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They’re Coming for Roe

Jill

A must-watch video:

They’re Coming for Roe from Center for Reproductive Rights on Vimeo.

Yet again, Republicans are trying to re-define rape in order to cut off access to abortion services.

Video transcript below the fold.

HEY’RE COMING FOR ROE

FADE IN:

[text]

On the chopping block in Congress:
-Insurance coverage for abortions
-Life-saving care for women in all hospitals
-Abortion coverage for rape victims

Think that’s as far as anti-choice lawmakers will go?
Can go?

Think again.

[TV turns on]

Rep. Steve King (R-IA): We will see the end of Roe v Wade in our time!
Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN): Sadly, abortion on demand is legal in America.
Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA): Abortion is not health care.
Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN): Future generations will place Roe vs Wade alongside the terrible Dred Scott decision.
Rep. John Fleming (R-LA): I’ve seen people get more upset about a dying pet than they have in giving up their pregnancy.
Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ): New evidence has uncovered a clear link between abortion and mental illness in women.
Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN): I long for the day that Roe vs Wade is sent to the scrapheap of history.
Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN): And demagoguing language about some kind of war on women is nothing but laughable.

[text]

Anti-choice lawmakers are on the warpath. And they’re coming for you.

Legislation is being introduced right now that is: anti-woman, anti-child, anti-health.

Stop these bills from setting women’s rights back a lifetime.

Take action today at http://ahugestepback.com.

16 thoughts on They’re Coming for Roe

  1. I didn’t watch the video because I am work and I already think this is digusting, republicans just need to stop

  2. I HATE birthdays, and I’m only 17. I get really pessimistic around that time every year and ALWAYS cry at some point during the day. I’m not sure why, but I think it’s because I’m super-self conscious on the day that’s supposedly all about me.

  3. I watch this with the weight of my country having given a blatant woman-hater a majority parliament last night and it makes me very, very sad. The things that could be accomplished if powerful governments didn’t try so hard to move time backwards for gender relations and policies. Honestly.

    I just want to know what happened to these guys to make them hate women so much.

  4. Valerie:
    I watch this with the weight of my country having given a blatant woman-hater a majority parliament last night and it makes me very, very sad. The things that could be accomplished if powerful governments didn’t try so hard to move time backwards for gender relations and policies. Honestly.

    I just want to know what happened to these guys to make them hate women so much.

    This. I fear that it’s only a matter of time now before we start seeing this kind of stuff coming through Parliament. Harper was more than willing to cut foreign aid to entities providing abortion access. Why wouldn’t he try to restrict access here in Canada? Well, because as a minority government, he didn’t have the power, since he’d have to get both the Grits and the NDP on his side.

    What now I ask?

  5. andrea: This.I fear that it’s only a matter of time now before we start seeing this kind of stuff coming through Parliament.Harper was more than willing to cut foreign aid to entities providing abortion access.Why wouldn’t he try to restrict access here in Canada?Well, because as a minority government, he didn’t have the power, since he’d have to get both the Grits and the NDP on his side.

    What now I ask?

    I found this when I was writing a blog entry about the anniversary of the Montreal Massacre. It’s obviously out of date as the Cons have done a lot more damage to the status of women in Canada (including shutting down all but four Offices on the Status of Women), but it shows that reversing abortion decisions and healthcare options aren’t our only concerns as women.
    http://www.caw.ca/en/3679.htm

    This dude is so evil, it’s completely astonishing. A lot of people say that even the most conservative of leaders in Canada are still “more left” than the Democrats in the USA, and in a lot of cases that’s true–but I’d take Obama over Harper a zillion times over. And it seems like the only progressive influence over Harper Canadians have to look forward to will come from Obama. I sincerely hope he gets re-elected. If not, the entire continent will be boned.

