The Assault on Womens Sexual and Reproductive Rights

[Truly Scrumptious]

The War on Women by the Ridiculous Numbers
By Erin Gloria Ryan
Jun 6, 2012 3:50 PM

Over the last year and a half or so, conservative lawmakers have been feverishly at work enacting laws designed to shove the whole government into your vagina, since it's for damn sure not going to be looking over your boss's shoulder to make sure he's not screwing you over. Here's a run-down of the War on Women, in convenient digestible bits that hopefully won't interfere with that pregnancy you're working on.

1,100

Total number of reproductive rights-related laws introduced by state lawmakers in 2011.

604

Number of abortion and reproductive rights-related provisions introduced at the state level as of June 1.

8.2%

The US unemployment rate.

0

Number of jobs created by wasting time debating hundreds of reproductive rights-restricting laws.

408,425

Number of children who were in the US foster care system at the end of 2010.

96,772

Number of those children with caseworkers who said they were waiting to be adopted.

4,230

Number of adoptable foster children who would not have stadium seats if you tried to put all of them into the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.

25

United States' ranking on Save the Children's list of best countries for mothers.

0

Number of podium pounding speeches given by "pro-life" Congressional leaders on how embarrassing it is that the US has the fourth highest maternal mortality rate of any industrialized nation.

Between $2 and $6

Amount of taxpayer money saved for every $1 spent on birth control.

$11 billion

Cost of unplanned pregnancies to the US taxpayer — per year.

$11.2 billion

Amount Broadway musicals contribute to New York City's economy per year.

$3.71 billion

Facebook's net revenues in 2011.

12 zillion

(Est.) Number of extremely irritating, almost Broadway musical-level overwrought debates Americans have gotten into about contraception on Facebook.

$270,000

Estimated cost of raising a child from birth to age 17 in the US.

$10,784

Average amount of additional income an American woman would earn annually if she were a man.

$431,360

Amount of money an American woman can expect to be stiffed out of during the duration of her working career.

$16,704

Amount a woman can expect to spend on birth control pills that cost $48 per month, if she takes them for the duration of her fertile years.

99%

Percentage of sexually active American women who will use birth control in their lifetimes.

Between $5,000 and $20,000

Average cost of childbirth in the US.

142

Number of advertisers who fled Rush Limbaugh's radio show after he called activist Sandra Fluke a "slut" and sarcastically suggested she perform in internet porn videos in exchange for taxpayer subsidized birth control.

142

Number of seconds a non-masochist can listen to Rush Limbaugh talk in that voice of his before they want to hire a man with meaty forearms to temporarily disable their sense of hearing.

72

Number of hours the state of South Dakota proposes women wait between receiving an ultrasound and having a legal medical procedure. That's 3 days.

72

Approximate number of hours that Christians believe elapsed between when Jesus was buried and when he rose from the dead.

0

Number of things Jesus said about abortion or zygotes.

47

Number of Senators who voted against the Paycheck Fairness Act.

0

Number of Republicans who voted in favor of the Paycheck Fairness Act

445

Number of elected legislators currently serving in the House or Senate who are men, out of 538 total.

55%

Proportion of immigrants to the US who are female.

3.5

Times more likely a Native American woman is to be victimized by domestic violence than a white woman.

221

Number of House Republicans who voted in favor of a version of the Violence Against Women Act that stripped protections for undocumented immigrant, Native, and LGBT women.

0

Difference in human-ness between an undocumented immigrant, a Native American woman, an LGBT woman and a straight white American woman with a passport.

http://jezebel.com/war-on-women/

[Cin]

Originally Posted by Truly Scrumptious

The War on Women by the Ridiculous Numbers
By Erin Gloria Ryan
Jun 6, 2012 3:50 PM

Over the last year and a half or so, conservative lawmakers have been feverishly at work enacting laws designed to shove the whole government into your vagina, since it's for damn sure not going to be looking over your boss's shoulder to make sure he's not screwing you over. Here's a run-down of the War on Women, in convenient digestible bits that hopefully won't interfere with that pregnancy you're working on.

