War on women is a slogan in United States politics used to describe certain Republican Party policies and legislation as a wide-scale effort to restrict women's rights , especially reproductive rights. While used in other contexts, and prior to , [17] [18] it became a common slogan in American political discourse after the congressional elections. The concept again gained attention in the U. The phrase and the concept have been criticized by Republicans and some pro-life Democrats. In , radical feminist Andrea Dworkin [38] wrote in a book introduction about "war on women" [39] and, in , she collected that and other writings in Life and Death , for which the subtitle was Unapologetic Writings on the Continuing War Against Women.