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In the United States, the "War on Women" is a perjorative term used to describe Republican -led (WP) policy initiatives enacted by the United States House of Representatives and state legislatures, primarily in 2011 and 2012. The measures largely affect women, placing restrictions on women's reproductive rights and defunding services primarily used by women.

The measures largely affect women by placing restrictions on reproductive rights, defunding services primarily used by women and failing to enact Democratic initiatives on such issues as Wikipedia:violence against women, workplace discrimination and equal pay.

The War on Women seeks to limit access to abortion and contraceptives, by creating barriers designed to discourage the practices, such as mandatory ultrasounds. The legislative efforts have sought to eliminate funding for women's health services, to redefine rape to only mean forcible rape, and to cut off funds for organizations like Planned Parenthood.

Legislation affecting women has been passed in the Wikipedia:112th United States Congress by the United States House of Representatives and in a numerous states with Republican-controlled legislatures and Republican Governors. In 2011, state legislatures enacted 135 provisions affecting women's reproductive rights.[1] Some of the legislation has been controversial, drawing criticism from both women's organizations and the Democratic Party.

The Left argues they are harmful to women.[2] Critics of the term have said that the term "War on Women" is pejorative, that it does not exist and that it is a ploy to influence women voters in an election year.[3]

While the term is not new[4][5] and has been used in other contexts[6], its use became common in American political discourse in 2011.[7][8][9] Use accelerated rapidly in 2012[10] as both liberal[11] and conservative[12] news outlets began to discuss the term. Variations include "The Republican War on Women" and "The Republican War on Contraceptives". Conservative commentators have coined reverse terms such as "The Democrat War on Mothers" and "The War on Family Values".

"War on Women" is currently used most often to describe efforts to limit access to abortion by creating barriers designed to discourage the practice; those that reduce or eliminate public funding for Wikipedia:women's health services; those that attempt to redefine rape to only mean forcible rape; and ones designed to cut off public funds for organizations like Wikipedia:Planned Parenthood, a large provider of abortions and family planning (WP).[13]


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Prior use of the term[edit]

Feminist Susan Faludi's 1991 book Wikipedia:Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, describes the increasingly negative depictions of feminists by the mainstream media.[14]Former Republican political consultant Tanya Melich's 1996 memoir, The Republican War Against Women: An Insider's Report from Behind the Lines, describes the incorporation of the Pro-life movement and opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment by Republicans as a divergence with feminist causes.[15]

George W. Bush's administration met with resistance from feminists and women's rights activists throughout his Presidency.[16][17] In 2004 Wikipedia:The Feminist Press published Laura Flander's collection of essays The W Effect: Bush's War On Women.[18]

Current background[edit]

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Republican-led efforts to limit reproductive rights continued during the George W. Bush administration and were met with resistance from women's rights activists as in the 2004 March for Women's Lives which drew hundreds of thousands of women to Washington, D.C. to protest anti-women measures.[19][20] In 2004 Wikipedia:The Feminist Press published Laura Flander's collection of essays The W Effect: Bush's War On Women.[21]

While the legislative agenda of the 112th United States Congress and state legislatures elected in 2010 are a continuation of past trends, 2011 and 2012 have seen an unprecedented rise in the passage of provisions related to women's health and reproductive rights.[22][23]

House of Representatives[edit]

In the 2010 midterm elections, the Republican Party won the majority in the House of Representatives. On January 4, 2011, the day after they convened, Wikipedia:Daily Kos writer Kaili Joy Gray wrote an article entitled "The Coming War on Women."[24] In the article, she outlined many of the measures that Republicans would later push through the House of Representatives, including Wikipedia:personhood laws, Wikipedia:fetal pain laws, and the effort to defund Planned Parenthood.[24]

In January 2011, the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act moved to redefine rape as it is used when determining whether abortions qualify for Medicaid funding. Under the language of the bill, statutory rape would not have counted as rape.[25] New York Representative Jerrold Nadler said that the legislation "represents an entirely new front in the war on women and their families."[26]

In February 2011, House Republicans proposed a budget that would cut $758 million from Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, a federal assistance program for low-income pregnant women, breastfeeding women, and infants and children under the age of five.[27] That month also saw House Republicans pass legislation designed to cut off funding for Wikipedia:Planned Parenthood.[28]

Florida Representative Wikipedia:Debbie Wasserman Schultz began using the term "War on Women" in March 2011.[29]

