Today on the 41st anniversary of Roe V. Wade anti-choice supporters took to the streets rallying for less choices for women to take control of there healthcare. The GOP has even gone as far as postponing their winter meeting to make sure every GOPer can make the march.
In light of the disunity within the Republican party, and their unpopularity with women, the GOP continue to push for making abortion a criminal act. This comes after the party stated that they will take sensitivity seminars to help them refer to women in a higher regard.
How do they respond?
By trying to lessen the protection zone for clinics like planned parenthood, and other clinics that cater to women's health. And criminalizing abortion after twenty weeks.
It seems as though the GOP is trying to sabotage themselves against women. They are constantly reminded how important it is to have the woman vote, but they continually prey on women's rights.
Why are they doing this?
With the party deep in scandal, it seems that the only thing that the GOP has in common right now is abortion. It seems that uniting on abortion is the only way the GOP will unite at all, and they think, the only way they will win elections.
You would think they would learn from the former mistakes of Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock who lost their seats because of their anti women agenda in 2012. Though republicans lost several seats, in 2010 they had success in getting elected in their states due to gerrymandering and changing other voting laws. Because of this they have been passing restrictive laws at the speed of a bullet train targeting a woman's uterus.
"It’s incredible to see what’s happening primarily in the states," Dr.
James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, told msnbc. “It hasn’t
shown up here in Washington, but I believe in time it will."
Clearly they are proud of what their doing.
Rick Santorum, feels that in the past the GOP has been to quiet in standing up for what it believes in and thinks its better for the party if they stand loud and proud about their beliefs.
"Unless we go out there and are not afraid to stand by the platform we
have and talk about the issues and how extreme the other side is and
have them play defense instead of us defending our record, then we’re in
for a very tough time," he said. "It’s one of the reasons we’re not in the majority."
Regardless of how each separate GOP goes about winning their races, their is one thing that they do agree with, they must stick together. Believing that separating would be detrimental to the party. Even if sticking together will make them lose the women's vote.
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