GOP effort to recruit women legislators backfires

Oh, the slings and arrows of being the majority. Yesterday, all the fine ladies the GOP recruited to demonstrate the GOP is not at war with women went to war against House Speaker John Boehner and his fellow House misogynists. House GOP gals Jackie Walorski (IN) and Kristi Noem (SD) said 'NYET' to Boehner passing the GOP's signature anti-abortion legislation prohibiting abortions after 20 weeks. The bill did provide a bit of wiggle room for women impregnated by their rapist, but only if they promptly reported their rape to police. Waloski and Noem, unlike the anti-female Boehner Boys, understand that roughly two-thirds of such rapes are not reported, meaning roughly two-thirds of such unwanted pregnancies would be required to come to term, inflicting endless trauma on already traumatized rape victims. This utter waste of lawmakers time was moot from the start. Any passage of legislation limiting women's reproductive health has virtually no chance of Senate passage or surviving a wise presidential veto.

Speaker Boehner must rue the day he signed on to bringing those pesky ladies into the legislative process.