OBAMA CO-CHAIR EVA LONGORIA: THERE IS NO WAY WOMEN CAN VOTE REPUBLICAN...What say you?!

I hear this mantra all the time - WHAT RIGHTS PLEASE?!?!? WHAT FREEDOMS?!?! Republicans don't want to enter your life at all - that is why we want the federal govt out of your private decisions entirely and we want our hard earned income used for something more important than paying for your abortions and contraceptives. We want the govt out of our lives all together...as the Founding Father's intended.

Here are the LIMITED powers of the federal govt as they were originally intended:

U.S. Constitution - Article 1 Section 8

"The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, (be nice if this were actually happening)
and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States; To coin Money, (this stopped happening when the illegal Fed was established in 1917) regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;

To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;

To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;

To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years (another ignored section of the Constitution);

To provide and maintain a Navy;

To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings; And

To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof."

What rock have you been hiding under for the past 2 years? How you can sit there and deny any of this is the reason why you, as a republican woman, are admitting that you enjoy being 2nd class citizens.

The GOTP war against women.
Despite the persistent gender gap in opinion polls and mounting criticism of their hostility to women’s rights, Republicans are not backing off their assault on women’s equality and well-being. New laws in some states could mean a death sentence for a pregnant woman who suffers a life-threatening condition. But the attack goes well beyond abortion, into birth control, access to health care, equal pay and domestic violence.

In an angry speech last month, John Boehner, the House speaker, said claims that his party was damaging the welfare of women were “entirely created” by Democrats. Earlier, the Republican National Committee chairman, Reince Priebus, sneered that any suggestion of a G.O.P. “war on women” was as big a fiction as a “war on caterpillars.”

But just last Wednesday, Mr. Boehner refuted his own argument by ramming through the House a bill that seriously weakens the Violence Against Women Act. That followed the Republican push in Virginia and elsewhere to require medically unnecessary and physically invasive sonograms before an abortion, and Senate Republicans’ persistent blocking of a measure to better address the entrenched problem of sex-based wage discrimination.

On Capitol Hill and in state legislatures, Republicans are attacking women’s rights in four broad areas.

ABORTION On Thursday, a House subcommittee denied the District of Columbia’s Democratic delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton, a chance to testify at a hearing called to promote a proposed federal ban on nearly all abortions in the District 20 weeks after fertilization. The bill flouts the Roe v. Wade standard of fetal viability.

Seven states have enacted similar measures. In Arizona, Gov. Jan Brewer signed a law that bans most abortions two weeks earlier. Each measure will create real hardships for women who will have to decide whether to terminate a pregnancy before learning of major fetal abnormalities or risks to their own health.

These laws go a cruel step further than the familiar Republican attacks on Roe v. Wade. They omit reasonable exceptions for a woman’s health or cases of rape, incest or grievous fetal impairment. These laws would require a woman seeking an abortion to be near death, a standard that could easily delay medical treatment until it is too late.


ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE Governor Brewer also recently signed a bill eliminating public funding for Planned Parenthood. Arizona law already barred spending public money on abortions, which are in any case a small part of the services that Planned Parenthood provides. The new bill denies the organization public money for nonabortion services, like cancer screening and family planning, often the only services of that kind available to poor women.

Gov. Rick Perry of Texas and the state’s Republican-dominated Legislature tried a similar thing in 2011, and were sued in federal court by a group of clinics. The state argues that it is trying to deny money to organizations that “promote” abortions. That is nonsense. Texas already did not give taxpayer money for abortions, and the clinics that sued do not perform abortions.

Last year, the newly installed House Republican majority rushed to pass bills (stopped by the Democratic-led Senate) to eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood and Title X. That federal program provides millions of women with birth control, lifesaving screening for breast and cervical cancer, and other preventive care. It is a highly effective way of preventing the unintended pregnancies and abortions that Republicans claim to be so worried about.

EQUAL PAY Gov. Republicans signed the repeal of a 2009 Lily Ledbetter Law that allowed women and others to bring lawsuits in state courts against pay discrimination, instead of requiring them to be heard as slower and more costly federal cases. It also stiffened penalties for employers found guilty of discrimination.

President Obama has been trying for three years to update and bolster the 1963 Equal Pay Act to enhance remedies for victims of gender-based wage discrimination, shield employees from retaliation for sharing salary information with co-workers, and mandate that employers show that wage differences are job-related, not sex-based, and driven by business necessity.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Last month, the Senate approved a reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, designed to protect victims of domestic and sexual abuse and bring their abusers to justice. The disappointing House bill omits new protections for gay, Indian, student and immigrant abuse victims that are contained in the bipartisan Senate bill. It also rolls back protections for immigrant women whose status is dependent on a spouse, making it more likely that they will stay with their abusers, at real personal risk, and ends existing protections for undocumented immigrants who report abuse and cooperate with law enforcement to pursue the abuser.

OK, here goes:

Abortion - the Roe-vs-Wade decision made very clear that if further research can validate the personhood of the fetus then the ruling could and should be overturned. Medical science has proved beyond a doubt that personhood is established as the fetus feels pain at or around 20 weeks and the heart beats and blood circulates at 10 weeks and brain function in the 5th week after conception. This whole question will be before SCOTUS again soon and you and women like you who consider destroying a fetus as part of "women's rights" will have to answer the question - do you have the right to kill another person for your own sensitivities? The question as to the health of the woman - that will more than likely remain the one reason to justify abortion.

Access to healthcare - there are many options for women other than PP for health care, many of which do not receive public funding while performing over 300,000 abortions. Their statistics for abortions only increase while their adoption referrals are in the basement. PP does 333 abortions for every single adoption referral and, by their own numbers, have prevented fewer pregnancies/abortions than they performed (291,000 prevented, 332,278 abortions performed). They claim abortion is only 3 percent of services rendered, but handing out pamphlets and condoms hardly entails the same amount of resources and time as does an abortion. If time and resources were taken into account the percentage of energy PP spends on abortions would far outdistance any other services they render. And again, DEFUNDING PP WOULD NOT LIMIT ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE - there are other and better alternatives.

Equal Pay - The Paycheck Fairness Act was defeated by a bi-partisan majority for a myriad of reasons, but the most prominent reason was the way the bill was written would create excessive litigation that would impose a real burden, particularly on small businesses during a time of real economic hardship. There may be a time, when our economy is back on the right track (after BO is ousted) that we can look at this issue again - but right now is not the time to burden businesses even more with policies that could and probably will lead to lawsuits.

Domestic Violence - I'm still researching this issue but will get back to you.