Wednesday, August 3, 2022
The climate is the No. 1 reason why food prices go up,"
Extreme weather events, from droughts to floods, have inflated global food prices beyond the effects of the Russia-Ukraine war — and climate change will only continue to stress crop yields.
"The climate is the No. 1 reason why food prices go up," Sal Gilbertie, president and CEO of Teucrium Funds (CORN), told Yahoo Finance Live (video above). "It happens all the time. If you look at the last six or seven times that global grains have risen, all but one — and that would be the Ukraine war — are caused by weather, and it's usually a drought. It's usually not enough rain. That's associated with heat. And we've seen that around the world."
World food prices in June were 23% higher than the previous year, according to a UN agency report, though they did see a decline that month as farmers in the northern hemisphere brought in new harvests.
The recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, higher fertilizer costs, and higher energy prices stemming from Russia's invasion of Ukraine have all been contributing factors in 2022. At the same time, worsening climate events could be the final straw that leads to higher prices for some and famine for others.
Salvador Parra is seen with a garlic crop he is preparing to harvest and sell amid the dry climate in Cantua Creek, CA, June 15, 2021. REUTERS/Norma Galeana
Salvador Parra is seen with a garlic crop he is preparing to harvest and sell amid the dry climate in Cantua Creek, CA, June 15, 2021. REUTERS/Norma Galeana
"We face an unprecedented global hunger crisis," UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned in late June. "This year’s food access issues could become next year’s global food shortage. No country will be immune to the social and economic repercussions of such a catastrophe."
Intense heat waves and droughts linked to climate change have spanned continents in recent months, challenging the global supply of raw ingredients.
"We saw a tremendous heat wave in India, which is often the world's top producer of wheat," Gilbertie said. "No one knows that because they use it all themselves."
In Europe, the record-breaking heat waves missed the winter wheat crop but will affect summer crops, he added. At the same time, he said, "the Western corn belt and the extreme American West are facing droughts that are just unbelievable and intensifying."
Crop production in South America has also been disrupted by the ongoing La Niña weather pattern, a complex phenomenon in Pacific Ocean sea temperatures that tends to lead to more rainfall in Eastern Asia, floods in Australia, and drier conditions in parts of South America.
A bicyclist bikes past grassy fields that have dried to a golden brown due to drought at Rock Meadow Conservation Area in Belmont, MA. (Photo by Erin Clark/The Boston Globe via Getty)
A bicyclist bikes past grassy fields that have dried to a golden brown due to drought at Rock Meadow Conservation Area in Belmont, MA. (Photo by Erin Clark/The Boston Globe via Getty)
"We saw soybean production fall dramatically in Brazil," Gilbertie said. "We're seeing estimates out of Argentina [Tuesday] morning that their corn and wheat crops are a little bit smaller than anticipated. That's keeping support on prices."
And in Asia, rice production and fisheries may be threatened by extreme heat, the South China Morning Post reported.
According to Gilbertie, weather variability is increasing and storms are becoming more intense.
"Our weather people, the long-term people who've been quite uncannily accurate, they actually are forecasting that next year or two should be the better years of the next 10," Gilbertie said. "And so... the next decade will probably be dependent on weather. Crop production is always dependent on weather, and you've got to keep an eye on that."
Grace is an assistant editor for Yahoo Finance.