File:Shame On You Rush Limbaugh.ogv On January 20, 2012, Health and Human Services' Secretary Wikipedia:Kathleen Sebelius announced a mandate requiring that all health plans provide coverage for all contraceptives approved by the FDA as part of preventive health services for women.[30] Following complaints from Catholic bishops, an exception was created for religious institutions whereby an employee of a religious institution that does not wish to provide reproductive health care can seek it directly from the insurance company at no additional cost,[31] thus shifting the responsibility for the decision, while retaining the employee's right to that decision. Missouri Senator Wikipedia:Roy Blunt proposed an amendment (the Blunt Amendment) that would have "allowed employers to refuse to include contraception in health care coverage if it violated their religious or moral beliefs,"[32] removing the right to make the decision. The amendment was voted down 51-48 by the U.S. Senate on March 1, 2012.[33]

In February 2012, Republican Congressman Wikipedia:Darrell Issa convened an all-male panel addressing Wikipedia:contraceptive mandates for health insurers. He did not allow Sandra Fluke, a Wikipedia:Georgetown University Law Center student, to participate in the hearing.[34] Democratic Representatives then staged a separate panel where Fluke was allowed to speak.

Later that month, American conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh (WP) called Sandra Fluke a "slut" and "prostitute" and continued in similar fashion for the next two days.[35] Wikipedia:Foster Friess, the billionaire supporting the candidacy of Wikipedia:Rick Santorum, suggested in February 2012 that women put aspirin between their knees as a form of contraception.[36] Limbaugh echoed the sentiment, saying he would "buy all of the women at Georgetown University as much aspirin to put between their knees as they want.",[37] to which cartoonist Mike Peters replied, through a political cartoon character, that Limbaugh's problems might be best treated if he kept an aspirin between his lips.[38]

Wikipedia:Nancy Pelosi circulated a petition against the Republican war on women and asked that Republicans in the House of Representatives disavow the comments by Friess and Limbaugh, which she called "vicious and inappropriate."[39]


State legislatures[edit]

2011 and 2012 saw an unprecedented rise in the passage of provisions related to women's health and reproductive rights;[40][22] State legislatures across the United States introduced 1100 provisions restricting women's reproductive rights in 2011.[40][22]

Legislation was introduced to make ultrasounds mandatory,[41][42] which lead to protests[43] and one such law being overturned[41]

Legislation was introduced to narrow the time when abortions may be performed[42][41][44] and limiting insurance coverage of abortion.[42][44]

The first quarter of 2012 saw an additional 944 provisions introduced in state legislatures, half of which would restrict access to abortion.[45] Legislation has focused on mandatory ultrasounds, narrowing the time when abortions may be performed and limiting insurance coverage of abortion.[46]


Abortion[edit]

The legislation intrudes on both the right to privacy, defined as critical by the Supreme Court in the Roe v. Wade decision, and its counterpart in common wisdom, the rights of women to choose.

A Wikipedia:Guttmacher Institute analysis found that in 2011 there was an unprecedented rise in the number of provisions passed by state legislatures restricting abortion.[47][22] State legislatures enacted 135 pieces of legislation affecting women's reproductive rights.[1]

Many states have adopted model legislation written by Wikipedia:Americans United for Life, a pro-life advocacy group.[48][49] In June 2011, Wikipedia:Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United, wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal addressing the loss of federal funding that Indiana faced for having "declared war on women."[50]


Mandatory ultrasounds[edit]

In an attempt to influence the family planning decisionmaking process, many states passed, in 2011 and 2012, legislation requiring that women seeking abortions first undergo government-mandated ultrasounds.[51] Some states require that women view the image of the fetus and others require that women be offered the opportunity to listen to the fetal heartbeat.

Wikipedia would now like to show you a picture of a foetus, just to show you how much they fail to get it. I figure you're probably all big boys and girls and can tell the difference between the greater good and sentimentality/religious fantasy. Hope I am not wrong. Sorry if I am. Ultrasound of an embryo at 8 weeks

Transvaginal ultrasounds, which involve the physician inserting a probe into the woman's vagina, are required by the legislation. Critics have questioned the medical necessity of the procedure and its similarity to some states' legal definition of rape,[52] but lawmakers considered only the requirement of the ultrasound, and since many women's pregnancies are not far enough along to get an image via a traditional ultrasound, they mandated the more invasive procedure.

