When elections get close the Liberals bring up this Crap and "fight for the middle class" Same old crap out of their same old playbook.
Republican presidential candidate, Ted Cruz spoke to Iowans at a Town Hall event on Tuesday night in which he had one of those moments that conservatives love. The candidate proclaimed that there was no actual “war on women” and that this was just a concocted notion by Hillary Clinton and the left since Clinton has nothing positive to run on (particularly not Obamacare, foreign policy and the economy).
Cruz noted Clinton’s position on abortion as “on demand in all circumstances up until the moment of birth” and highlighted her support for “partial-birth abortion with taxpayer funding, with no notification for parents in any circumstances.” He claimed that since that position is “nuts,” she has shifted the narrative to contraceptives instead and created her faux “war on women.”
Turns out, Cruz is exactly right—as usual. The “war on women” is a leftist fabrication—from the false accusations that Republicans are taking away contraception to the made-up “wage gap,” no “evidence” for this “war” is actually backed by evidence.
Here are five reasons that prove Cruz is exactly right on the so-called “war":
No one wants to take away your condoms. Chill out.
Women are free to buy and use as much birth control as they please; there is no mainstream Republican push for legislation that abolishes birth control in any form.
The issue Democrats like to point to as “evidence” that the Republicans want to somehow deny them the right to birth control is the Republican pushback to the mandate issued in Obamacare which would force employers to pay for birth control, including abortion-inducing birth control, for its employees no matter their religious convictions. The issue here is about the First Amendment and the freedom of religion and not the denial of birth control:
The fact that the White House thinks this is about contraception is the whole problem. This is about freedom of religion. It's right there in the First Amendment, you can't miss it," Sen. Mitch McConnell told "Face the Nation" on Sunday. "And the government doesn't get to decide for religious people what their religious beliefs are. They (the people) get to decide that.
In other words, we can make a case for a "war on Christians" it seems, but no war on women.
There is no “gender wage gap."
As The Daily Wire and numerous other publications have debunked before, the “gender wage gap” is completely mythical. Essentially, the mean of female and male incomes are referenced without basic accommodations taken into account for time lost in the workforce for bearing and raising children and job choice, to name a few. So the discrepancy in total average income lends itself to choice as opposed to discrimination based on sex. You can easily look to The Wall Street Journal, Washington Examiner, Time and CBS News for such evidence.
“Rape culture” statistics are not even close to being accurate.
The statistic that one in five women will be sexually assaulted in college is absurd and a flat out lie. This statistic was derived from shoddy numbers, a minuscule sample (consisting of just two universities) and suspect classifications of “rape” (dunk sex and sex that was later regretted were all lumped in as "rape"). The Washington Post, US News and the Washington Examiner have all debunked the statistic which is driving the false narrative.
Much anecdotal evidence points to the same conclusion too; “mattress girl” and theDuke Lacrosse rape case are both prime examples of the fake “rape culture.”
Conservatives are not against a woman’s “reproductive health”; they are against abortion.
There is zero being done on the right to “attack” a woman’s “reproductive health"—but we all know that “reproductive health” is code for abortion. So in that sense, yes, conservatives don’t want you to kill your baby (how evil). Again, being pro-life and wanting to protect innocent babies—which roughly of which half happen to be female—does not equate to Republicans waging a wage on women; that is a delusional connection.
Women actually get preferential treatment.
Women are constantly receiving special treatment in the workforce, particularly when it comes to standards. Take for instance physical testing for the police force or the fire department; these institutions are mandated to have lower standards for women as a form of affirmative action. As the NY Post has previously reported, the FDNY dropped their physical testing all together last December in order to increase their female representation on the force.
Again, Ted Cruz is correct. There is no “war on women;" this is merely a scare-tactic used by the left to generate a base of voters since facts scarcely backup their proposed policies.
Here is the video of Cruz’s remarks at the Town Hall event and a partial transcript:
"Hillary Clinton embraces abortion on demand in all circumstances up until the moment of birth. Partial-birth abortion with taxpayer funding, with no notification for parents in any circumstances -- 91% of Americans say that's nuts," said Cruz. "So what do they do, they try to shift it. The war on women wasn't that, it was contraceptives. Now listen, I have been a conservative my entire life. I have never met anybody, any conservative who wants to ban contraceptives."
“When the war on women came up, Republicans would curl up in a ball and say ‘Don’t hurt me,'" said the senator. "This is a made up, nonsense example.”
“You’re Hillary Clinton, and you’re trying to think ‘How do I run?’Well you can’t run on the economy because we have the lowest percentage of Americans working than any year since 1977. You can’t run on Obamacare, because millions of people have lost their jobs, lost their healthcare, lost their doctor, seen their premiums skyrocket. You certainly can’t run on foreign policy because every county you’ve touched as secretary of state is a disaster. So what o you do? You go ‘Ah, ha! The condom police! I'm gonna make up a completely made up threat and try to scare a bunch of folks into thinking someone's going to steal their birth control.'"
http://www.dailywire.com/news/1527/cruz-says-theres-no-war-women-here-are-five-amanda-prestigiacomo?
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