Florida clergy lawsuit says abortion ban violates religious freedom
By Jacqueline Thomsen
https://www.aol.com/florida-clergy-lawsuits-abortion-ban-181659890-145747955.html
(Reuters) -Clergy members of five religions sued the state of Florida on Monday over a new law criminalizing most abortions in the state after 15 weeks of pregnancy, saying the ban violates their religious freedom rights. The five separate lawsuits https://tmsnrt.rs/3BBEdIr, filed in Miami-Dade County, claim the state's ban curtails the clergy members' ability to counsel congregants about abortion in accordance with their faiths, since Florida law prohibits counseling or encouraging a crime. The plaintiffs are three rabbis, a United Church of Christ reverend, a Unitarian Universalist minister, an Episcopal Church priest and a Buddhist lama. They asked the court to declare that the state's abortion law violates Florida and U.S. constitutional protections for freedom of speech and religion. They also claim the abortion ban violates a Florida religious freedom law that prohibits the government from “substantially burdening” the exercise of religion, unless there is a compelling state interest that cannot be met with fewer restrictions. Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody said in a statement that her office will continue to defend the statute. Marci Hamilton, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania representing the plaintiffs, said the cases are "absolutely essential" to address the tension between abortion restrictions and religious freedom. A Florida synagogue has also filed a lawsuit challenging the abortion law. That case is pending in a different state court. The Florida law, which bans abortions after 15 weeks with few exceptions, went into effect on July 1. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the law in April, before the U.S. Supreme Court's June ruling overturning the constitutional right to abortion nationwide. An appeal is now pending over a judge's ruling last month that the state ban violates the Florida constitution’s privacy rights guarantees. The state’s high court previously said those guarantees protect the right to abortion. (Reporting by Jacqueline Thomsen in WashingtonEditing by David Bario and David Gregorio)
https://www.aol.com/florida-clergy-lawsuits-abortion-ban-181659890-145747955.html
(Reuters) -Clergy members of five religions sued the state of Florida on Monday over a new law criminalizing most abortions in the state after 15 weeks of pregnancy, saying the ban violates their religious freedom rights. The five separate lawsuits https://tmsnrt.rs/3BBEdIr, filed in Miami-Dade County, claim the state's ban curtails the clergy members' ability to counsel congregants about abortion in accordance with their faiths, since Florida law prohibits counseling or encouraging a crime. The plaintiffs are three rabbis, a United Church of Christ reverend, a Unitarian Universalist minister, an Episcopal Church priest and a Buddhist lama. They asked the court to declare that the state's abortion law violates Florida and U.S. constitutional protections for freedom of speech and religion. They also claim the abortion ban violates a Florida religious freedom law that prohibits the government from “substantially burdening” the exercise of religion, unless there is a compelling state interest that cannot be met with fewer restrictions. Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody said in a statement that her office will continue to defend the statute. Marci Hamilton, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania representing the plaintiffs, said the cases are "absolutely essential" to address the tension between abortion restrictions and religious freedom. A Florida synagogue has also filed a lawsuit challenging the abortion law. That case is pending in a different state court. The Florida law, which bans abortions after 15 weeks with few exceptions, went into effect on July 1. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the law in April, before the U.S. Supreme Court's June ruling overturning the constitutional right to abortion nationwide. An appeal is now pending over a judge's ruling last month that the state ban violates the Florida constitution’s privacy rights guarantees. The state’s high court previously said those guarantees protect the right to abortion. (Reporting by Jacqueline Thomsen in WashingtonEditing by David Bario and David Gregorio)
Republican war on women led by questionable men
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May 11, 2022
Questionable men lead the Republican war on women
A raped woman can be forced to have the baby. Abortions and contraceptives are banned. She's charged with murder for a miscarriage. How did we get here?
Who are the men leading the Republican war on women? What's their history with women?
This Power Map traces the history of two Supreme Court justices who will be voting on overturning Roe v Wade; candidates endorsed by Trump who if elected Senator would be responsible for confirming future Supreme Court justices; cable TV hosts and Republican strategists leading the war on women.
Take this quiz. (Answers below)
Who served his wife divorce papers while she was recovering from cancer?
Accused of holding a razor to his wife's throat?
Refused work after she turned down male hosts' alleged demands for sex?
Accused of laughing while assaulting a young woman?
Went into women’s dressing rooms, kissed them without consent and groped them?
Are these really the men who should be deciding what a woman can do with her own body?
Republican war on women led by men
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Accused of domestic violence
"The dozens of accusations of sexual assault and harassment levied against Donald Trump over the years are inseparable from his political identity. But Trump has also endorsed several candidates for office who have been accused by those who know them of domestic violence, threatening behavior or sexual harassment.