Iowa politicians proposed the "Right to Responsibility" "Women's Right to Know" bill in January 2012 (gee, thanks, Iowa politicians), which would require that a woman undergo an ultrasound and be asked if she would like to see an image of the fetus and listen to its heartbeat prior to receiving an abortion.[53]

Virginia State legislators passed a bill in 2012 requiring women to have an ultrasound before having an abortion. The legislation, signed by Governor Wikipedia:Bob McDonnell, would require that the provider of a abortion make a copy of the fetal image and include it in the file of the patient.[54]

In Louisiana, where mothers are already required to view ultrasounds of their fetuses before receiving an abortion, lawmakers proposed a bill that would require them to listen to the embryonic/fetal heartbeat as well.[55]

Pennsylvania Governor Wikipedia:Tom Corbett drew criticism when he said of his state's new mandatory ultrasound law that a woman would "just have to close your eyes."[56]

A Kansas bill passed March 2012 requires doctors to warn women seeking abortions that they are linked to Wikipedia:breast cancer,[57] a claim that has been refuted by the medical community.[58] Other legislation in Kansas has also been linked to the War on Women.[59] In October 2011, the City Council in Wikipedia:Topeka, Kansas repealed its Domestic Violence Law, effectively decriminalizing spousal abuse.[60][61]

Mandatory ultrasounds[edit]

In 2011 and 2012, many states passed legislation requiring that women seeking abortions first undergo government-mandated ultrasounds.[62] Some states require that women view the image of the fetus and others require that women be offered the opportunity to listen to the fetal heartbeat. Since many women's pregnancies are not far enough along to get an image via a traditional ultrasound, transvaginal ultrasounds, which involve the physician inserting a probe into the woman's vagina are required. Critics have questioned the value of having a medically unnecessary procedure, and characterized it as similar to some states' legal definition of rape.[63] Writer Megan Carpentier underwent the procedure and indicated that it was not like being raped, saying that it was "uncomfortable to the point of being painful, emotionally triggering... and something that no government should force its citizens to undergo to make a political point."[64][65] thumb|right|Ultrasound of an embryo at 8 weeks Iowa politicians proposed the "Women's Right to Know" bill in January 2012, which would require that a woman undergo an ultrasound and be asked if she would like to see an image of the fetus and listen to its heartbeat prior to receiving an abortion.[66]

Virginia State legislators passed a bill in 2012 requiring women to have an ultrasound before having an abortion. The legislation, signed by Governor Wikipedia:Bob McDonnell, would require that the provider of a abortion make a copy of the fetal image and include it in the file of the patient.[67]

In Wikipedia:Louisiana, where mothers are already required to view ultrasounds of their fetuses before receiving an abortion, lawmakers proposed a bill that would require them to listen to the embryonic/fetal heartbeat as well.[68]

Wikipedia:Pennsylvania Governor Wikipedia:Tom Corbett drew criticism when he said of his state's new mandatory ultrasound law that a woman would "just have to close your eyes."[69]

A Wikipedia:Kansas bill passed March 2012 requires doctors to warn women seeking abortions that they are linked to Wikipedia:breast cancer,[70] a claim that has been refuted by the medical community.[71] Other legislation in Kansas has been criticized as unfair to women;[72] in October 2011, for example, the City Council in Wikipedia:Topeka, Kansas repealed its Domestic Violence Law, effectively decriminalizing spousal abuse.[73][74][75]



Gestational limits on abortion[edit]

Georgia legislators passed HB 954, a "fetal pain bill" criminalizing abortions performed after the 20th week of pregnancy. The bill, which does not contain exemptions for rape or incest, has been referred to as the "women as livestock bill" by opponents.[76] Representative Terry England made a comparison between women seeking abortions for stillborn fetuses to delivering calves and pigs on a farm.[77] In April 2012, Arizona passed legislation banning abortions occurring 20 weeks after a woman's Wikipedia:last menstrual period. Similar legislation has been passed in Nebraska,[78] Alabama,[79] Georgia,[80] Indiana,[81] Idaho[82] and Oklahoma.[83]

States such as Ohio have proposed heartbeat bills, that would prohibit abortions when the heartbeat of the fetus can be detected. Fetal heartbeats can be detected as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.[84]

Redefining the beginning of human personhood[edit]

Voters in Mississippi rejected Initiative 26 in 2011, a measure that would have declared that human life begins at fertilization. Critics of the initiative indicated that the law would have made abortion illegal in cases where the mother’s life is in danger.[85]

