parenthood are currently breaking the law. The ACLU says this broad legislation, which is misleadingly titled the “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act,’’ is another tactic to “intimidate abortion providers and drive them out of practice.”

5.  Banning dismemberment abortions: NJ Rep. Chris Smith (R) introduced a bill that would prohibit fetal “dismemberment abortions” — a dramatized term for the most common way to perform a surgical abortion after the first trimester. The WHO says this technique, medically referred to as “D&E: Dilation and Evacuation” is the safest and most efficient way to conduct a later abortion. Bans have already been enacted in Kansas and Oklahoma while a few other states may soon follow suit.

Still there are those who say: "There's no GOP War on a Woman’s Right to Choose and Make Her Own Health Care Decisions.” 

Okee, dokee, then …