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What Will You Do When the GOP Comes For Your Wife, Daughter, or Sister?
Last week a Texas woman with an ectopic pregnancy — a life-threatening condition that never produces a baby — was forced to wait until it ruptured inside her, putting her life in danger. Imagine if that was you or someone you loved.
Republican laws are now making doctors wait until women are nearly dead before they can provide life-saving medical treatment for lethal conditions like that ectopic pregnancy and incomplete miscarriages. This is insane.
What would you do if that was your daughter, wife, mother, or sister who was forced to bleed out for ten long days so a Republican politician could crow about being “pro-life”? They’d have to physically restrain me.
As you read these words, Republicans in state after state are feverishly pushing this to the next step to strip women of even more reproductive rights, including access to IUDs and birth control pills.
Republican pharmacists and drugstore clerks are refusing to sell condoms to married couples.
Meanwhile, Fox “News” appears to be trying to replicate Bill O’Reilly’s successful campaign to get Dr. George Tiller murdered, putting on TV the name and picture of the physician…