The War on Women

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

The usual Congressional misogynist psyops to paint warcriming males as defenders of life is now also being used as a news cycle
DECOY-DIVERSION countering the 8 military women suing the Pentagon's and Marine's highest leaders for creating a culture of rape.

Add the fuel to this fire of Eve Ensler and her anti-rape culture activism and therapeutic community for Congo rape victims.
All gaining visibility.

The CIA works hard to bolster the male military ruling classes' tattered moral status with this pre-emptive offensive shit.

Never forget-
Psyops is mostly about managing emotional perceptions of morality regarding ingroups vs outgroups and stereotypes.

[Stephen Morgan]

Just in the last week I have started to finally see numerous "Obama 2012" bumper sticker.

This thing is having the desired effect.

You think they're trying to throw the election?

[seemslikeadream]

If I insert ANY object into ANY orifice without informed consent, it is rape. And coercion of any kind negates consent, informed or otherwise.

Doctor Tells Fellow Physicians: No Coercive Ultrasounds – It’s Rape
by Joel Boyce
March 21, 2012
11:00 am

A physician has (anonymously) spoken out about recent state bills which would require women to submit to invasive transvaginal ultrasounds before being allowed to terminate a pregnancy. Similar bills have been proposed in Pennsylvania, Idaho and Virginia. The Idaho bill has passed the senate vote, although five Republican and seven Democrat senators opposed it, and is expected to pass at the House committee vote as well.

The unnamed physician wrote a sort of manifesto on medical ethics, calling on her or his fellow medical doctors to recall their medical oaths, and refuse to be political tools. It was published on science fiction author John Scalzi’s popular blog, Whatever, who vouches for the qualifications of the writer without revealing identifying information. The opening paragraphs take a similar position to that previously adopted by Doonesbury writer, Gary Trudeau:

I do not feel that it is reactionary or even inaccurate to describe an unwanted, non-indicated transvaginal ultrasound as “rape”. If I insert ANY object into ANY orifice without informed consent, it is rape. And coercion of any kind negates consent, informed or otherwise.

And

After all, it’s our hands that will supposedly be used to insert medical equipment (tools of HEALING, for the sake of all that is good and holy) into the vaginas of coerced women.

The writer goes on to suggest an organized protest against the legislation by the doctors expected to implement it:

It is our responsibility, as always, to protect our patients from things that would harm them. Therefore, as physicians, it is our duty to refuse to perform a medical procedure that is not medically indicated. Any medical procedure. Whatever the pseudo-justification.

It’s time for a little old-fashioned civil disobedience.

In practical terms, the writer advocates simply not performing the procedure, unless requested by the patient. The patient should then receive her proper medical care (up to and including the abortion procedure itself), and any necessary submitted documents should simply state that the ultrasound was a) refused, b) not deemed medically necessary.

These bills have been controversial from day one as women’s advocates have labeled them as an attempt to shame and emotionally blackmail women seeking abortions. Some legislators have removed references to specifically transvaginal ultrasounds in responseto public pressure, but it’s been pointed out that any successful ultrasound of a pregnancy in its first trimester would have to be the invasive kind of procedure anyway.

Even as I’ve been writing this, the original post on Whatever has been updated to effectively say that this message is going viral. It may well be that by that by this time tomorrow, a majority of practicing physicians in the United States will have heard about or read this call to action. It remains to be seen how many will respond to the call. We’ll keep you posted.

[seemslikeadream]

Man throws fire bomb at Democratic state senator Wendy Davis’ office in Texas

By Eric W. Dolan
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 0:20 EDT


At least two fire bombs were thrown at the Fort Worth office of state Sen. Wendy Davis (D) on Tuesday night, according to the Star Telegram.

Davis was not in her office at the time, but some staff members were present. They used a fire extinguisher to put out the small blaze.

No one was injured in the attack, but the lawmaker’s office was damaged by the fire.


“It’s unfortunate when things like this happen in the public arena,” she said. “It reminds us of how important it is for us to remain very civil in our discourse and to work not to foment this kind of anger in our community as we discuss things that are challenges that we all face and care about.”

