The head of the Democratic National Committee accused Republicans of trying to "redefine rape," a charge that highlights the party’s ongoing attempts to paint Republicans as misogynists.
CNS reports on Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s remarks, which were made during a conference call yesterday:
"I think the agenda of the Republican Party and of Mitt Romney has clearly been—and can be interpreted as—an attack on the issues that matter to women," Wasserman-Schultz said during a conference call.
"From the very beginning of this Congress," she said, "the first priorities in the first bills the Republicans introduced repealing the Affordable Care Act which would dramatically impact women in a negative way [by] making sure that insurance companies could drop us or deny us coverage for preexisting conditions, making sure that we could once again be charged more simply because of our gender for insurance coverage, making sure that we would redefine rape as only being forcible rape—that was H.R. 3."
Wasserman-Schultz was referring to the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, which sought to make the ban on federal funding of abortions permanent, removing the need to pass the Hyde Amendment every year.
