The GOP War on Women - The Megathread

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None of this is by any means 'the extreme' wing of the party anymore.

Aren't any of you with a brain and a heart ashamed?!?

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The single motherhood bill is pretty stupid and they probably shouldn't be holding the domestic violence bill hostage but otherwise I'm fine with this.

Abortion is murder (which many of you disagree with but nevertheless consider the consequences of that statement for a moment). That means somewhat extraordinary means can be used to stop it from occurring. Planned Parenthood murders 1.5% of its patients, so I have absolutely no problem with making is more difficult for them to get money.

Just so we're clear: You're advocating the punishment for murder--15 to life in Ohio-for any woman that knowingly terminates her pregnancy? I likewise presume that you support mandatory bindover to the adult court system for any juvenile teenage girl who commits Murder (again, as is the law in Ohio)?

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The Democrats pushing this "War on Women" issue is tiresome. Everyone knows Republicans have issues with women, why do they have to talk about it all the time?

Because if they don't the Republicans will get away with it, duh. You don't just ignore an issue like this if you want it to go away.

QFT.

Never used that term before, but this post deserved it.

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And then here's the reality:

That chart is based on number of services provided, not on how much money Planned Parenthood makes from them.  Even assuming the profit margin is equal on all services, because an abortion costs considerably more than most of those other services, abortion has to be providing more than 3% of revenues.

While that doesn't change the fact that Mr. Patrick is engaging in hyperbole by claiming that abortion was the sole revenue source for Planned Parenthood, that doesn't change the validity of his question: "Why are they closing clinics if they’re making money on providing women’s health?"

Without commenting on the underlying issue, arguably abortions have considerably more expenses incurred to perform, and thus it's an assumption that the rate of profit isn't considerably different compared to their other services?

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This attempt by the CO-GOP to introduce women voters to their all-male line-up of gubernatorial candidates was... well, let's just say there's still a lot of work to do.