Anthony Spangler, Davis’ communications director, said he had no idea what motivated the attack.

“We have an office that’s open to the public all the time, and so we’re always potentially vulnerable to things like this. We’re thankful that no one was injured. We hope that the investigation is concluded quickly and that they identify the suspect.”

A maintenance worker pursued the suspect out of the building, but was unable to catch him.

Davis is a first-term senator who beat a Republican incumbent in 2008. She had been locked in a court battle over redistricting.

“Thank you all for your expressions of support and concern,” she said on Twitter after the attack. “My team and I are concentrating on moving forward and staying focused.”

Watch video, courtesy of NBC 5 News, below:

[seemslikeadream]

Knit Your Congressman a Vagina
—By Michael Mechanic| Tue Mar. 20, 2012 3:30 AM PDT

Hey, a womb is just as good. MK Carroli
America's elected leaders, particularly those of the Republican male variety, have not done too well by women lately. In Congress, GOP legislators have sought to exempt religious orgs from having to offer health insurance that covers contraceptives. Mitt Romney replied lamely when confronted with Rush Limbaugh's Slutgate, and GOP lawmakers didn't exactly, ahem, rush to challenge their kingmaker. In Arizona and Kansas, Republican state legislators pushed bills allowing a doctor to lie about the health status of your fetus for fear you might opt to get an abortion. And should you make that harrowing choice, Virginia Republicans, following in the footsteps of their colleagues in a number of other states, passed a law requiring that you have an ultrasound first. They wanted it to be the kind where the doctor sticks a paddle into your vagina, but public outcry forced them to scale it back to the abdominal kind. Now, for good measure, GOP legislators are blocking the Violence Against Women Act.

We've already told you about these (pretty awesome) new laws proposed by Democratic legislators simply to mock their rivals' misogyny.

But the women behind Government Free VJJ have a different approach:

"Follow these simple steps," the website beckons...

1. Knit or crochet a vagina or uterus
2. Print a message to enclose
3. Mail it to your male Senator or Congressional Representative [links provided]
4. We’re in the process of arranging hand delivery to congressional offices in Washington, until then, go ahead and mail yours in!
5. Record your items in this spreadsheet so we can track which representatives still need to receive a "gift"!
6. Don't forget to thank your representative if he respects women and supports our rights.

The crochet patterns available so far include uterus and "happy uterus." For knitters, there's a vulva, a womb (pictured), felt cervixes, and (hey, why not?)—a "snatchel."

ALASKA LAWMAKER: WOMEN SHOULD OBTAIN PERMISSION FROM MEN BEFORE UNDERGOING AN ABORTION


| Like several conservative states across the country, Alaska is considering anti-abortion bills that would mandate ultrasounds for women seeking abortions and prohibit state agencies or employees from referring women to “abortion counseling, or another abortion-related service.” Such extreme measures have been rejected — and mocked — by the general public, and have also exposed the sexist and patronizing world views of their sponsors. For instance, a lawmaker in Idaho was recently forced to walk back his suggestion that “a doctor should ask a woman who says she was raped if the pregnancy could have been ’caused by normal relations in a marriage’ and now an Alaska legislator is facing blowback over an insensitive comment of his own. The Mudlfats reports that State Rep. Alan Dick recently “said that he doesn’t believe that when a woman is pregnant, it’s really ‘her pregnancy’” and “would advocate for criminalizing women who have an abortion without the permission via written signature from the man who impregnated her.” “If I thought that the man’s signature was required… required, in order for a woman to have an abortion, I’d have a little more peace about it,” he said. Such remarks suggest that the GOP’s effort to restrict access to abortion aren’t just about outlawing a particular procedure — they’re also aimed at ensuring that women are subservient to men.

[Nordic]

Just in the last week I have started to finally see numerous "Obama 2012" bumper sticker.

This thing is having the desired effect.

You think they're trying to throw the election?

"Throw?" I suppose that's one word for it. "Manage" is another. They're very good at managing things, especially the "news" stories.