Trump’s world is chock full of these types of figures: In 2018, then-White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter was accused of domestic abuse by two ex-wives. Porter denied the allegations, and the President wished him well on his way out the door. (Porter wasn’t the only White House staffer to resign over abuse allegations.)
Steve Bannon, once Trump’s campaign chief and then a White House counselor, was once accused of pulling his then-wife’s neck and wrist during an argument, and then of grabbing the phone from her and throwing it across the room as she called 911. Bannon pleaded not guilty and the case against him was ultimately dismissed." - Talking Points Memo
Mapping the Republican war on women
How to use the Republican War On Women power map
How to use the Republican War on Women power map
Republican men push abortion laws
"84% of the state lawmakers who have sponsored trigger laws are men, five states had no women sponsors for trigger laws, all but one of the 13 governors who have signed trigger laws are men, and 91% of the senators who confirmed the antiabortion majority on the Supreme Court are men. These men are overwhelmingly Republican: 86% of the trigger law sponsors were Republican, all of the antiabortion justices were nominated by Republicans, and 94% of the senators who voted to confirm the antiabortion justices were Republicans." - Letters From An American
Republican power grab
Trump and Republican trash womens rights deny abortion or birth control
Hypocrisy on 'family values'
"There are high public officials in both the Democratic and Republican Partieswho are being exposed for moral transgressions... But you don't see Liberals and Democrats running around calling for amendments to the national Constitution to ban gay marriage and cement certain "family values" that they select to govern the conduct of the rest of us. It's conservatives and Republicans who are out calling for that, and perhaps its' time for them to work on their own personal family values, as we all need to do, before they run around telling the rest of us how we should conduct ours." - HuffPost
Takeaway: Stand up for women's rights while you still can. Make sure to vote!
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Overturning Roe v. Wade, part of the ‘war on women,’ will leave blood on the hands of the GOP
https://www.azmirror.com/2022/05/05/overturning-roe-v-wade-part-of-the-war-on-women-will-leave-blood-on-the-hands-of-the-gop/
There’s a reason the Declaration of Independence reads “all men are created equal” and not “all men and women are created equal.” Simply stated, the Founding Founders were all white guys who didn’t think women were their equals. In fact, the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution after that, basically regarded women as their property, at least as far as the law was concerned. GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX SUBSCRIBE It wasn’t until the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920 that women would even win the right to vote. And it wasn’t until the 1965 Supreme Court decision in Griswold v. Connecticut that state laws outlawing the use of contraceptives, like the birth control pill, were tossed out. That dramatically reduced the health risks of unintended pregnancies and established “family planning as a cultural norm” and what Planned Parenthood calls “unheard-of control over reproduction” for women in the U.S. and ultimately around the world. And it wasn’t until 1973 Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade that women won the constitutional right to abortion in the United States. But Roe v. Wade was about a lot more than abortion. It was about women coming closer than ever to being able to exercise their full rights as citizens. With Roe v. Wade women could finally declare: “This is my body. I’m in charge of it, and my future.” It took the Supreme Court almost 200 years to arrive at the conclusion that women had the right to decide what to do with their own bodies — though, ironically, it wasn’t until 1981 that President Ronald Reagan would appoint Sandra Day O’Connor of Arizona as the first woman Supreme Court justice. (O’Connor would later join a majority of justices in upholding Roe v. Wade.) Now comes word that a majority of justices on today’s Supreme Court have voted to overturn Roe v. Wade as early as this summer, according to a report by Politico about a leaked draft of the court’s pending announcement in a Mississippi abortion case. Chief Justice John Roberts has confirmed the draft is authentic. The Supreme Court’s looming decision on Roe v. Wade is its own brand of war crime because women will die unnecessarily as a result of it. Assuming the court sticks with its decision, and there’s no reason to think it won’t, as many as 26 Republican-controlled states across the nation could soon outlaw abortion again, leaving Democratically controlled states to serve as safe havens for women seeking the procedure. Said another way, if Roe v. Wade is tossed out, an estimated 40% of women in the United States would be deprived of their full rights as citizens. No other group of Americans has ever been summarily deprived of a constitutionally sanctioned right in the United States, but that is exactly what is about to happen to women. The repeal of Roe v. Wade