. . UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY : INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM INDUSTRY : POLITICS : WAR ON WOMEN:GOP 'War On Women' Loses Momentum In The States . . 'War On Women' Loses Momentum In The States Posted: 03/29/2012 2:30 pm Huffington Posthttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/29/ anti-abortion-legislators_n_1388307.html
. A shorter URL for the above link: . http://tinyurl.com/77u9dy7 . .At this time last year, GOP-controlled state legislatures across the U.S. were passing a record number of laws restricting women's access to reproductive health care. Now in the spring of 2012, as those same lawmakers attempt to impose new, harsher restrictions, they're meeting with a great deal more resistance from women.
.In the past two weeks, four conservative state legislatures -- in Tennessee, Idaho, Pennsylvania and Arizona -- have backed off of controversial anti-abortion or anti-contraception bills after facing significant public backlash over the proposals. Women who previously weren't as politically active in those states have come out of the woodwork to protest, women lawmakers have introduced "message amendments" that target men's health, and legislators are personally hearing from angry women through Facebook posts, emails and phone calls to a noticeably higher degree than previous years.
."I would say there's some cautious optimism," said Elizabeth Nash, an expert on state policy for the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health policy research organization. "I do think the attention that has been paid to all of these restrictions is beginning to have an impact."
.Tennessee State Rep. Matthew Hill (R) recently removed provisions from a bill he introduced that would have required the state to publish the names of abortion doctors and detailed information about women who have had abortions. After the national media focused attention on the bill and raised concerns that it could promote anti-abortion violence against doctors and women, Hill said he started to feel an alarming amount of pressure to drop the bill.
."[Opponents'] categorization of me as a terrorist, murderer or more has been used by their leftist friends to engender hatred and incite the threat of violence against me," Hill told the Legislative Health and Human Service Committee on Wednesday.
.But Jeff Teague, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Middle and East Tennessee, says the backlash against Hill's bill reflects a growing anger and increased political participation among women in Tennessee who are tired of seeing legislators target their reproductive rights. Many women were upset when state lawmakers voted to defund Planned Parenthood in May 2011, Teague said, but that firestorm didn't compare to the level of outrage that's happening now.
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