I predict this whole "black teen murdered by the white "neighborhood watch" psycho" will be milked for WEEKS now for the same reason.

I've seen the perp described as a "white Latino". WTF does that mean?

Sorry, guess that's off topic, but yes, it seems transparently obvious to me that this has revved up Obama's otherwise dead-in-the-water campaign.

OBAMA WON'T TAKE AWAY YOUR BIRTH CONTROL LIKE THOSE NASTY REPUBS.

C'mon, has it really come to that?

I suppose it has.

Can we all own up to the fact that Obama is the Military Industrial Complex/Spook Universe/Wall Street nexus' WET DREAM? He's the PERFECT PUPPET.

He makes Ronald Reagan look like an amateur.

They'll do whatever it takes to get people to love him again.

And if it means a few women in Utah and Arizona get literally fucked over, so be it. They can get in line and sue somebody. The Empire will not be stopped.

Does anyone seriously think that the true Leaders of the Empire want either Romney or Santorum to head up the Executive Branch? When they've got the PERFECT PUPPET there for another four years?

Obama -- he won't rape you! GO OBAMA 2012!!

[justdrew]

up next, the republicans plan on holding up re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act

[seemslikeadream]

Redefining rape. Attacking the right to choose. Belitting victims of violence. The Republicans are on a rampage attacking women's health and rights this year. And if we don't speak up, they'll keep going. That's why we need to raise a ruckus, and get the word out about the GOP war on women. Make sure your friends see this!

Top 10 Shocking Attacks from the GOP's War on Women
1) Republicans not only want to reduce women's access to abortion care, they're actually trying to redefine rape. After a major backlash, they promised to stop. But they haven't yet. Shocker.

2) A state legislator in Georgia wants to change the legal term for victims of rape, stalking, and domestic violence to "accuser." But victims of other less gendered crimes, like burglary, would remain "victims."

3) In South Dakota, Republicans proposed a bill that could make it legal to murder a doctor who provides abortion care. (Yep, for real.)

4) Republicans want to cut nearly a billion dollars of food and other aid to low-income pregnant women, mothers, babies, and kids.

5) In Congress, Republicans have a bill that would let hospitals allow a woman to die rather than perform an abortion necessary to save her life.

6) Maryland Republicans ended all county money for a low-income kids' preschool program. Why? No need, they said. Women should really be home with the kids, not out working.
7) And at the federal level, Republicans want to cut that same program, Head Start, by $1 billion. That means over 200,000 kids could lose their spots in preschool.

8 Two-thirds of the elderly poor are women, and Republicans are taking aim at them too. A spending bill would cut funding for employment services, meals, and housing for senior citizens.

9) Congress just voted for a Republican amendment to cut all federal funding from Planned Parenthood health centers, one of the most trusted providers of basic health care and family planning in our country.

10) And if that wasn't enough, Republicans are pushing to eliminate all funds for the only federal family planning program. (For humans. But Republican Dan Burton has a bill to provide contraception for wild horses. You can't make this stuff up).

How The War on Women Opens the Door for Politics in Your Doctor's Office
Both Arizona and Kansas are considering bills giving doctors the legal authority to withhold potentially crucial information about a woman's health, and in this case her child's.
March 20, 2012

What does a government bureaucrat being between you and your doctor look like? That was the go-to canard to scare Americans away from the health care reform bill (or single payer for that matter). So, imagine your doctor decides he or she doesn’t want you to get a procedure. They don’t agree with it for whatever reason. Your doctor happily lies to you. Tells you – you don’t need it – everything is fine. You find out later your doctor, with political motivations, omitted facts from you, and your decisions based on what you thought was full information, later caused problems with your health. What precipitated your doctor's reckless and unethical behavior? A group of lawmakers decided you don’t have a right to know the truth about your medical condition so therefore a doctor’s fabrications cannot be grounds for a lawsuit.

Your doctors and those lawmakers have decided they know what’s best for you. And you have no recourse whatsoever.

