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Quick pop quiz for women voter especially those of the Republican persuasion: When you go in the voting booth, do you leave your birth control pills at home or are they in your purse? Next question: You find out that your male co-worker who does the same job as you makes more money than you, do you (a) congratulate him because he needs more money to take care of his family or (b) complain to management and get your fair share? I bet you’re leaning toward choice (a) aren’t you? I ask such weird questions because of the recent craziness surrounding legislation in several states and nationally that has sought to limit/curtail women’s reproductive rights and Republican women voters deafening silence on this and many other issues affecting them.

Remember the Blunt Amendment which would have allowed employers to opt out of providing health care coverage they disagree with on moral grounds. Remember that creepy bill in the Virginia legislature that mandated women to undergo a transvaginal ultrasound, a procedure that required a probe be inserted into the vagina before an abortion. It was later amended to an external ultrasound but still the nerve of even introducing it. In Georgia, state law makers considered a bill which would have prevented women from obtaining an abortion after 20 weeks, down from 26. Read it and weep then get a group together and protest because these are all assaults on your reproductive rights and more specifically on your right to have an abortion should you choose to. The bigger picture is conservative men and women(mostly men) legislators pushing their morals on you, they are in fact legislating morality which brings me to some Republican women in Congress voting against the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009.

Some are very vocal and proud of that vote, one in particular is Cathy McMorris Rodgers(R-WA) who the Romney campaign is using to placate his non-stance on whether he would have signed the bill into law if he were president. Rachel Maddow took her to task for voting against it on a recent Meet the Press and she just sat there with a stupid grin on her face and said NOTHING to defend herself. But what could she say, the vote on the act was split down party lines with opponents citing lawsuits and arguing that employees could delay filing their claims in the hope of reaping bigger rewards. It was the first of many NO votes from the party of NO but I’m still not understanding Republican women voting against their best interest to walk the party line especially where it concerns the pocketbook. I’ll grant a minute bit of understanding about the abortion issue in that many feel that it’s morally wrong to abort a baby but there are times when you have to fight to keep a right that you don’t necessarily agree with because you never know when some right you believe in may come under fire.

It’s time for women, especially Republican women, to stand up and let their voices be heard; after all it’s your rights that are being attacked.  Yes, even those of you who legislate! Do you really want to turn the clock back on things such as abortion and equal pay?

Posted by Libergirl