means that women, at least in Republican-run states across the nation, would be deemed inferior to men, less than men, less worthy of American citizenship, and all thanks to the conservative majority on today’s right-leaning Supreme Court made possible by the election of Donald J. Trump in 2020. It was Trump who appointed three of justices expected to overturn Roe v. Wade. This unbridled assault on the rights of women is all part of what author Tanya Melich labeled “The Republican War on Women,” also the title of her 1996 book. According to the publisher’s website, the book is an insider’s take on how “Republicans [led by Ronald Reagan] used appeals to sexist and racist bigotry to win the presidency [in 1980]. The party adopted an electoral strategy that included getting votes by playing on the fear and uncertainty engendered by the civil rights and women’s political movements, and continued to use this strategy in the campaigns of 1984, 1988, and 1992.” That strategy, of course, is still being implemented today. Not only will women fight, but they’ll win. If the Republican war on women is real, then the Supreme Court’s looming decision on Roe v. Wade is its own brand of war crime because women will die unnecessailry as a result of it. Just as they did before Roe v. Wade, women, especially low-income women and women of color, will be forced to seek abortions through far more dangerous means than are available to them now. The grotesque reality of “back-alley abortions” will return and women seeking an abortion in states that decide to ban the practice again will be regarded as criminals. But wars are made up of battles in which the fate of opposing “armies,” in this case our country’s two major political parties, can easily shift, especially if one side commits a fatal tactical error. The ruling on Roe v. Wade that’s about to be issued by today’s Republican-majority on the Supreme Court is just that sort of error. The problem with declaring war on American women is that they still have three powerful weapons they can use to defend themselves: The right to vote, the fact that they constitute a majority of our nation’s voters, and the support of a strong majority of the American people. Make no mistake, women will fight this decision. Already, thousands across the country have marched this week to protest the Supreme Court’s looming announcement and tens of millions will be marching to the polls to make their voices heard in the fall midterm elections and the next presidential election cycle. Not only will women fight, but they’ll win. The great tragedy is that, even as millions of women are marching and voting, an untold number of women will be dying from botched abortions and medical complications due to unwanted pregnancies — and the blood of those victims will be on the hands of today’s Republican Party. SUPPORT NEWS YOU TRUST. DONATE Creative Commons License REPUBLISH Our stories may be republished online or in print under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. We ask that you edit only for style or to shorten, provide proper attribution and link to our web site. Please see our republishing guidelines for use of photos and graphics. James E. Garcia JAMES E. GARCIA James E. Garcia is a Phoenix-based journalist, playwright and communications consultant. As a journalist, he has worked as a reporter, columnist, editor and foreign correspondent. He was the first Latino Affairs correspondent for KJZZ, and the first Latino editor of a major progressive news weekly in the U.S., The San Antonio Current. James has taught creative and non-fiction writing, ethnic studies, theater, literature and Latino politics at ASU. The founder and producing artistic director of New Carpa Theater Co., James is the author of more than 30 plays, including the upcoming “The Two Souls of Cesar Chavez.” MORE FROM AUTHOR
There’s a reason the Declaration of Independence reads “all men are created equal” and not “all men and women are created equal.” Simply stated, the Founding Founders were all white guys who didn’t think women were their equals. In fact, the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution after that, basically regarded women as their property, at least as far as the law was concerned. GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX SUBSCRIBE It wasn’t until the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920 that women would even win the right to vote. And it wasn’t until the 1965 Supreme Court decision in Griswold v. Connecticut that state laws outlawing the use of contraceptives, like the birth control pill, were tossed out. That dramatically reduced the health risks of unintended pregnancies and established “family planning as a cultural norm” and what Planned Parenthood calls “unheard-of control over reproduction” for women in the U.S. and ultimately around the world. And it wasn’t until 1973 Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade that women won the constitutional right to abortion in the United States. But Roe v. Wade was about a lot more than abortion. It was about women coming closer than ever to being able to exercise their full rights as citizens. With Roe v. Wade women could finally declare: “This is my body. I’m in charge of it, and my future.” It took the Supreme Court almost 200 years to arrive at the conclusion