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Concerned Women for America (CWA) revealed exactly how little concern they have for actual women, much less for America, this week when they sent out a letter attacking women who defend our country for having the nerve to believe they deserve full medical care after being raped. The mind-bogglingly vicious swipe at female soldiers had a couple of doozies, including the claim that allowing raped service members to access abortion “serves as a political distraction” from national security, as if it’s in the interest of national security to subject raped service members to forced childbirth. CWA also pretended to care about female troops with blather describing being raped and forced to bear a rapist’s child as merely “difficult circumstances” requiring “compassion and support,” as if they themselves aren’t putting servicewomen who’ve been raped in infinitely worse circumstances by limiting their access to abortion. (Perhaps Orwell should have lived to write a book about the doublespeak of anti-choicers.)
But in a letter dripping with congratulatory faux concern and naked disregard for female service members who have been raped, the most attention-grabbing quote was this:
“Women deserve better than simply being given abortion as a ‘cure-all.”
Beyond that is the poor logic of this quote. Let’s take their reasoning and put it into different contexts, to see how hateful it is:
Mugging victims deserve better than to have their wounds tended as if it were some “cure-all.”
Heart attack victims deserve better than simply being given Pacemakers as a “cure-all.”
"Forced Pregnancy? Right-Wing Women’s Group Thinks Women Raped in the Military Shouldn’t Get Abortions | | AlterNet (via heavenearthandhoratio)
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