1,100

Total number of reproductive rights-related laws introduced by state lawmakers in 2011.

604

Number of abortion and reproductive rights-related provisions introduced at the state level as of June 1.

8.2%

The US unemployment rate.

0

Number of jobs created by wasting time debating hundreds of reproductive rights-restricting laws.

408,425

Number of children who were in the US foster care system at the end of 2010.

96,772

Number of those children with caseworkers who said they were waiting to be adopted.

4,230

Number of adoptable foster children who would not have stadium seats if you tried to put all of them into the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.

25

United States' ranking on Save the Children's list of best countries for mothers.

0

Number of podium pounding speeches given by "pro-life" Congressional leaders on how embarrassing it is that the US has the fourth highest maternal mortality rate of any industrialized nation.

Between $2 and $6

Amount of taxpayer money saved for every $1 spent on birth control.

$11 billion

Cost of unplanned pregnancies to the US taxpayer — per year.

$11.2 billion

Amount Broadway musicals contribute to New York City's economy per year.

$3.71 billion

Facebook's net revenues in 2011.

12 zillion

(Est.) Number of extremely irritating, almost Broadway musical-level overwrought debates Americans have gotten into about contraception on Facebook.

$270,000

Estimated cost of raising a child from birth to age 17 in the US.

$10,784

Average amount of additional income an American woman would earn annually if she were a man.

$431,360

Amount of money an American woman can expect to be stiffed out of during the duration of her working career.

$16,704

Amount a woman can expect to spend on birth control pills that cost $48 per month, if she takes them for the duration of her fertile years.

99%

Percentage of sexually active American women who will use birth control in their lifetimes.

Between $5,000 and $20,000

Average cost of childbirth in the US.

142

Number of advertisers who fled Rush Limbaugh's radio show after he called activist Sandra Fluke a "slut" and sarcastically suggested she perform in internet porn videos in exchange for taxpayer subsidized birth control.

142

Number of seconds a non-masochist can listen to Rush Limbaugh talk in that voice of his before they want to hire a man with meaty forearms to temporarily disable their sense of hearing.

72

Number of hours the state of South Dakota proposes women wait between receiving an ultrasound and having a legal medical procedure. That's 3 days.

72

Approximate number of hours that Christians believe elapsed between when Jesus was buried and when he rose from the dead.

0

Number of things Jesus said about abortion or zygotes.

47

Number of Senators who voted against the Paycheck Fairness Act.

0

Number of Republicans who voted in favor of the Paycheck Fairness Act

445

Number of elected legislators currently serving in the House or Senate who are men, out of 538 total.

55%

Proportion of immigrants to the US who are female.

3.5

Times more likely a Native American woman is to be victimized by domestic violence than a white woman.

221

Number of House Republicans who voted in favor of a version of the Violence Against Women Act that stripped protections for undocumented immigrant, Native, and LGBT women.

0

Difference in human-ness between an undocumented immigrant, a Native American woman, an LGBT woman and a straight white American woman with a passport.

http://jezebel.com/war-on-women/

55
Likely percentage of people in the US who can be counted on to vote against their own self-interest.

[*Anya*]

This is enough to make a woman cry, no less a feminist.

Sadly, it only received 4 reps.

Reminded me of this and it is quoted:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Ain't I A Woman by Sojourner Truth Women's Convention, Akron, Ohio, 1851

Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what's all this here talking about?

That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?

Then they talk about this thing in the head; what's this they call it? [member of audience whispers, "intellect"] That's it, honey. What's that got to do with women's rights or negroes' rights? If my cup won't hold but a pint, and yours holds a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full?

Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back , and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.

Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say."

