One attack after another....

It's been one attack after another. Relentless. Reprehensible. Repugnant.

By any adjective, the actions of the newly-elected Congressional representatives belie the reasons for which they stated they were running for office. Instead of fulfilling campaign promises to focus on jobs and the economy, there appears to be a lottery for the most outrageous and vicious plan to deny basic health care services, birth control and abortion services for the women of this county.

If these women get their services from such places as free clinics or Planned Parenthood, they are typically among the poorest. Preventing them from accessing birth control will keep them poor. That means their children will be poor. Children who grow up in poor families don't have the opportunities that children in better financed families have. Do the math.

In an economy like ours is now, making it difficult for women to access birth control is truly one of the most unjustifiable positions anyone can take. In addition to the affront against women making decisions about their own health care, it borders on economic terrorism. Providing birth control reduces the need for abortions. Providing basic, preventive health services are less expensive than restorative health services. Do the math.

And the idea of redefining rape to make it more difficult to get an abortion is also insane. Rape is always forcible. Why should women have to put themselves near death's doorstep to prove that they were raped?

And allowing hospitals to deny women a life-saving abortion? And preventing women from purchasing insurance that covers abortions even when they use their own money?

What next? How about something on jobs and the economy? Something that doesn't include keeping women and children in poverty. Something that won't drive this country into a poverty-ridden, third world country.