Damn. This is a salvo in the War on the Poor.
Federal funds are already severely restricted when it comes to reproductive rights and women's health care, a situation that ends up hurting lower-income women in particular, who tend to use federally-funded services more often than wealthy women. The last thing we ought to be doing is legislating to make these laws more stringent.
It's a backwards step in the fight for women's rights.
The Smith bill is just the first of many attacks on women's rights to come in the new GOP-controlled House. If it moves forward, it would set an incredibly dangerous precedent for GOP action in the House for the next two years.
It's an attempt to declare that sexual assault is legal.
But according to the New York Times, the Smith bill would narrow that use to "cases of 'forcible' rape but not statutory or coerced rape."2 This could mean cases where women are "drugged or given excessive amounts of alcohol, rapes of women with limited mental capacity, and many date rapes" would no longer count as rape.
Damn! Sign this and send it to everyone you know!
Much more work to do!
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