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Default Shocking, just shocking

Top 10 Shocking Attacks from the GOP War on Women

1) Republicans not only want to reduce women's access to abortion
care, they're actually trying to redefine rape. After a major
backlash, they promised to stop. But they haven't.

2) A state legislator in Georgia wants to change the legal term for
victims of rape, stalking, and domestic violence to "accuser." But
victims of other less gendered crimes, like burglary, would remain
"victims."

3) In South Dakota, Republicans proposed a bill that could make it
legal to murder a doctor who provides abortion care. (Yep, for real.)
4) Republicans want to cut nearly a billion dollars of food and other
aid to low-income pregnant women, mothers, babies, and kids.

5) In Congress, Republicans have proposed a bill that would let
hospitals allow a woman to die rather than perform an abortion
necessary to save her life.

6) Maryland Republicans ended all county money for a low-income kids'
preschool program. Why? No need, they said. Women should really be
home with the kids, not out working.

7) And at the federal level, Republicans want to cut that same
program, Head Start, by $1 billion. That means over 200,000 kids could
lose their spots in preschool.

8) Two-thirds of the elderly poor are women, and Republicans are
taking aim at them too. A spending bill would cut funding for
employment services, meals, and housing for senior citizens.

9) Congress voted yesterday on a Republican amendment to cut all
federal funding from Planned Parenthood health centers, one of the
most trusted providers of basic health care and family planning in our
country.

10) And if that wasn't enough, Republicans are pushing to eliminate
all funds for the only federal family planning program. (For humans.
But Republican Dan Burton has a bill to provide contraception for wild
horses. You can't make this stuff up).