{"id":186579,"date":"2013-12-13T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T03:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/12\/13\/they-really-do-loathe-womens-sexuality\/"},"modified":"2013-12-13T22:40:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T03:40:00","slug":"they-really-do-loathe-womens-sexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/12\/13\/they-really-do-loathe-womens-sexuality\/","title":{"rendered":"They Really do Loathe Women&#8217;s Sexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hatred and fear of women actually enjoying sex, so they must be punished, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2013\/12\/11\/michigan-women-will-now-have-to-purchase-rape-insurance-to-get-an-abortion\/\">even if it is a rape<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Republican-dominated Michigan state legislature pushed through a bill on Wednesday requiring women to purchase separate insurance policies if they want to have an abortion, the Detroit Free Press reported.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI don\u2019t think elective abortion should be a part of insurance,\u201d state Rep. Nancy Jenkins (R) told the Free Press. \u201cThis doesn\u2019t affect access to abortion. It will still be legal when this law takes effect. Who should be required to pay? Not Michigan taxpayers.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">However, the law, which takes effect in early 2014, will also ban women from purchasing the policy after becoming pregnant under any circumstances, including rape and incest, causing opponents to refer to it as a policy on \u201crape insurance.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The bill passed by a 27-11 margin in the Senate, and a 62-47 vote in the House, mostly along party lines. According to the Associated Press, state Senate Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer (D) said during the debate that she was raped 20 years ago.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThank God it didn\u2019t result in a pregnancy because I can\u2019t imagine going through what I went through and then having to consider what to do about an unwanted pregnancy from an attacker,\u201d Whitmer was quoted as saying. \u201cIf this were law then and I had become pregnant, I would not be able to have coverage because of this. How extreme, how extreme does this measure need to be?\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What is wrong with these people?<\/p>\n<p>This is not ignorance, it is raw hatred and evil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hatred and fear of women actually enjoying sex, so they must be punished, even if it is a rape: The Republican-dominated Michigan state legislature pushed through a bill on Wednesday requiring women to purchase separate insurance policies if they want to have an abortion, the Detroit Free Press reported.\u201cI don\u2019t think elective abortion should be &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123,969,1045,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-evil","category-insurance","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}