Posted on 11/04/2010 11:59:32 AM PDT by Racehorse
US women's groups Thursday were bracing for a fight over abortion rights and gender equality with the new conservative majority in Congress.
"We now face an anti-choice majority and a new speaker of the House who will threaten to roll back hard-fought progress for women," said Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), the largest women's group in the United States.
Republicans by Wednesday had picked up 60 seats in the 435-seat House of Representatives, well more than the 39 they needed for a majority.
At least 49 of the newcomers to the House are opposed to women having the right to choose to have an abortion, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights.
Republicans also grabbed six more seats in the 100-member Senate but failed to win a majority.
Pro-choice senators still have a slim majority, with two races -- one of which includes a pro-choice woman candidate -- yet to be decided.
O'Neill predicted that the new Republican leadership in the House will take moves that would compromise women's rights.
"They will try to repeal the health care reform law, privatize or cut Social Security, cut funding for family-planning programs, undermine equal marriage initiatives, and try to weaken Roe v. Wade," the 1973 Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal in the United States.
O'Neill warned that soon-to-be speaker of the House, John Boehner, "has made it no secret that he is anti-choice and anti-equal marriage," but vowed to fight him and his conservative phalanx in the House with the help of progressive lawmakers who managed to survive the midterm election bloodbath.
(Excerpt) Read more at google.com ...
Why does anybody, on either side, think any significant changes are going to happen here? This issue was decided by the Supreme Court almost 40 years ago. There’s not much the rest of us can do about it.
Like that woman (single) who was preggo with triplets and decided she couldn’t handle that many kids at one time so she aborted two of them.
Yeah, but they won’t vote for any pro-death legislation either.
Keep your pants on & your legs together & it won’t be a problem.
Not a damn thing. They still claim that women earn the same reduced salery percentage than men that they were claiming 45 years ago.
...blah, blah, terrible time for civil rights, blah, blah, racism, sexism on the rise, blah, blah, reverse all the advancements made, blah, blah, party of evil white men who judge everyone by race and gender, blah, blah....
A whole other story.
The only thing any citizens needs to understand and accept is the taxpayer is not obligated to fund abortions.
Want to abort? Have at it.
Womyn= Homo sapiens biological units which choose to serve no species-useful purpose.
In my younger years I believed in ‘choice’
and was as angry as any of them that a man
thought he could tell me what to do with my body.
However...the Good Lord saw fit to open
my eyes and I couldn’t be more against the
vile procedure.
I tell anyone now that I do believe in choice:
that a woman (usually) has the choice to have sex
or not with a partner that may or not be a father
material at any time in her life that a baby may or
not be a good result of her choice to have sex with
said partner.
Most abortions are sought by women who made
the wrong choice to begin with, and there is NO
serious argument that can be made against
that fact.
More like a human organism hijacked by a hungry demonic parasite.
The host is already dead. So...
Lordy, I sure hope so!!
I don’t think either that they should assume that women are never pro-life. And it’s insulting not to use that term. Life and children are more important than some so-called choice, period. There shouldn’t be a ‘choice’ to kill, and they should come into the 21st century and learn to respect the rights of ALL human beings.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.