Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Chris Murphy’s attempt to brand his Republican rival Linda McMahon as “anti-woman” isn’t sitting well with the woman who leads Women for Linda.
“I had a feeling Congressman Murphy would look for ways to attack Linda McMahon, but I never imagined he would call her, of all things, ‘anti-woman,”’ wrote Kathy McShane, a Connecticut businesswoman who leads the coalition. “Has he noticed – Linda is a woman?”
Murphy is a man and, as such “never undergone a pap smear, a mammogram, or childbirth. Linda has,” McShane said.
She goes on to criticize the Murphy’s emphasis on so-called women’s issues such as abortion and birth control.
“As a woman, mother, and business owner myself, I am offended that Congressman Murphy would assume abortion is the issue I care about most. As a woman, mother and business owner, I care about our economy – jobs, the deficit, the shrinking middle class, and the increasing demands on my family’s income. To me, the focus on so-called ‘women’s issues’ implies that my reproductive organs render me incapable of caring about other issues so critical to our country.”
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Wow.
Linda McMahon’s website is devoid of any information on women’s issues. Being a women doesn’t not make one pro-women and just because she’s a women does not earn her my vote. In light of her party’s position on women’s issues I would have expected her to take a stand in defense of women’s rights. Yet she remains silent. She remains silent despite the fact that the GOP’s mission is to strip women of their legal right to chose. She remains silent while the GOP works tirelessly to defund Planned Parenthood, a healthcare provider to millions of low-income women. She remains silent while her party, the GOP, readies itself to overturn Obamacare. While I’m not a single issue voter, and jobs and the economy are critically important issues, we cannot ignore important social issues for fear that while we aren’t looking, they will be taken away. Look no further than the 20 states in the U.S. that have instituted restrictive laws that are demeaning to women, violate their privacy and impede a women’s right to exercise her free choice as proof of the importance of electing the right person to office. And when it comes to women’s issues, its NOT Linda McMahon.
Being a woman makes you a lot more likely to be “pro-woman” than being a Republican makes you likely to be anti-woman.
You liberals seem to confuse the terms “pro-woman” and “liberal woman”, and use them as if they are interchangable.
You imply a desire for repeal of Obamacare makes you anti-woman. According to the RCP average of polls, a large majority of Americans favor repeal of Obamacare. This automatically means that a large number of women favor repeal, and if you consider that roughly half of those who oppose repeal are men, this translates into a large majority of women opposing repeal. Has it ever occurred to you that these women have legitimate reasons for opposing what they feel is a bad law, and that tens to hundread of millions of American women don’t actually hate themselves?
You complain that Republican’s want PP defunded. Yep. Guess what, we already have laws against tax payer dollars funding abortion. There go those evil Republicans wanting to obey laws Congress has already passed. How dare they!
You liberals like to pretend that Republicans will actually stop abortion from being legal. This shows an astonishing lack of understanding of what would be involved. Republicans had full control of Congress, a Republican President and a consevative majority on the Supreme Court from 2001-2006. Is abortion illegal? Nope. A Constitutional Amendment or a Supreme Court reversal are necessary to ban abortion. A Constitutional Amendment requires 2/3 of both houses of Congress to vote for the ban, then 2/3 of the States to ratify that ban. In other words, it will NEVER happen. A Supreme reversal is just as unlikely considering there are currently 5 anti-abortion justices who never sniffed banning abortion.
But why allow reality to enter one’s consciousness in an election year.
Yeah Kathy! Go gettum!
Why Should Mr. Murphy let the truth get in the way of a good smear
Interesting they drop all this stuff on a Friday afternoon…..I agree with John. He speaks the truth
And by the way…if you got that pap smear at a Planned Parenthood, Republicans like Len Suzio don’t want you to get one ever again!
Here’s an idea!
PP could stop providing abortion services beyond referrals to unaffiliated, non-tax payer funded abortion doctors.
That way, no member of Congress would have any reason to oppose tax payer dollars for PP’s pap smears, breast examinations, ect.
By the way, Len Suzio is a State Senator. He has absolutely no say whatsoever in what the Federal Government chooses to fund or defund. This is just another abortion scare tactic Democrats use to make the uninformed believe their right to rid themselves of the inconvenience of a pregnancy will be stripped away if Republicans are elected.
Linda says she would have voted for the Blunt amendment, which would have allowed any employer to exclude any treatment, test, procedure or medication from a employee health insurance plan for any reason; not just any religious reason, but any reason the employer deems fit. Blood transfusions, maternity care, and yes, OBGYN care including pap smears.
If an employer provides access to health insurance as part of employee compensation (regardless of if employee or employer pays the premium) should the employer determine what kind of medical procedures or treatment the employee has access to? Should the employer be able to prohibit the employee from spending any provided compensation, salary or health insurance, for things the employer doesn’t like?
Passage of the the Blunt amendment, which might happen if Linda is elected, could put the employer in the position of deciding if employees can or cannot use not just birth control, but the employer would be able have to approve just about any medical treatment.
Think about this.
Here is the text of the Blunt Amendment:
http://www.blunt.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/12ca4c96-d98c-4b37-920a-cdb15edb24d4/S.%201813%20Amendment.pdf
Seems you have dramatically overstated the scope of this Amendment.
Further, if you don’t like the insurance your employer is buying for you, deny it and buy your own.