Obama Pivots From War In Syria To Reviving “War On Women” With Pro-Abortion Fanatics Planned Parenthood And EMILY’s List…

Unable to start a war in Syria, President Obama is settling on reviving the War on Women.

Obama's team, fresh off a summer bookended by the IRS scandal and an uncomfortable struggle to rally Congress around a military strike on Syria, plans to reset the domestic policy debate with a new "women's initiative."

White House power Valerie Jarrett and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., will attend a kick-off event next week at the Center for American Progress, but Obama's allies previewed the the initiative in a conference call Friday.

"[T]his effort isn't behind one piece of legislation, per se, but really is about getting broad support action on the whole host of these issues — health, economic security, as well as leadership," said Neera Tanden of the Center for American Progress, which will host the Sept. 18 kickoff event.

Tanden hosted the call along with Planned Parenthood Action Fund's Cecile Richards, Mary Kay Henry of the Service Employees International Union, and Stephanie Schriock (who participated in the call under the auspices of American Women, but is perhaps better known as leader of EMILY'S List, a group that donates to pro-choice political candidates).

"What we're really trying to do in this initiative is to raise the voices of women to create much more public demand," Tanden also said. "If you look at these issues, they have really bipartisan support, [and] we want these issues to be ones where there's really a focus and a demand on both sides of the aisle to get things done, because — as Stephanie was pointing out — women really across the political spectrum think of these issues as ones that just really need to be addressed regardless of the politics."

Policies discussed ranged from increasing the minimum wage to the free contraception provided under Obamacare's HHS mandate.

Via: Washington Examiner

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Dem. Women’s Caucus: Republicans ‘Want to Relegate Women to the Back of the Bus’

Luci Ramirez and Jodi Salyers, both Texans, have just spent two hours hearing from top Democratic women like House minority leader Nancy Pelosi and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at the Democratic National Convention’s Women’s Caucus. The message? Republicans don’t like women and want to take away their birth control.

“We are celebrity overdosed!” says Ramirez “I didn’t realize how anti-birth control, how anti-women, period, the Republicans are until today,” adds Salyers.

The recurring theme: Republicans have what one speaker calls a “disregard for women’s freedom.”

House minority leader Nancy Pelosi began by mocking Republican emphasis on women at their convention last week in Tampa. “I love hearing how they loved their mother and loved their wife and all of that,” said Pelosi. “I’m interested to hear how they respect women’s decisions to determine the size of their family, if they choose to have a family. Republicans “are not even pro-birth control," Pelosi added, "That’s a radical position. That’s just wrong.”

Republicans do not want to force religious groups and taxpayers to pay for free contraceptives, abortifacients, and abortions for others. But banning contraceptives is not a Republican position. But that’s not what the audience heard Tuesday.

Republicans “want to take us backwards—so far back that we’ll be in the kitchen,” said Stephanie Schriock, president of the pro-choice group EMILY’s List.

Donna Brazile, vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, compared Republicans to segregationists: “They want to relegate women to the back of the bus,” she said. Democrats “don’t have to pretend to love women."

Via: Weekly Standard

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