that women had the right to decide what to do with their own bodies — though, ironically, it wasn’t until 1981 that President Ronald Reagan would appoint Sandra Day O’Connor of Arizona as the first woman Supreme Court justice. (O’Connor would later join a majority of justices in upholding Roe v. Wade.) Now comes word that a majority of justices on today’s Supreme Court have voted to overturn Roe v. Wade as early as this summer, according to a report by Politico about a leaked draft of the court’s pending announcement in a Mississippi abortion case. Chief Justice John Roberts has confirmed the draft is authentic. The Supreme Court’s looming decision on Roe v. Wade is its own brand of war crime because women will die unnecessarily as a result of it. Assuming the court sticks with its decision, and there’s no reason to think it won’t, as many as 26 Republican-controlled states across the nation could soon outlaw abortion again, leaving Democratically controlled states to serve as safe havens for women seeking the procedure. Said another way, if Roe v. Wade is tossed out, an estimated 40% of women in the United States would be deprived of their full rights as citizens. No other group of Americans has ever been summarily deprived of a constitutionally sanctioned right in the United States, but that is exactly what is about to happen to women. The repeal of Roe v. Wade means that women, at least in Republican-run states across the nation, would be deemed inferior to men, less than men, less worthy of American citizenship, and all thanks to the conservative majority on today’s right-leaning Supreme Court made possible by the election of Donald J. Trump in 2020. It was Trump who appointed three of justices expected to overturn Roe v. Wade. This unbridled assault on the rights of women is all part of what author Tanya Melich labeled “The Republican War on Women,” also the title of her 1996 book. According to the publisher’s website, the book is an insider’s take on how “Republicans [led by Ronald Reagan] used appeals to sexist and racist bigotry to win the presidency [in 1980]. The party adopted an electoral strategy that included getting votes by playing on the fear and uncertainty engendered by the civil rights and women’s political movements, and continued to use this strategy in the campaigns of 1984, 1988, and 1992.” That strategy, of course, is still being implemented today. Not only will women fight, but they’ll win. If the Republican war on women is real, then the Supreme Court’s looming decision on Roe v. Wade is its own brand of war crime because women will die unnecessailry as a result of it. Just as they did before Roe v. Wade, women, especially low-income women and women of color, will be forced to seek abortions through far more dangerous means than are available to them now. The grotesque reality of “back-alley abortions” will return and women seeking an abortion in states that decide to ban the practice again will be regarded as criminals. But wars are made up of battles in which the fate of opposing “armies,” in this case our country’s two major political parties, can easily shift, especially if one side commits a fatal tactical error. The ruling on Roe v. Wade that’s about to be issued by today’s Republican-majority on the Supreme Court is just that sort of error. The problem with declaring war on American women is that they still have three powerful weapons they can use to defend themselves: The right to vote, the fact that they constitute a majority of our nation’s voters, and the support of a strong majority of the American people. Make no mistake, women will fight this decision. Already, thousands across the country have marched this week to protest the Supreme Court’s looming announcement and tens of millions will be marching to the polls to make their voices heard in the fall midterm elections and the next presidential election cycle. Not only will women fight, but they’ll win. The great tragedy is that, even as millions of women are marching and voting, an untold number of women will be dying from botched abortions and medical complications due to unwanted pregnancies — and the blood of those victims will be on the hands of today’s Republican Party. SUPPORT NEWS YOU TRUST. DONATE Creative Commons License REPUBLISH Our stories may be republished online or in print under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. We ask that you edit only for style or to shorten, provide proper attribution and link to our web site. Please see our republishing guidelines for use of photos and graphics. James E. Garcia JAMES E. GARCIA James E. Garcia is a Phoenix-based journalist, playwright and communications consultant. As a journalist, he has worked as a reporter, columnist, editor and foreign correspondent. He was the first Latino Affairs correspondent for KJZZ, and the first Latino editor of a major progressive news weekly in the U.S., The San Antonio Current. James has taught creative and non-fiction writing, ethnic studies, theater, literature and Latino politics at ASU. The founder and producing artistic director of New Carpa Theater Co., James is the author of more than 30 plays, including the upcoming “The Two Souls of Cesar Chavez.” MORE FROM AUTHOR
The Republican War on Women just became a literal war as women will be killed by the abortion bans.