In February 2011, South Dakota state legislators considered a bill that would change that state's definition of justifiable homicide to allow the killing of abortion providers.[86] Similar legislation was considered in Iowa.[87]

In Arizona, legislators passed a bill protecting doctors from Wikipedia:wrongful birth suits.[88] Under the legislation, doctors who don't inform mothers about prenatal problems would not be liable for malpractice.[89] The Kansas House passed a similar bill in March 2012, shielding doctors from malpractice suits if they don't tell mothers their children have birth defects.[90]

Workplace discrimination[edit]

Women’s earnings as a percentage of men’s earnings, by state and Wikipedia:Puerto Rico, 2007. Data from the Income, Earnings, and Poverty Data From the 2007 American Community Survey.[91]

A bill passed by the Arizona House would allow employers to ask women whether they are using Wikipedia:birth control to avoid becoming pregnant.[92]

In April 2012, Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin repealed his state's Equal Pay Enforcement Act, which allowed workplace discrimination victims redress in state courts.[93] The law was passed to address the large gap between the wages of men and women in Wisconsin.[94] Republican State Senator Wikipedia:Glenn Grothman said of the repeal, "You could argue that money is more important for men. I think a guy in their first job, maybe because they expect to be a breadwinner someday, may be a little more money-conscious."[95] The repeal was criticized for reinforcing the Wikipedia:gender pay gap, a recurrent theme in the struggle for women's rights. Law student Sandra Fluke wrote in opposition to the measure, highlighting legislation that supports equal pay for equal work, such as the Wikipedia:Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009.[96]

Defunding women's organizations[edit]

The War on Women has included a drive to eliminate state and federal funding for Wikipedia:Planned Parenthood. Texas, Indiana and Kansas have passed legislation in an effort to defund the organization. Arizona, Ohio and New Hampshire are considering similar legislation. In Texas, lawmakers reduced funds for family planning from $111M to $37M.[97] The future of the Women's Health Program in Texas, which receives 90% of its funding from the federal government, is unclear.[98] The Indiana legislature passed a bill restricting Medicaid funds for Planned Parenthood.[99] Indiana Representative Bob Morris later referred to the Wikipedia:Girl Scouts of the USA as a tactical arm of Planned Parenthood.[100] In Kansas, where abortion doctor Wikipedia:George Tiller was murdered in a church,[101] the state's Department of Health and Environment maintains a 'Woman’s Right to Know' website with "4-D ultrasound video/audio" of fetuses.[102] A 2011 Kansas statute cut funding to Planned Parenthood.[103]

In April 2012, Wisconsin Governor Wikipedia:Scott Walker signed into law a bill requiring doctors who prescribe the Wikipedia:morning-after pill to have three meetings with patients or be subject to felony charges. Planned Parenthood suspended non-surgical abortions in the state.[104]

On January 31, 2012, breast cancer organization Wikipedia:Susan G. Komen for the Cure stopped funding Planned Parenthood, citing a congressional investigation by Rep. Wikipedia:Cliff Stearns and a newly created internal rule about not funding organizations under any federal, state or local investigation.[105] Four days later, Komen's Board of Directors reversed the decision and announced that it would amend the policy to "make clear that disqualifying investigations must be criminal and conclusive in nature and not political".[106] Several top-level staff members resigned from Komen during the controversy.[107]

Violence against women[edit]

The drunk by Wikipedia:George Bellows

The renewal of the Wikipedia:Violence Against Women Act, which provides for community violence prevention programs and battered womens' shelters, was fiercely opposed by conservative Republicans in 2012.[108] The Act was originally passed in 1994 and has been reauthorized by Congress twice.[109][110] Senate Minority leader Wikipedia:Mitch McConnell, who has previously voted against renewal of the Act, said the bill was a distraction from a small business bill.[111] In October 2011, the City Council in Wikipedia:Topeka, Kansas repealed its Domestic Violence Law, effectively decriminalizing spousal abuse.[112][113]

Criticism[edit]

Critics of the term have said that the War on Women does not exist and have suggested that it is a ploy to influence women voters. Wikipedia:Reince Priebus, the Chairman of the RNC, referred to the War as a "fiction", saying "If the Democrats said we had a war on caterpillars and every mainstream media outlet talked about the fact that Republicans have a war on caterpillars, then we'd have problems with caterpillars."[114][115][3] Sufficient proliferation of evils can render compromised even straw man (WP) arguments in the form of Reductio ad absurdum; if Priebus had thought about it a little harder, she would have realized that right-wing interests, in the 'person' of pesticide companies, do indeed mount what amounts to a war on caterpillars as well, and have done so for a good part of a century.

