Democratic Women Boycott House Contraception Hearing After Republicans Prevent Women From Testifying

[boston bean]

This morning, Democrats tore into House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) for preventing women from testifying before a hearing examining the Obama administration’s new regulation requiring employers and insurers to provide contraception coverage to their employees. Republicans oppose the administration’s rule and have sponsored legislation that would allow employers to limit the availability of birth control to women.

Ranking committee member Elijah Cummings (D-MD) had asked Issa to include a female witness at the hearing, but the Chairman refused, arguing that “As the hearing is not about reproductive rights and contraception but instead about the Administration’s actions as they relate to freedom of religion and conscience, he believes that Ms. Fluke is not an appropriate witness.”

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/02/16/426850/democratic-women-boycott-issas-contraception-hearing-for-preventing-women-from-testifying/

Watch:

[tabatha]

1. Prevent women from testifying?

Are they now the Taliban?

[boston bean]

2. It's a full frontal assault we are seeing.

Some are damned determined to bring us back to the 50's.

[tabatha]

6. Al Sharpton relayed what someone said

that it is equivalent to talking about a group of mice and inviting a board of cats to make the decision.

[RC]

3. Good. Maybe Issa's action have stirred up enough anger to put an end to

the discrimination against women.
This is first and foremost a Civil Rights issue, no different in reality that discrimination against the Gay and Lesbian culture, people of color or any other group with less than full Constitutional Rights, because of bad law.
In fact it is the same people and institutions behind all the enforced discrimination.

[demmiblue]

4. K&R

[WCGreen]

5. I am always amazed at the brazen behavior of the republicans....

They have no shame or sense of responsibility to the truth.

[Louisiana1976]

7. K&R