The men who run the Republican Party caucus on Capitol Hill are facing a determined foe.
They happen to be the women who comprise the rank and file of GOP legislators.
The battleground? It’s abortion. Men of the GOP? You’re in for a fight.
You go, ladies.
Female Republican House members are rising up against anti-abortion legislation that would stop abortions at the 20-week mark of a pregnancy. The legislation contains language about rape and suggests that even women who become pregnant as a result of a savage sexual assault must carry the pregnancy to full term. The provision in the bill required that women who are raped had to report the incident to police to be exempted from the 20-week rule. Some Republican moderate women said as many as 70 percent of rapes go unreported by women.
This is what happens when men — who know not a single thing about some of these intensely personal issues — make laws affecting women.
Congress intended to pass this legislation out on the 42nd anniversary of the historic Roe vs. Wade decision in the Supreme Court that stated the Constitution protects a woman’s right to end a pregnancy.
Conservatives are angry over the GOP moderates’ torpedoing of the legislation. Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council, said the women will be “held accountable.”
Baloney.
They’ve acted responsibly and their voices need to be heard on this issue that only they understand.