Will Anti-Abortion Unite the Republican Party?

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.

Bob McDonnell Goes Down

The former Virginia governor has been federally charged with taking thousands of dollars worth of gifts from a supporter while he was in office. When the investigation started and the media found out about the scandal Bob McDonnell thought he could get escape prosecution by giving all the money and gifts back, but that is proving untrue as he comes up on charges today.

These weren't just small gifts either, some of them including $15,000 to help pay for his daughters wedding, a $6,000 Rolex watch and $10,000 in Oscar de la Renta clothing.

 According to the 14-count indictment, the couple received the gifts and loans in exchange for McDonnell helping  on an “as-needed basis to legitimize, promote and obtain research studies for Star’s products.” That included arranging meetings with state government officials and hosting events at the Governor’s Mansion,  with the goal of persuading  university researchers to initiate studies of Star’s products.

In response to the scandal the now Democrat Governor Terry McAuliffe has promised to sign an executive order to limit gifts to himself and members of his staff. In a statement he said,  “obviously troubled by the charges that federal prosecutors have made against Governor McDonnell and his wife Maureen and the message that this period in our history sends about how government in this Commonwealth is run.”  McAuliffe added that it’s his hope that justice will be served and that  he can help  prevent “episodes like this from occurring ever again.”

This comes as a big blow to the Republican party who was depending on McDonnell and Chris Christie to run for president in 2016. They have both landed themselves deep in scandal. 

It seems that the Republican party is being over taken by scandals created by there representatives. Will they be able to survive until 2016? Who will be under investigation next?