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The Republican 'War on Women' Is Real By Krystal Ball April 10, 2012 Save More U.S. News & World Report More There is a caterpillar native to the Americas from the Silkworm moth genus Lonomia. The caterpillar doesn't look dangerous, but if you attempt to harm it, it secretes a venomous anticoagulant that causes renal failure, hemorrhaging, and death. Perhaps this is what Reince Priebus meant by the GOP "War on Women" being like a "War on Caterpillars." Although any given incremental erosion of women's reproductive rights from a GOP sponsored bill at the state level seems harmless enough to the future of the GOP, taken in the aggregate they are likely to cause the party severe electoral distress. [Read Romney, Obama Agree on One Thing: Let Women Join Augusta.] Caterpillars aside, the GOP "War on Women" is real and it has real-world consequences for the millions of women whose lives can and will be impacted by legislation that erodes more than a century's worth of progress on women's reproductive rights. There were over 1100 antichoice provisions introduced in 2011 and 900 antichoice provisions introduced so far in 2012. Legislators in 13 states have introduced 22 bills seeking to mandate that a woman obtain an ultrasound procedure before having an abortion. Of these, seven states are pursuing the state-rape vaginal probe variety. In addition, legislators in 13 states have sponsored right-wing "Personhood" type bills, too extreme even for the electorate of Mississippi, that could make both abortion and reproductive choices highly restricted. Lest we think that the rhetoric around these bills might contain the damage to the GOP's standing amongst women, please note how Georgia state legislator Rep. Terry England compares women to cows and pigs on his farm in support of bill forcing women to carry even inviable fetuses to term and Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett justifies forced ultrasound bill by telling women to "just close your eyes." [Read Republicans Brought the Gender Gap Upon Themselves.] Like the Lonomia caterpillar, poor women seeking healthcare and women seeking abortions and birth control may seem powerless, but they are not. I can assure you that women all over the country are paying close attention to the GOP "War on Women." Women know that the GOP victory in 2010, especially on the state level, was supposed to be about jobs, the economy, and containing government overreach. Instead, that GOP victory has translated into the worst assault on women's rights in a generation. Expect these women, who have already caused hemorrhaging in Mitt Romney's support amongst swing-state voters, to induce electoral catastrophe for the GOP in November.
