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Title: Democratic Women Boycott House Contraception Hearing After Republicans Prevent Women From Testifying
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http://thinkprogress.org
URL Source: http://thinkprogress.org/health/201 ... venting-women-from-testifying/
Published: Feb 16, 2012
Author: Igor Volsky
Post Date: 2012-02-16 15:42:35 by Ferret Mike
Keywords: None
Views: 38062
Comments: 90
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.” And so Cummings, along with the Democratic women on the panel, took their request to the hearing room, demanding that Issa consider the testimony of a female college student. But the California congressman insisted that the hearing should focus on the rules’ alleged infringement on “religious liberty,” not contraception coverage, and denied the request. Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) walked out of the hearing in protest of his decision, citing frustration over the fact that the first panel of witnesses consisted only of male religious leaders against the rule. Holmes Norton said she will not return, calling Issa’s chairmanship an “autocratic regime.” Watch a compilation of the heated exchange: ky on Feb 16, 2012 at 10:52 am 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.” And so Cummings, along with the Democratic women on the panel, took their request to the hearing room, demanding that Issa consider the testimony of a female college student. But the California congressman insisted that the hearing should focus on the rules’ alleged infringement on “religious liberty,” not contraception coverage, and denied the request. Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) walked out of the hearing in protest of his decision, citing frustration over the fact that the first panel of witnesses consisted only of male religious leaders against the rule. Holmes Norton said she will not return, calling Issa’s chairmanship an “autocratic regime.” Watch a compilation of the heated exchange: A picture of the witness table: Issa also dismissed the Democrats’ woman witness as a “college student’ who does not “have the appropriate credentials” to testify before his committee.
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#4. To: Ferret Mike, *Extended Clip Progressives* (#0)
Killing babies is "preventative health care"? I don't think so! What could be more unhealthy than dead?
We're talking about contraception here, not abortion.
Obama favors Catholics funding abortions.
Off topic - read the thread title.
Off topic - read the thread title. the Administration’s actions as they relate to freedom of religion and conscience,
I guess you need a reminder: Democratic Women Boycott House Contraception Hearing After Republicans Prevent Women From Testifying
I guess you need a reminder: Did you even read your own article? "the Administration’s actions as they relate to freedom of religion and conscience," is from your own article. The article is more then the title.
#22. To: A K A Stone (#19)
Wrong again. It's not my article is it.
LOL! You can't even read the header to see who posted this. No wonder you can't hear people's positions on issues. I am for contraceptive use precisely because abortion is not a good way to deal with pregnancy. Women and men need to use the appropriate means to prevent pregnancy if they do not wish to have kids at a specific period in their lives or ever. If a woman is pregnant and that pregnancy does not endanger her life, she should go to term and either keep the child, or give it up for adoption. If she was raped, she should have the right to abort if it endangers her mental health to deal with the child that would come from this act of extreme violence commited against her. Also, it is just as appropriate for the man to have a vasectomy as it is for her to have her tubes tied if no children are desired. That is not how you view things, but stop being an asshole and telling me what my position on abortion is. I view you as an extremist of the variety that keeps resolution of this issue impossible because you don't know how to work out a balanced approach to the issue that arrives at a resolution everyone can live with. I also have seen nothing in your position that takes the woman's perspective into consideration, just a fervent desire for you to legislate things so the woman has no say in the matter, and must allow males complete control of their rights and future. As for bringing my position of the right for all to marry or have the sort of sexual relationship they wish with consenting adults into the discussion on this issue; that is just indicative of how malicious and hatefully you are in desiring to control everyone around you with your extremist, intolerant and hateful attitudes. You need to grow up and realize people have rights, and they are not the only ones who need to compromise in crafting solutions to social issues; you must too.
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#6. To: hondo68, Ferret Mike, A K A Stone (#4)
Killing babies is "preventative health care"? I don't think so!
#7. To: lucysmom (#6)
#9. To: A K A Stone (#7)
Obama favors Catholics funding abortions.
#11. To: lucysmom (#9)
Obama favors Catholics funding abortions.
#16. To: A K A Stone (#11)
the Administration’s actions as they relate to freedom of religion and conscience,
#19. To: lucysmom (#16)
the Administration’s actions as they relate to freedom of religion and conscience,
Replies to Comment # 19. Did you even read your own article?
#52. To: A K A Stone (#19)
"Did you even read your own article?"
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