If they love the women in their lives, white men must stop ignoring the relentless Republican war on women because it is a war on their mothers, wives, daughters, and sisters, and girlfriends. Regardless of what you tell your conservative friends and conservative employers to stay in their good grace, white men should remind themselves of these 12 facts before they cast their votes in any election.
1. The fact that you are a white man and vote for conservative Republicans does not protect you nor your white mother, white wife, white daughter, white sister, and white girlfriend from the insane policies that manifest the Republican war on women.
2. Conservative Republicans are opposed to abortion for any reason. If your mother, wife, daughter, sister, or girlfriend becomes pregnant by rape, they demand that she must carry the fetus to full term and give birth.
3. The white man who raped your mother, wife daughter, sister, or girlfriend may be required to pay child support and will have parental rights and visitation privileges when the child is born, whether the woman agrees to it or not.
4. Conservative Republicans in states like Ohio and Wisconsin have passed Mandatory Ultrasound bills tantamount to vaginal rape. These bills require the state to insert a 10" metal rod into the vagina of your mother, wife, daughter, sister, or girlfriend for no medical reason whether she likes it or not.
5. Mississippi Republicans have proposed that if your wife and the other women in your life smokes, drinks alcohol, uses drugs or exercise against her doctor's orders and has a miscarriage or has a stillbirth, she should be prosecuted for illegally terminating an unwanted pregnancy.
6. Because conservative Republicans deny the need for abortions for any reason, your 15 year old and your 12 year old daughter or sister will have to drop out of school to have her rapist's baby. And when the baby is born, the rapist will have 18 years of parental visitation rights. And their is nothing she can do to stop it, except go to jail if she refuses.
7. Conservatives support the voices of sexism, division, and Hate Radio like Rush Limbaugh one of whose mantra is that educated white women are a problem. "What is it about these young, single, white women. Over educated doesn't mean intelligent." ~Rush Limbaugh, insulting educated white women, March 6, 2012.
Does that mean your white daughter should not graduate high school and go to a college or a university and learn about science other than what they read in The bible?
8. Signaling their disdain for even protecting white women from violence, the Majority of House Republicans voted against the Violence Against Women Act.
9. Under the banner of being pro-life, Republicans would close down Planned Parenthood, thereby denying millions of white women the right to free PAP Test for Cancer Screening and Cancer Prevention.
10. In America, as a conservative leaning white man, you have the right to ignore these facts and vote for conservatives republicans and Teaparty Republicans running for local, state and national office who will continue the Republican war on women and women's rights. But you do so at the risk of the women you claim you love. But maybe you don't. Some people suggest that conservative men are known hypocrites and known liars. So much of what they claim isn't true.
11. If you believe these repressive policies are designed for non-white Americans and don't apply to "law-abiding-white-Americans, you are sadly mistaken. Just because you believe that none of these things will ever happen to you or to a woman you love or care about, when it does happen, your anger, your disgust, your outrage, and your regret will be much too late.
12. Your biggest regret, however, will be that you didn't do enough to vote these sexist right wing conservative republican bullies and their war on women out of office when you had a chance to do it.