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Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz Accuses GOP of 'Making Sure That We Would Redefine Rape'
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Posted on 05/02/2012 6:28:34 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz Accuses GOP of 'Making Sure That We Would Redefine Rape' By Matt Cover

(CNSNews.com) – Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz of Florida, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, accused Republicans on Tuesday of "making sure that we would redefine rape."

“I think the agenda of the Republican Party and of Mitt Romney has clearly been--and can be interpreted as--an attack on the issues that matter to women,” Wasserman-Schultz said during a conference call.

“From the very beginning of this Congress,” she said, “the first priorities in the first bills the Republicans introduced repealing the Affordable Care Act which would dramatically impact women in a negative way [by] making sure that insurance companies could drop us or deny us coverage for preexisting conditions, making sure that we could once again be charged more simply because of our gender for insurance coverage, making sure that we would redefine rape as only being forcible rape--that was H.R. 3.”

Wasserman-Schultz was referring to the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, which sought to make the ban on federal funding of abortions permanent, removing the need to pass the Hyde Amendment every year.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; demagogue; dws; hydeamendment; obamacare; prolife; waronwomen; wassermanschultz
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To: Sub-Driver

And this woman reps the party that enables a religion of peace around the globe, a religion of peace which blames the woman for the rape.


21 posted on 05/02/2012 6:58:24 AM PDT by lurk
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To: Sub-Driver

The sad thing about Debbie is that she isn’t even embarrassed about all of the ridiculous things she says.


22 posted on 05/02/2012 7:01:01 AM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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To: From The Deer Stand

So men don’t have pre-existing conditions? And “Individual” heath insurance packages are gender based?


23 posted on 05/02/2012 7:09:43 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Sub-Driver

Liberals redefined murdering a child as “abortion”.

Liberals redefined murder of a rape victim as a “Muslim Honor Killing”.

Liberals redefined murder by terrorist acts as “activism”. (Bill Ayers and the Weatherman domestic terrorists and Obama’s best friend that wrote his books)


24 posted on 05/02/2012 7:09:58 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: popdonnelly
Democratic strategy: Keep telling lies, so that the opposition can’t keep up

True. Democrats do tell lies with abandon. But there is always a reason, a hidden agenda.

The question I have in this case is: what is the reason for this seemingly-bizarre narrative (since when is rape not forced?)? I guarantee you there is an original source - let's see if we can find it.

25 posted on 05/02/2012 7:16:17 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: ReformationFan
Found it:

Under H.R.3 - No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, an act to prohibit taxpayer funded abortions and to provide for conscience protections, and for other purposes; statutory rape would no longer be covered by Medicaid (taxpayers) in case where a minor were impregnated by an adult.

The Republicans are not attempting to redefine "rape". They are trying to limit taxpayer funding for abortions in cases where a minor is involved.

26 posted on 05/02/2012 7:25:27 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: massgopguy
Since this woman argued that all heterosexual sex is rape, I for one welcome the redefinition...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Dworkin
27 posted on 05/02/2012 7:37:02 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Sarah Palin: More miles per sound bite than the closest competitor...)
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To: morphing libertarian

You nailed it. She is a bully with her loud voice.


28 posted on 05/02/2012 7:40:03 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: reefdiver

You are so right.


29 posted on 05/02/2012 7:40:29 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Sub-Driver

Dems are still flogging that `war on women plusungood’ theme,
and Ms Frizzle could still make a freight train jump track.


30 posted on 05/02/2012 8:12:31 AM PDT by tumblindice (Our new, happy lives.)
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To: popdonnelly

Indeed what we call rape the democrats call it taxes,


31 posted on 05/02/2012 8:23:52 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Oh my! You should have included an ugly warning with the link!


32 posted on 05/02/2012 8:33:24 AM PDT by mulebones
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To: mulebones

Sorry. :)


33 posted on 05/02/2012 8:43:44 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Sarah Palin: More miles per sound bite than the closest competitor...)
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To: Sub-Driver

Wait until the Dems experience their beloved Sharia Law. Their hatred for Christianity far exceeds any fear for Sharia.


34 posted on 05/02/2012 9:22:18 AM PDT by crosshairs (Worship the Creator, not the created.)
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To: mulebones

Look on the bright side.

She’s dead.


35 posted on 05/02/2012 4:15:58 PM PDT by SirLurkedalot (Live Free Or Die)
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