Originally Posted by Truly Scrumptious

The War on Women by the Ridiculous Numbers
By Erin Gloria Ryan
Jun 6, 2012 3:50 PM

Over the last year and a half or so, conservative lawmakers have been feverishly at work enacting laws designed to shove the whole government into your vagina, since it's for damn sure not going to be looking over your boss's shoulder to make sure he's not screwing you over. Here's a run-down of the War on Women, in convenient digestible bits that hopefully won't interfere with that pregnancy you're working on.

1,100

Total number of reproductive rights-related laws introduced by state lawmakers in 2011.

604

Number of abortion and reproductive rights-related provisions introduced at the state level as of June 1.

8.2%

The US unemployment rate.

0

Number of jobs created by wasting time debating hundreds of reproductive rights-restricting laws.

408,425

Number of children who were in the US foster care system at the end of 2010.

96,772

Number of those children with caseworkers who said they were waiting to be adopted.

4,230

Number of adoptable foster children who would not have stadium seats if you tried to put all of them into the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.

25

United States' ranking on Save the Children's list of best countries for mothers.

0

Number of podium pounding speeches given by "pro-life" Congressional leaders on how embarrassing it is that the US has the fourth highest maternal mortality rate of any industrialized nation.

Between $2 and $6

Amount of taxpayer money saved for every $1 spent on birth control.

$11 billion

Cost of unplanned pregnancies to the US taxpayer — per year.

$11.2 billion

Amount Broadway musicals contribute to New York City's economy per year.

$3.71 billion

Facebook's net revenues in 2011.

12 zillion

(Est.) Number of extremely irritating, almost Broadway musical-level overwrought debates Americans have gotten into about contraception on Facebook.

$270,000

Estimated cost of raising a child from birth to age 17 in the US.

$10,784

Average amount of additional income an American woman would earn annually if she were a man.

$431,360

Amount of money an American woman can expect to be stiffed out of during the duration of her working career.

$16,704

Amount a woman can expect to spend on birth control pills that cost $48 per month, if she takes them for the duration of her fertile years.

99%

Percentage of sexually active American women who will use birth control in their lifetimes.

Between $5,000 and $20,000

Average cost of childbirth in the US.

142

Number of advertisers who fled Rush Limbaugh's radio show after he called activist Sandra Fluke a "slut" and sarcastically suggested she perform in internet porn videos in exchange for taxpayer subsidized birth control.

142

Number of seconds a non-masochist can listen to Rush Limbaugh talk in that voice of his before they want to hire a man with meaty forearms to temporarily disable their sense of hearing.

72

Number of hours the state of South Dakota proposes women wait between receiving an ultrasound and having a legal medical procedure. That's 3 days.

72

Approximate number of hours that Christians believe elapsed between when Jesus was buried and when he rose from the dead.

0

Number of things Jesus said about abortion or zygotes.

47

Number of Senators who voted against the Paycheck Fairness Act.

0

Number of Republicans who voted in favor of the Paycheck Fairness Act

445

Number of elected legislators currently serving in the House or Senate who are men, out of 538 total.

55%

Proportion of immigrants to the US who are female.

3.5

Times more likely a Native American woman is to be victimized by domestic violence than a white woman.

221

Number of House Republicans who voted in favor of a version of the Violence Against Women Act that stripped protections for undocumented immigrant, Native, and LGBT women.

0

Difference in human-ness between an undocumented immigrant, a Native American woman, an LGBT woman and a straight white American woman with a passport.

http://jezebel.com/war-on-women/

[Cin]

Originally Posted by *Anya*

This is enough to make a woman cry, no less a feminist.

Sadly, it only received 4 reps.

Reminded me of this and it is quoted:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Ain't I A Woman by Sojourner Truth Women's Convention, Akron, Ohio, 1851

Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what's all this here talking about?

That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?

Then they talk about this thing in the head; what's this they call it? [member of audience whispers, "intellect"] That's it, honey. What's that got to do with women's rights or negroes' rights? If my cup won't hold but a pint, and yours holds a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full?

Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back , and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.

Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say."

Thank you for posting this.