The spotlight this week on the Rethuglican war on women focuses on Arizona and its questionably sane Governor, Jan "I See Headless Bodies in the Desert!" Brewer. The Romney-endorsing, female Quisling Brewer just signed a Rethuglican bill to cut Planned Parenthood access to taxpayer funding that's funneled through the state. Planned Parenthood, which is contemplating a legal challenge, says this will affect preventive health care and family planning services for as many as 20,000 women in Arizona. It's instructive to note that Rethuglican Governors and Rethuglican-controlled state legislatures have been leading the charge back to the past on issues of women's health (wave your magic wand, Virginia!), which is just one reason why progressives need to do better in state and local elections (or as Charles Pierce puts it, "...electing the unqualified and the half-bright simply because they say the things that you also hear on your radio for 12 hours a day is not a recipe for moving the country forward.")
UPDATE: Which, of course, is not to say the Rethugs aren't trying to push back time on the national level. Misogynist assholes.
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