Republican Representative Wikipedia:Cathy McMorris Rodgers called the war a myth, saying "It’s an effort to drive a political wedge in an election year." Referring to the 2010 elections and Wikipedia:Nancy Pelosi, she said that "It could be argued that the women actually unelected the first woman Speaker of the House."[116]

Senator Wikipedia:John McCain, when asked by journalist David Gregory if there was a Republican War on Women, said "I think that there is a perception out there because of how this whole contraception issue played out — ah, we need to get off of that issue, in my view."[117]

PoV[edit]

Some just wrong, some propaganda, some of peripheral relevance, and therefore undue weight

Centrist-right PoV[edit]

It is convenient for centrist Republicans to blame the rise of right wing populist movements with fervor, damaging views and little rationale, on the movements required to balance inequities in the (relatively) far Left. Below is such.

The Republican Party supported the passage of women's suffrage in 1920, with many Republican-controlled state legislatures approving women's right to vote.[118] President Wikipedia:George H. W. Bush and Senator Wikipedia:Barry Goldwater both supported Wikipedia:family planning.[118]

In Republican political consultant Tanya Melich's 1996 memoir, The Republican War Against Women: An Insider's Report from Behind the Lines, she describes how Wikipedia:Roe v. Wade and the failure of the Wikipedia:Equal Rights Amendment precipitated the party's move to the right. Melich details how the Reagan and Bush administrations excluded feminist women.[119] Wikipedia:Susan Faludi's 1991 book Wikipedia:Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, describes a media-driven backlash against the feminist advances of the 1970s.[120]

Pro-life PoV[edit]

Proponents of those efforts believe that abortion violates the Wikipedia:right to life,[121] contraception violates religious freedom[122][123] and laws to protect employees vastly overstep by limiting or eliminating many of the employer's rights. The use of public funds for these activities intensifies the arguments on each side.



Gestational limits on abortion[edit]

Georgia legislators passed HB 954, a "fetal pain bill" criminalizing abortions performed after the 20th week of pregnancy. The bill, which does not contain exemptions for rape or Wikipedia:incest, has been referred to as the "women as livestock bill" by opponents.[124] Representative Wikipedia:Terry England made a comparison between women seeking abortions for stillborn fetuses to delivering calves and pigs on a farm.[125] In April 2012, Wikipedia:Arizona passed legislation banning abortions occurring 20 weeks after a woman's Wikipedia:last menstrual period. Similar legislation has been passed in Wikipedia:Nebraska,[126] Alabama,[127] Georgia,[128] Indiana,[129] Idaho[130] and Oklahoma.[131]

States such as Wikipedia:Ohio have proposed so-called "heartbeat bills" that would prohibit abortions when the heartbeat of the fetus can be detected. Fetal heartbeats can be detected as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.[132]

Redefining the beginning of human personhood[edit]

Voters in Mississippi rejected Initiative 26 in 2011, a measure that would have declared that human life begins at fertilization. Critics of the initiative indicated that the law would have made abortion illegal in cases where the mother’s life is in danger.[133]

In February 2011, South Dakota state legislators considered a bill that would change that state's definition of justifiable homicide to allow the killing of abortion providers.[134] Similar legislation was considered in Iowa.[135]

In Arizona, legislators passed a bill protecting doctors from Wikipedia:wrongful birth suits.[136] Under the legislation, doctors who don't inform mothers about prenatal problems would not be liable for malpractice.[137] The Kansas House passed a similar bill in March 2012, shielding doctors from malpractice suits if they don't tell mothers their children have birth defects.[138]

Workplace discrimination[edit]

[[Wikipedia:File:US Gender pay gap, by state.png|thumb|350px|Women’s earnings as a percentage of men’s earnings, by state and Wikipedia:Puerto Rico, 2007. Data from the Income, Earnings, and Poverty Data From the 2007 American Community Survey.[91]]] A bill passed by the Arizona House would allow employers to ask women whether they are using Wikipedia:birth control to avoid becoming pregnant.[139][140]