  6. Valerie: I found this when I was writing a blog entry about the anniversary of the Montreal Massacre. It’s obviously out of date as the Cons have done a lot more damage to the status of women in Canada (including shutting down all but four Offices on the Status of Women), but it shows that reversing abortion decisions and healthcare options aren’t our only concerns as women.
    http://www.caw.ca/en/3679.htm

    This dude is so evil, it’s completely astonishing. A lot of people say that even the most conservative of leaders in Canada are still “more left” than the Democrats in the USA, and in a lot of cases that’s true–but I’d take Obama over Harper a zillion times over. And it seems like the only progressive influence over Harper Canadians have to look forward to will come from Obama. I sincerely hope he gets re-elected. If not, the entire continent will be boned.

    Hmm.. I’m being told I need additional plug-ins to view the page, and subsequently that there are no suitable plug-ins to be found.

    Sometimes I wish I was more techie.

  9. “Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN): And demagoguing language about some kind of war on women is nothing but laughable.”

    Pushing legislation that will largely restrict and freedoms and rights of women and teen-aged girls and force them against their will to go through with pregnancies, a life-changing event that in many cases they have little to no choice in if these kinds of laws are passed. It treats women as vessels for a specific duty, not human beings who have lives of their own. It’s only ‘laughable’ when you’re not the woman in that situation huh?

  10. I’m so sick of hearing from the stale, pale, male force what they think about abortions.

    Three of those dudes (that I counted, anyway) were fellow Hoosiers. In fact, Todd Rokita spoke at my master’s graduation commencement a few years ago. It was *literally* the most stressful 15 minutes of my graduate career and a horrible note to end on. The speech was so, so partisan. He seems incapable of saying anything that doesn’t directly promote a conservative agenda. His assertion that a war on women is laughable doesn’t surprise me in the slightest. He’s very good at being incapable of seeing the world beyond his own nose.

    I would really, really like him and Mike Pence to go away. Far away. Forever.

  11. Valerie: http://thegigglingtornado.squarespace.com/audio/halloweenies/CAW_WM_election-web-2.pdf

    Finally got it figured out. Thanks for linking to that. I wish I had seen this before yesterday, I would have plastered it all over Twitter, Facebook, my blog, whathaveyou.

    Today all I really want to do is drink excessively. Anyway though, /thread derail

    Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ): New evidence has uncovered a clear link between abortion and mental illness in women.

    Um, confounding variables, anyone? Correlation =/= causality. But this sure makes it sound like it does.

    He’s trying to make it sound like abortion causes mental illness. If anything I’d say the correlation is possibly reversed. Admittedly, psychiatry and neuroscience are not my specialties but I was under the impression that most mental illnesses (please help me out if there’s a better term i could be using – Neuroatypicalities?), with the exception of PTSD, are congenital in origin?

    Adding to that, as some commenters have mentioned in previous threads, there are problematic dialogues that discourage non-neurotypical women from motherhood. There’s one of your confounding variables there.

  14. I know almost everyone reading this site already knows this, but I can’t stop myself from commenting that these same a$$hats who work to make abortion illegal are the same ones slashing services to the poor, which disproportionately affect children. I would not vote for an anti-choice candidate under ANY circumstances, but I think they should all be legally (as they are already MORALLY) obligated to fund the “lives” of those “babies” they are so desperately “concerned” for.

    But the real problem here, IMO, is not the Right, but those on the Left who continue to sell out women all over the place.

  15. Maybe all the NA women need to make a mass exodus to Europe. Now that Harper has a majority here, and it looking like Republicans are making a come back in the States, I’m actually making it part of my 5 year plan to leave this continent for one where I’m still considered a person before it’s too late…

  16. alynn: I’m so sick of hearing from the stale, pale, male force what they think about abortions.

    Yeah, I couldn’t help but notice that they were all white guys, too. -_-

    Also, the thing about caring more about a dying pet? I don’t even know where to start with that one. I don’t know, maybe that maybe that person actually wanted that pet? It’s one thing to choose to have a pet (or a child, if we’re going to compare the two, which has all kinds of problems by itself); it’s another to have one forced on you. Just sayin’.

    ajkl;sejgnivaer;klnaewgijlasdl;kfj !!!

    I think I’m just going to cry right now.

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