Paul Ryan Wants To Use Debt Ceiling To Deny Women Access To Birth Control
Source: Think Progress
Since negotiations to avert a national default on the debt have shifted from the House to the Senate, Republicans in the lower chamber are still hoping to use the talks as leverage to limit womens access to contraception.
According to the Washington Post, in a private meeting with House Republicans Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) who earlier this weak floated a compromise that would raise the debt ceiling in exchange for cuts to entitlement programs railed against emerging Senate proposals and argued that the House could not accept either a debt-limit bill or a government-funding measure that would delay the next fight until the new year:
According to two Republicans familiar with the exchange, Ryan argued that the House would need those deadlines as leverage for delaying the health-care laws individual mandate and adding a conscience clause allowing employers and insurers to opt out of birth-control coverage if they find it objectionable on moral or religious grounds and mentioned tax and entitlement goals Ryan had focused on in a recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.
Ryans speech appeared only to further rile up the conservative wing of the GOP conference, which has been agitating the shutdown strategy to try to tear apart the health-care law.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/10/13/2775061/paul-ryan-debt-ceiling-leverage-deny-women-access-birth-control/
Using the debt-limit bill or a government-funding measure as leverage for delaying the health-care laws individual mandate and adding a conscience clause"? And who is moving the goal posts? More details can be found here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/boehner-tells-house-gop-negotiations-have-ended/2013/10/12/fa0d3f42-334a-11e3-9c68-1cf643210300_story_2.html
elleng
(131,073 posts)TomCADem
(17,390 posts)Instead, an affluent Republican gets to make reproductive rights a chit in debt limit and re-opening the government.
melody
(12,365 posts)So he can't reproduce.
JimboBillyBubbaBob
(1,389 posts).....the razor blade.
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)it's a very dull and rusty razor.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)Buddha_of_Wisdom
(373 posts)With no antiseptic, no antibiotics, no anesthesia... sounds perfect!
Squinch
(50,993 posts)to the debt ceiling.
Seriously, they're all over the map. These guys have gone completely bonkers.
Raine1967
(11,589 posts)It's absolutely stunning. In all the years I've followed such things, I have never seen this.
bucolic_frolic
(43,257 posts)other than to use the cloak of Christianity
as a cover for cutthroat Ayn-Randian capitalism
and Social Darwinism Survival-of-the-Fittest
marble falls
(57,157 posts)Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)Funny that I have something in common with that hack.
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)Birds of a feather.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)gopiscrap
(23,763 posts)AAO
(3,300 posts)hue
(4,949 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,032 posts)displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)Bette Noir
(3,581 posts)If anyone knows of any pro-reproductive rights rallies in the Pacific Northwest that would benefit from a grey-haired lady on a mobility scooter, let me know.
We won these fights when I was in high school. How dare those bastards bring all that same stuff up again!
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)and lyin' Ryan is on the wrong side again! Too bad, loser!
Brigid
(17,621 posts)You have just confirmed a decision I made. Now I have no further doubts.
caseymoz
(5,763 posts)Something that brings them everything they've always wished for. Just take the country hostage and endanger the economy of the whole world.
Don't they know that they're showing the President that they are going to repeat this bullshit every time they want something they can't win through legislation?
Unfortunately, we don't have an election for another year, and the Tea Party's going to make it the worst year of every American's lives, and also make it so our lives never recover.
If I were the sane branch of the GOP, what I would get together with the Democrats and vote to expel all the Teabaggers in Congress, one by one.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Swede Atlanta
(3,596 posts)I think the government shutdown will continue for an unknown period of time.
I think the pukes will only agree to some form of extortion extension of the debt limit based on their insane ideas.
I think Obama is going to say No, No and Hell No to anything that does not look like and smell like a clean CR to open the government and non-binding conditions on raising the debt ceiling.
Obama is the adult but Bo-ner and his children aren't being disciplined. They want the whole thing to come crashing down.
What to do?
My financial guy knows end of tomorrow to sell all stocks and move me to cash positions. Same with my 401K. These fuckers that caused me to lose 40% of my holdings in 2008 will not do it again.
lastlib
(23,271 posts)I LOATHE "li'l Eddie (Munster)"!!
I am confident that his buddy Satan is keeping his seat in Hell warm for him.....!!
Blue Owl
(50,486 posts)n/t
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Guess he has been in hiding, up till now
retroarama
(1 post)In the retro world of Republicans, women still take a back seat when it comes to controlling their own bodies.Without any safety precautions its a dangerous ride indeed.Does it matter who's at the wheel...you betchum. Take a look http://wp.me/p2qifI-1JC
gopiscrap
(23,763 posts)Quantess
(27,630 posts)What a douche.
marshall
(6,665 posts)Is he trying to block that as well?
CBHagman
(16,987 posts)[url]http://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/endometri/conditioninfo/Pages/treatment.aspx[/url]
Wow, way to give Americans control of their own health care decisions!