This is not from the Onion, either. The group, Independent Women’s Forum, will be awarding the accolade to one of the most extreme anti-feminist politician on the face of the Earth — Mike Pence. Okay, some further info on this group is that one board member is Kellyanne Conway, so you might now have a better idea of how truly feminist the Independent Women’s Forum actually is.
Pence led the GOP’s efforts to destroy Planned Parenthood with six pieces of legislation in just six years. He went so far as to threaten to shut down the government if Planned Parenthood continued to be funded. He not only cut needle exchange programs to provide clean needles to addicts, he then worked to shut down clinics where people could get free HIV/AIDS testing. The result was an HIV outbreak, which he ignored for two months before being forced to act.
His fetus funeral law really made him stand out in anti-choice circles.
The sweeping abortion bill that Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed into law in March gained national attention for prohibiting women from electing to have an abortion due to the race, gender, or disability of the fetus. But the bill contained another unusual provision: It required that aborted fetuses receive what amounts to a funeral.
Pence... signed the law that made Indiana the second state ever, after North Dakota, to pass a ban on abortions carried out for certain reasons. The law also imposed liability for wrongful death on doctors that perform an abortion motivated by one of the prohibited reasons. And, as Mother Jones reported in March, the law also required that health care facilities inter or cremate the remains of an aborted fetus, and prohibited fetal tissue donation.
Oh, he’s been working for women, alright. Working to take away all reproductive rights in every creative way his sadistic mind dreams up. Thank you, Kellyanne.