the war against women definitely cost Republic aids the election
the last time around however they did win the war on women in some regard and
Laura Bassett from Huffington Post
put together a really really great piece where she profiles
all the different ways that Republicans won this war against women
now back in 2010 is when they really wants this aggressive assault
and ever since then about 54 abortion clinic shut down
because restrictive anti-abortion legislation
so just to give you guys some more information at least 50 for abortion
providers across 27 states have shut down
or ended their abortion services now the vast majority of the states in the
country
actually do not keep track of the number of abortion clinics they have
because they count them as hospitals or or the same as hospitals they don't have
a special category for abortion clinics
but Laura Bassett and other people who research for this story: look
specifically at abortion centers in abortion clinics
and they found that about 54 them shut down as a result of this restrictive
legislation
and it was just the ones I shut down my first well I guess states like Texas
they were devastated
yes night clinic shut down yeah Texas and then you have
states like Arizona where I enough clinic shut down that
in order for some people stayed around Lake Havasu for example
never drive a 150 miles out there were either Phoenix or Las Vegas
is some parts the state so that's a another huge impediment
and these are all ways to limit your
legal right to an abortion which you have the supreme court decision
but they only care about that they wanna take away those reproductive rights
yeah and then furthermore there's another good point made which is that if
you
if you're rich or you got you can take time off from work
you know how the different factors you got a good car it's easier
well if you don't have a car New York 150 miles you can take a time off from
work
you know you're working for a living you're working two jobs yes well that a
you've got a stratification again where the rich have access to those rights
and the middle classes I miss this is for the poor bill anything about the
ramifications of that because
if wealthier people have access to abortions if they can deal with the 24
hour in some cases 72-hour waiting period
between the consultation the actual abortion if they can drive a 150 miles
outta town to abortion clinic
then you know they don't have to worry about the financial responsibility of
having a child
but if it impacts poor people disproportionately
I mean it's gonna be a complete and utter disaster for that child that is
born into a poor family it's going to be really really difficult for their family
to take care that kid
and on top of it the so-called pro-life
advocates and legislators are the very first people in line to want to cut
social services that help
these poor families raise these kids in fact I wanna really quickly
jump ahead to something that I found really really interesting
you know when you look at the cost of childcare in the country
just child care I'm not even talking about college education I'm not talking
about food and clothing to take care Decatur housing
i'm talking about. what you need to make sure that you have someone to watch over
your kid why you go to work
I mean the cost is astronomical in fact in 35 States NDC
the cost up center based day care let alone a nanny is higher than the cost
a year at a public college okay
so why are Republicans up in arms about that the cost curve
you know childcare if they're really so pro-life why don't they want to do
something to make sure that people
are able to go to work an A for child care why don't they want to make sure
that you know we keep the food stamp program
that we keep programs that help you like week for instance programs that help
poor families feed their children it I have a couple points very well you said
on this story
so on that a story about chartered bus in 28 states if you got two kids the
concept childcare
is more than a few work a minimum wage job for 40 hours a week
so if you're makin min away Saturday you literally
can't even afford your childcare so it's a
you lose money by going to work think about how insane that its
and then we just their bootstraps a people now when he comes abortionist are
you know what they call these laws
but they're passing their call crap laws
targeted regulation abortion providers
so the guys who say oh we're having a warm one another we're talking about
they came to Los track bike I how we got you
we take away your rights yeah what do you want and then the
double irony is the guys who hate regulation
their main weapon is regulation so they change for example is also now you gotta
have the same
exact specs as a hospital which is nearly impossible for the smaller quakes
sorry yet we regulated you have existed how's that for irony for public that's
exactly what they do and I always go back to this
it's never about being pro-life or maybe in few instances urged a deeply
religious you do believe that it's life at the moment of conception
but I think that for most conservative legislators
it's about control and it's about punishment
no you are having sex when you were trying to reproduce therefore you should
be punished if you get pregnant
and also a lot of let's keep it real a lot a vmail conservative Republicans are
not in favor of women
leaving the house working having a financial independence financial
responsibilities have their own
and so this is a way to control you obviously you don't have
and the ability to be as successful as you can be in your career
if you can't you don't have a real family planning as an option
and the last thing I would add to that is look if this is so then
its just the context of these laws USA look you may beat as being unfair
because it they just pro-life and they're just do it everything they can
to say what the
a beautiful eyes but within the context of other things that the republicans are
doing the same time
trying to make sure that they are there against laws that would say that women
if they paid the same
amount as a man or if they don't make a proven in a court of law
the nation with a settlement for that is an earl we don't want you to win that
settlement
we don't want you to bring those cases we don't want you to get the same man to
pay
for the same job as a man well you know and then you at about twelve other
things that they've done that we've covered on the show
that are targeted specifically at women and you get a clearer picture that Hamas
right
this is not just like poet deeply held religious belief on one particular issue
all these were aimed at making sure that they can reassert their power over one