Would you feel conspired against by your state legislature and your health care provider? Yes. And this is exactly what women of child bearing age are facing on a state level: making it okay to lie to pregnant women if it potentially avoids an abortion.

Both Arizona and Kansas are considering bills giving your doctor the legal authority to withhold potentially crucial information about your health and in this case your child’s.

This idea of lying to women has been in the quiver of the our-choice-for-you movement since before Roe v. Wade when abortion was legal only at the state level. In 1967, the first of what are now known as crisis pregnancy centers or fake abortion clinics was opened by a man named Robert Pearson in Hawaii. The blueprint for these ruses is still The Pearson Foundation’s manual, “How to Start and Operate Your Own Pro-Life Outreach Crisis Pregnancy Center,” published in 1984. Pearson writes, “Obviously, we’re fighting Satan. A killer, who in this case is the girl who wants to kill her baby, has no right to information that will help her kill her baby.”

In this case, Satan is a girl.

And Satan, being the father of all lies and all – doesn’t have the right to the truth when he gets knocked up.

In the right-wing-maligned health care reform bill were strides for women’s health, equality and autonomy. The buried lede about Obamacare is it forced insurance companies not to treat a womb as a preexisting condition. Recently it came to focus (while being declared a war on religion) that birth control must be covered by insurance even if the employer is a religious institution (the exception being an actual church). For the last decade, Viagra was covered by insurance, no problem, and the pill was not. A dysfunction for men was covered and a function for women was out-of-pocket. The Affordable Care Act changed that.

And the right-wing opposes this as a “government takeover of health care.” But when they want to endow your doctor with the ability to dictate their values in the form of dishonesty – health care (specifically women’s) needs to be taken over by government. Stat!

As a culture, would we tolerate this if it were any other medical condition besides pregnancy? What if your doctor was being paid by the soft drink industry to tell you your obesity isn’t from your 5-liter a day habit? What if your doctor didn’t approve of vaccinations and you actually get Meningitis? What if your doctor thought it wasn’t right to tell you about your cancer screening results while in its operable window? And what if some yahoo state lawmakers decided - against all ethics and medical research - to agree with your quack doctor?

If those things seem outrageous then lying to pregnant women has to be too. If we want to live in a society where women have the same rights as men, being of child-bearing ability can’t be a caveat to equality.

Either women have equal rights under the law or they’re public incubators. And according to these attempted laws in Arizona and Kansas – we’re not equal.

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

In CIA-Disney's 'The Princess and the Frog' (the one touted for having a black 'princess')
the villain is a voodoo-doin' hustler look-alike of Obama.

Rent it. Watch the 'voodoo' symbols that float around during his segments to represent 'dark forces.'
Watch these scenes frame by frame.

You will see a nearly subliminal graphic of the female reproductive system with arrows going out implying 'abortion' that
looks a lot like this-


This is designed to peel away black Christians who reject abortion as a women's right to control her body.

[Nordic]

You know, you're right, Hugh, it's amazing how much black people look alike!

[Nordic]

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9f10f208-7ce1 ... z1quiVqxRW

Women voters surge to Obama

Barack Obama has opened a large lead over Mitt Romney among women voters after the recent conservative debate in the US over contraception, according to a new poll, tempering Republican relief that the party’s prolonged nomination fight is coming to an end.

Mr Romney is hoping to cement his hold on the 2012 Republican presidential candidate nomination in today’s primaries in Wisconsin, Maryland and Washington, all of which he is strongly favoured to win. But as he prepares to switch focus to Mr Obama, Mr Romney will also have to shed some of the baggage his party has accumulated during its campaign fight.

Even with improving employment figures, Mr Obama has struggled to win voters’ trust on the economy. Despite this, over the past month he has turned a slight deficit with voters in 12 battleground states into a nine-point advantage, according to a poll by USA Today, largely on the basis of a surge in support from women. The US president now leads Mr Romney by a margin of nearly two-to-one among women, the paper’s survey found, more than wiping out the Republican’s large advantage with white male voters.

Republican criticism of a White House decision to force church-affiliated employers to cover contraception in health insurance was transformed by Democrats from an issue of religious freedom to one of women’s health.

