Collaborators

Seems a lot of people in the GOP & on the conservative airwaves have never heard of the term "collaborator" - they seem unaware of the distain felt through the millennia by ordinary folk toward people who work with the enemy without being one of them.  


That's how a lot of everyday Americans feel about a Republican Party that turns all wishy-washy when it comes to GOP-controlled state governments that limit, even eliminate health care rights women thought had been won over a generation ago.  


Forget the silence by the presumptive GOP candidate over states requiring women to undergo humiliating, painful & costly procedures before getting an abortion.  


Forget that he turns a blind eye to a state that pegs the start of a pregnancy at the last day of a woman's most recent menstrual period.  


That he supports personhood state legislation that would illegalize hormonal birth control.  


That he's stated - for the record - that he'd push as president to defund Planned Parenthood.  


What's most damning to me, what makes him & the rest of his GOP cohorts guilty of collaborating in what's clearly a war on existing women's rights, is the utter lack of rebuke to Arizona on a law awaiting its governor's signature, a law that makes it perfectly okey-dokey for an ob/gyn to intentionally withhold information from a patient any information that might indicate the pregnancy is less than perfect, info that might make the patient consider terminating a pregnancy.  The ob/gyn can lie away, knowing the state protects him or her from any resulting law suits.  


Mr. Romney et al - silence infers consent.  Your silence & the silence from the party's leaders & the multitude of paid pundits across the airwaves is what tars the entire GOP with the brush of those who are clearly, actively, with complete sense of righteousness wage war against the hard-won rights of women in America.