The Republican 'War on Women' Is Real By Krystal Ball April 10, 2012 Save More U.S. News & World Report More There is a caterpillar native to the Americas from the Silkworm moth genus Lonomia. The caterpillar doesn't look dangerous, but if you attempt to harm it, it secretes a venomous anticoagulant that causes renal failure, hemorrhaging, and death. Perhaps this is what Reince Priebus meant by the GOP "War on Women" being like a "War on Caterpillars." Although any given incremental erosion of women's reproductive rights from a GOP sponsored bill at the state level seems harmless enough to the future of the GOP, taken in the aggregate they are likely to cause the party severe electoral distress. [Read Romney, Obama Agree on One Thing: Let Women Join Augusta.] Caterpillars aside, the GOP "War on Women" is real and it has real-world consequences for the millions of women whose lives can and will be impacted by legislation that erodes more than a century's worth of progress on women's reproductive rights. There were over 1100 antichoice provisions introduced in 2011 and 900 antichoice provisions introduced so far in 2012. Legislators in 13 states have introduced 22 bills seeking to mandate that a woman obtain an ultrasound procedure before having an abortion. Of these, seven states are pursuing the state-rape vaginal probe variety. In addition, legislators in 13 states have sponsored right-wing "Personhood" type bills, too extreme even for the electorate of Mississippi, that could make both abortion and reproductive choices highly restricted. Lest we think that the rhetoric around these bills might contain the damage to the GOP's standing amongst women, please note how Georgia state legislator Rep. Terry England compares women to cows and pigs on his farm in support of bill forcing women to carry even inviable fetuses to term and Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett justifies forced ultrasound bill by telling women to "just close your eyes." [Read Republicans Brought the Gender Gap Upon Themselves.] Like the Lonomia caterpillar, poor women seeking healthcare and women seeking abortions and birth control may seem powerless, but they are not. I can assure you that women all over the country are paying close attention to the GOP "War on Women." Women know that the GOP victory in 2010, especially on the state level, was supposed to be about jobs, the economy, and containing government overreach. Instead, that GOP victory has translated into the worst assault on women's rights in a generation. Expect these women, who have already caused hemorrhaging in Mitt Romney's support amongst swing-state voters, to induce electoral catastrophe for the GOP in November.
War on women is a slogan in United States politics used to describe certain Republican Party policies and legislation as a wide-scale effort to restrict women's rights, especially reproductive rights.
War on women is a slogan in United States politics used to describe certain Republican Party policies and legislation as a wide-scale effort to restrict women's rights, especially reproductive rights.[1][2][3][4] Prominent Democrats such as Nancy Pelosi[5] and Barbara Boxer,[6] as well as feminists, have used the phrase to criticize proponents of these laws as trying to force their social views on women through legislation.[7][8][9][10] The slogan has been used to describe Republican policies in areas such as access to reproductive health services, particularly birth control and abortion services; the definition of rape for the purpose of the public funding of abortion;[11][12] the prosecution of criminal violence against women; and workplace discrimination against women.[13][14][15][16]
While used in other contexts, and prior to 2010,[17][18] it became a common slogan in American political discourse after the 2010 congressional elections.[19][20] The term is often used to describe opposition to the contraceptive mandate in Obamacare and policies to defund women's health organizations that perform abortions, such as Planned Parenthood. The concept again gained attention in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, when Republican nominee Donald Trump drew notice for a history of inflammatory statements and actions toward women.[21][22][23][24][25]
][37]especially reproductive rights.[1][2][3][4] Prominent Democrats such as Nancy Pelosi[5] and Barbara Boxer,[6] as well as feminists, have used the phrase to criticize proponents of these laws as trying to force their social views on women through legislation.[7][8][9][10] The slogan has been used to describe Republican policies in areas such as access to reproductive health services, particularly birth control and abortion services; the definition of rape for the purpose of the public funding of abortion;[11][12] the prosecution of criminal violence against women; and workplace discrimination against women.[13][14][15][16]
While used in other contexts, and prior to 2010,[17][18] it became a common slogan in American political discourse after the 2010 congressional elections.[19][20] The term is often used to describe opposition to the contraceptive mandate in Obamacare and policies to defund women's health organizations that perform abortions, such as Planned Parenthood. The concept again gained attention in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, when Republican nominee Donald Trump drew notice for a history of inflammatory statements and actions toward women.[21][22][23][24][25]
][37]especially reproductive rights.[1][2][3][4] Prominent Democrats such as Nancy Pelosi[5] and Barbara Boxer,[6] as well as feminists, have used the phrase to criticize proponents of these laws as trying to force their social views on women through legislation.[7][8][9][10] The slogan has been used to describe Republican policies in areas such as access to reproductive health services, particularly birth control and abortion services; the definition of rape for the purpose of the public funding of abortion;[11][12] the prosecution of criminal violence against women; and workplace discrimination against women.[13][14][15][16]