Last month’s contraception debate also coincided with Republican efforts to cut public funding for Planned Parenthood, an abortion provider, and new anti-abortion rules introduced by conservative governors. Mr Romney, who has vowed to cut federal funding for Planned Parenthood but not supported a revival of curbs on contraception, must tread carefully on social issues for fear of alienating the party’s base.
His wife, Ann, who has proved herself an accomplished campaigner in the primaries, has pressed an alternative line in public, that women are more concerned about jobs rather than anything else.
Mr Romney’s biggest party rival, the social conservative Rick Santorum, insists he will fight on beyond Tuesday’s primaries and continues to raise what he says is the front-runner’s weakness against Mr Obama on healthcare. As governor in Massachusetts, Mr Romney introduced health reforms containing a mandate requiring people to buy insurance – similar to Mr Obama’s reform, which is now being challenged before the Supreme Court.

“Republicans need a nominee with the credibility to take on President Obama on an issue vital to voters and a president who will repeal ObamaCare – I will be that president,” he said in Wisconsin on Monday.
But Mr Santorum has also for the first time publicly acknowledged that Mr Romney is in sight of the 1,144 delegates to needs to seal the nomination.

This coincides with my local and anecdotal observation that I never saw a single Obama 2012 bumper sticker until this "war on women" thing was invented.

Branding. It works!

Obama. He won't rape you. Obama 2012!!

[Pele'sDaughter]

He won't rape you.

But how on earth can they overlook the fact that he lied in 2008 and will no doubt do so again in this campaign. That hopium is some strong stuff.

[Nordic]

Yeah I pretty much burn from head to toe when I see an Obama 2012 sticker.

I mean, its one thing to be Judas, its quite another to follow Judas.

[Project Willow]

http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2012/03/31/at-11th-hour-georgia-passes-women-as-livestock-bill/

At 11th Hour, Georgia Passes “Women as Livestock” Bill

March 31, 2012 by Lauren Barbato · 28 Comments

After an emotional 14-hour workday that included fist-fights between lobbyists and a walk-out by women Democrats, the Georgia House passed a Senate-approved bill Thursday night that criminalizes abortion after 20 weeks.

The bill, which does not contain rape or incest exemptions, is expected to receive a signature from Republican Gov. Nathan Deal.

Commonly referred to as the “fetal pain bill” by Georgian Republicans and as the “women as livestock bill” by everyone else, HB 954 garnered national attention this month when state Rep. Terry England (R-Auburn) compared pregnant women carrying stillborn fetuses to the cows and pigs on his farm. According to Rep. England and his warped thought process, if farmers have to “deliver calves, dead or alive,” then a woman carrying a dead fetus, or one not expected to survive, should have to carry it to term.

The bill as first proposed outlawed all abortions after 20 weeks under all circumstances. After negotiations with the Senate, the House passed a revised HB 954 that makes an exemption for “medically futile” pregnancies or those in which the woman’s life or health is threatened.

If this makes its seem like Rep. England and the rest of the representatives looked beyond their cows and pigs and recognized women as capable, full-thinking human beings, think again: HB 954 excludes a woman’s “emotional or mental condition,” which means women suffering from mental illness would be forced to carry a pregnancy to term. It also ignores pregnant women who are suicidal and driven to inflict harm on themselves because of their unwanted pregnancy.

In order for a pregnancy to be considered “medically futile,” the fetus must be diagnosed with an irreversible chromosomal or congenital anomaly that is “incompatible with sustaining life after birth.” The Georgia “fetal pain” bill also stipulates that the abortion must be performed in such a way that the fetus emerges alive. If doctors perform the abortion differently, they face felony charges and up to 10 years in prison. Given all this, the so-called compromise suddenly does not look like much of a bargain.

rest at the link

[Stephen Morgan]

Haven't you seen the news about the Supreme Court decision on strip searches? This is being widely interpreted as a blanket cavity-search-who-you-like, so where does that come into your "Vote Obama, he won't rape you" scheme?