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The GOP’s steady drumbeat of laws restricting abortion signals the party’s strategy to make an election issue out of a social issue that–unlike same-sex marriage –still finds Americans still deeply divided.
The term has served as a legal code for racism. Today, historian Doris Weatherford writes that state lawmakers have also long imposed legal restrictions on U.S. women. Now it’s the framework for the shrinkage of access to reproductive health care and medical privacy.
Virginia’s Women’s Strike Force stands out for battling back an abortion restriction last year and taking its movement into this year’s elections. But states such as Wisconsin show how the anti-abortion era remains ascendant.
Democrats and reproductive rights activists have allied behind the cry of a GOP “war on women” that includes unfriendly new voter laws. Now female voters will say how much they agree with that.
The so-called war on women waged by Republicans has stirred the creativity of over 180 artists, many based in New York City, who are participating in an exhibit hosted by SOHO20 gallery. The exhibit closes Aug. 11.
Last week Nancy Pelosi told bloggers in a conference call that she sees “war on women” shaping up in Congress. Read what Junda Woo has to say about the bill to ban abortion coverage.
Bangladesh is singled out from neighboring India and Cambodia for taking stronger measures to stop acid attacks on women in a report released Thursday. The attacks to disfigure and isolate victims are called acts of gender terrorism.