Sohn: GOP prefers women like 'Stepford Wives'

File — This roomful of men — no women — met with Trump and Vice President Mike Pence in March to determine the fate of maternity coverage in health care plans. Those guys were members of the House Freedom Caucus telling POTUS that they wanted the GOP health care bill to no longer require insurance companies to offer maternity care in all health plans.
File — This roomful of men — no women — met with Trump and Vice President Mike Pence in March to determine the fate of maternity coverage in health care plans. Those guys were members of the House Freedom Caucus telling POTUS that they wanted the GOP health care bill to no longer require insurance companies to offer maternity care in all health plans.

We can never tire of conservative male politicians who think it is their right to control women and women's health.

On one hand, these guys provide comic relief.

Take Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pa., who on Tuesday voted for a bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks because he "was proud both to sponsor and vote for this important bill to clearly stand for the dignity and value of all human life, both the born and the unborn."

But, whoops, two days later he had to announce his House resignation after the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published texts revealing that when his mistress thought she was pregnant, he urged her to consider an abortion.

Yes, it is shades of Tennessee Rep. Scott DesJarlais, another Republican who boasted of "a 100 percent pro-life voting record" but couldn't abide abstinence and pushed for not one but three unexpected surprises to be aborted.

It's a child, not a choice, abortion opponents like to say.

Unless the pregnancy could interfere with a fellow's political future.

On the other hand, we can never tire of these men because we have to keep fighting them.

And these days we're getting a steady stream of their arrogant interference.

Just Friday, President Donald Trump moved to roll back the federal requirement for employers to include birth control coverage in their health insurance plans. The move will give way to more companies that will follow the Hobby Lobby example and cite moral or religious objections.

And don't forget the repugnant picture of the roomful of men - no women - who met with Trump and Vice President Mike Pence in March to determine the fate of maternity coverage in health care plans. Those guys were members of the House Freedom Caucus telling POTUS that they wanted the GOP health care bill to no longer require insurance companies to offer maternity care in all health plans.

So let's review: Republican men don't want abortion to be legal. But they don't want birth control to be easily obtainable either. Nor do they want insurance to cover maternity care. Of course they don't want poor people or the working poor to have insurance. And left to their druthers, there will simply be no Planned Parenthood.

The message is pretty clear, ladies. They don't care about women's health or lives. And they don't care about children's health or lives. We're just here to cook, smile and nod.

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