In April 2012, Governor Scott Walker signed into law an act that repealed Wisconsin's Equal Pay Enforcement Act, which allowed workplace discrimination victims redress in state courts.[141] The law was passed to address the large gap between the wages of men and women in Wisconsin.[142] Republican State Senator Wikipedia:Glenn Grothman said of the repeal, "You could argue that money is more important for men. I think a guy in their first job, maybe because they expect to be a breadwinner someday, may be a little more money-conscious."[143] The repeal was criticized for reinforcing the Wikipedia:gender pay gap, a recurrent theme in the struggle for women's rights. Law student Sandra Fluke wrote in opposition to the measure, highlighting legislation that supports equal pay for equal work, such as the Wikipedia:Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009.[144]

Defunding Planned Parenthood[edit]

The legislative policy initiative described as a War on Women has included a drive to eliminate state and federal funding for Wikipedia:Planned Parenthood. Texas, Indiana and Kansas have passed legislation in an effort to defund the organization. Arizona, Ohio and New Hampshire are considering similar legislation. In Texas, lawmakers reduced funds for family planning from $111M to $37M.[145] The future of the Women's Health Program in Texas, which receives 90% of its funding from the federal government, is unclear.[146] The Indiana legislature passed a bill restricting Medicaid funds for Planned Parenthood.[147] Indiana Representative Bob Morris later referred to the Wikipedia:Girl Scouts of the USA as a tactical arm of Planned Parenthood.[148] In Kansas, where abortion doctor Wikipedia:George Tiller was murdered in a church,[149] the state's Department of Health and Environment maintains a 'Woman’s Right to Know' website with "4-D ultrasound video/audio" of fetuses.[150] A 2011 Kansas statute cut funding to Planned Parenthood.[151]

In April 2012, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed into law a bill requiring doctors who prescribe the Wikipedia:morning-after pill to have three meetings with patients or be subject to felony charges. Planned Parenthood suspended non-surgical abortions in the state.[152]

On January 31, 2012, breast cancer organization Wikipedia:Susan G. Komen for the Cure stopped funding Planned Parenthood, citing a congressional investigation by Rep. Wikipedia:Cliff Stearns and a newly created internal rule about not funding organizations under any federal, state or local investigation.[153] Four days later, Komen's Board of Directors reversed the decision and announced that it would amend the policy to "make clear that disqualifying investigations must be criminal and conclusive in nature and not political".[154] Several top-level staff members resigned from Komen during the controversy.[155]

Violence against women[edit]

The renewal of the Wikipedia:Violence Against Women Act, which provides for community violence prevention programs and battered womens' shelters, was fiercely opposed by conservative Republicans in 2012.[156] The Act was originally passed in 1994 and has been reauthorized by Congress twice.[157][158] Senate Minority leader Wikipedia:Mitch McConnell, who has previously voted against renewal of the Act, said the bill was a distraction from a small business bill.[159]

In October 2011, the City Council in Wikipedia:Topeka, Kansas repealed its Domestic Violence Law.[160][161][75]

Reaction[edit]

Response from Republicans[edit]

Critics of the term have said that the War on Women does not exist and have suggested that it is a ploy to influence women voters. Wikipedia:Reince Priebus, the Chairman of the RNC, referred to the War as a "fiction", saying "If the Democrats said we had a war on caterpillars and every mainstream media outlet talked about the fact that Republicans have a war on caterpillars, then we'd have problems with caterpillars."[162][163][3]

Republican Representative Wikipedia:Cathy McMorris Rodgers called the war a myth, saying "It’s an effort to drive a political wedge in an election year." Referring to the 2010 elections and Wikipedia:Nancy Pelosi, she said that "It could be argued that the women actually unelected the first woman Speaker of the House."[164]

Senator Wikipedia:John McCain, when asked by journalist David Gregory if there was a Republican War on Women, said "I think that there is a perception out there because of how this whole contraception issue played out — ah, we need to get off of that issue, in my view."[165]

Republican Senator Wikipedia:Lisa Murkowski countered the criticism of her fellow party members, challenging them to "go home and talk to your wife and your daughters" if they did not think there was a war on women, saying "It makes no sense to make this attack on women."[166]

Response from women's organizations[edit]

On April 28, 2012, marches were held in 55 cities protesting the War on Women, organized by a group which formed in response to the War on Women, Wikipedia:UniteWomen.org. Although response was good, with an estimated crowd of between 1,500 and 2,000 attendees for the Denver march, for example, media coverage was sparse, leading to complaints and accusations of "media bias." [167]

See also[edit]

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References[edit]

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