Of course, because what could be more “misogynist” than being opposed to paying to kill someone else’s baby?
Note: Calling it a GOP bill isn’t 100% accurate, it was sponsored by Republicans but had bipartisan support when it passed yesterday.
MSNBC’s Bashir: “Misogynist” GOP Wants to “Let Women Die” — Newsbusters
BASHIR: Can I play for you some remarks from your colleague Representative Jackie Speier, who previously made, as you know, an emotional admission, that she had to terminate a pregnancy. Today, she said this. Take a listen.
REP. JACKIE SPEIER, (D), CALIFORNIA (from speech on House floor): What my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are attempting to do is misogynist. It is absolutely misogynist.
BASHIR: Do you agree with her? Is this content — is the content of this bill misogynistic?
DEGETTE: You can hardly not agree with Congresswoman Speier when you see the assault on women’s health that we’ve had this whole Congress. I mean, they’ve tried to cut women’s right to full reproductive choice; they’ve tried to cut funding for birth control and for cervical and breast cancer screening; and on and on and on. So the whole anti-women’s health agenda is a misogynist agenda. . . . I mean, the problem is, they are catering to the far extreme right. . . . they spend all their time frittering away, undermining the environmental laws, undermining a woman’s right to choose, putting women’s health at jeopardy. . . .
BASHIR: So are you suggesting that, in purely cynical terms, what they’re trying to do is have this- kind of, what you said was a war on women, in order to injure the President? Is that really who they want to injure? And they’re using the issue of women’s reproductive rights in order to undermine the possibility, or even prevent the possibility, of there being any kind of substantive progress through the Congress on this jobs bill that the President has already presented?
DEGETTE: I really have no idea why the Republicans in the House would bring up yet another bill that restricts a woman’s right to choose here and now, because we’ve already passed many of those bills. It — I think what it does is it caters to the far right, but it doesn’t do anything to help us put more money in for women’s health, to help women get cervical and breast cancer screening, to help them get the full range of reproductive services that they need, or to create one single job in this country.