Women’s Rights

The Uterus of the United States of America

October 21, 2011 By mario piperni

From the party of smaller government…

“One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country. It’s not okay. It’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be”

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“[Sex] is supposed to be within marriage. It’s supposed to be for purposes that are yes, conjugal…but also procreative. That’s the perfect way that a sexual union should happen…This is special and it needs to be seen as special.”

Herman Cain:

I support life from conception. No people shouldn’t be free to abort because if we don’t protect the sanctity of life from conception, we will also start to play God relative to life at the end of life.

Michele Bachmann:

I am 100 percent pro-life. I’ve given birth to five babies, an I’ve taken 23 foster children into my home. I believe in the dignity of life from conception until natural death. I believe in the sanctity of human life. Our Declaration of Independence said it’s a creator who endowed us with inalienable rights given to us from God, not from government. And the first of those rights is life. And I stand for that right. I stand for the right to life.

Rick Perry:

“I’m proud to fight for and was proud to sign a budget that defunded Planned Parenthood in Texas. Our obligation is not only to protect life and bestow freedom on future generations, but it’s also to instill character.”

Conservatives and Republicans are the people who will tell you that government has no right to force health insurance upon you but it does have the right to tell you with whom you can have sex with, when you can have sex and the manner in which you do so. Further, many of them will tell you that should a woman become pregnant and regardless of the manner in which it happened (consensual, rape, incest…doesn’t matter), she must give birth to that child. Americans, they insist, must live their lives by the moral and religious standards set forth by the likes of Santorum and Bachmann.

In essence, as the illustration above suggests, Republicans and conservatives are on a campaign to shrink government to the size that fits into the uterus of every woman in America.

Tell me that these people are not mad.
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Defeating ‘Republicans For Rape’

December 21, 2009 By mario piperni

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President Obama signed the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010 into law over the weekend. Why is that a big deal?

Because…

Within the Appropriations Act is Sen. Al Franken’s (D-MN) amendment prohibiting defense contractors from restricting their employees’ abilities to take workplace discrimination, battery, and sexual assault cases to court. The measure was inspired by Jamie Leigh Jones, who was gang-raped by her co-workers while working for Halliburton/KBR in Baghdad. Many Republicans opposed the legislation — saying it was an unnecessary attack on their allies in the defense contracting business — and faced intense political blowback over their positions.

Original story here. For a list of Republicans who voted against Franken’s anti-rape amendment see Republicans For Rape. Their stinking faces should be up on giant billboards across the country.

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Filed Under: Republican Madness, Women's Rights Tagged With: gang rape, photoshop, political issues, politics, rape, Republican Madness, Women's Rights

Republicans For Rape

October 20, 2009 By mario piperni

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.The HuffPo has an update on the Al Franken amendment passed last week which withholds defense contracts from companies like Halliburton “if they restrict their employees from taking workplace sexual assault, battery and discrimination cases to court.” The amendment was triggered by the gang-rape of Halliburton employee Jamie Leigh Jones. If you missed the original story, there is a summary here.

It now appears that the Department of Defense was also opposed to the amendment.

“The DoD opposes the proposed amendment,” reads a message sent from the administration to the Senate on October 6, the day the amendment passed by a 68-30 vote.

“The Department of Defense, the prime contractor, and higher tier subcontractors may not be in a position to know about such things. Enforcement would be problematic, especially in cases where privity of contract does not exist between parties within the supply chain that supports a contract,” reads the DoD note. “It may be more effective to seek a statutory prohibition of all such arrangements in any business transaction entered into within the jurisdiction of the United States, if these arrangements are deemed to pose an unacceptable method of recourse.”

This is ridiculous. While the government has no right to “dictate the terms of employment contracts’, it certainly has the right to refuse to do business with a company which prevents it’s employees from having their day in court.

Two Senators, Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) and Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) who opposed the amendment give their reason for doing so.

“This would be a major, fundamental change in U.S. labor law and I believe it would be very detrimental to employees to eliminate arbitration as an option,” Isakson said.

Chambliss added, also inaccurately: “If that happens, these employees’ only recourse will be to litigate suits in court, which is a very lengthy, expensive and time-consuming process.”

If these two assholes had read the amendment they’d know that it gives employees the option of either going to arbitration or litigating the suit in court. The amendment essentially prevents government contracted firms from preventing their employees from going to court.

Here’s a satirical site someone put up with the faces and names of the 30 Rep Senators who are more concerned about Halliburton lobbyists filling their pockets than they do the plight of rape victims.

Republicans For Rape

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For Too Many Women, The World Is Still A Dangerous Place

August 22, 2009 By mario piperni

Stuff like this makes you aware of how backwards the world really is.

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On the domestic front, while we can hope that the number of women condoning physical abuse are much lower, the actual stats are frightening.

Every 9 seconds, a woman is battered in the U.S.
Family Violence Prevention Fund, 1994.
95% of all victims of domestic violence are women.
Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report, U.S. Dept. of Justice.
Domestic Violence is the single major cause of injury to women, more than muggings and car accidents combined.
First Comprehensive National Health Study of American Women, The Commonwealth Fund, 1993.
Domestic Violence is the cause of 30% of physical disabilities in women.
California Department of Social Services, 1994.
50% of all women murdered in the United States are killed by a spouse or an acquaintance.
Journal of Trauma, 1992
Domestic Violence occurs in 60% of marriages and is the most underreported crime.
National Crime Statistics Report, 1993.