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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: 38172
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.
There's no substantive health benefits to not having babies. Old maids don't live longer than mothers.
For some women, like my friend with a heart defect, or another with diabetes, pregnancy is life threatening.
Advise them to keep their legs together.
Tell me, how does that work out in a marriage?
So it that your justification for not wanting to do the right thng????
When the Pharisees confronted Jesus for healing a man on the sabbath, "...he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath". The Catholic church has taken positions so extreme in the matter of sex that even its individual priests can't live up to them. The result is women and children deeply hurt while the holy church covered up its sin and lied to avoid looking bad, oe using its treasure to compensate its victims. Doing the right thing - what a laugh! The Church would rather see a woman dead than using contraception. Not only is a woman having an abortion guilty of murder, but also a woman who prevents conception is guilty of the murder of a baby never conceived according to the church. He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant--not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
I wasn't referring to the church, I was referring to using the excuse of being married as to why some women have sex when they shouldn't.... like your friend.. If those people who attend the Catholic church want to practice that then all I can say is they've made their bed and they can sleep in it.... As far as I'm concerned they should use some common sense before blindly following what others tell them they should be doing.... But then again not all people have common sense.... hence the number of abortions performed in this country.....
If Catholic men and women choose to follow the dictates of an old man living in the Vatican, that's their business. What I object to is the Catholic church entering politics, abusing their tax free status, and trying to force their convoluted morality on the rest of us.
Why are you afraid of the Catholic Church????? (Or any church for that matter).... What can they really do to harm you???? Convince people to "HAVE" morals and family values!!!!! You should be way more afraid of the people you vote for, they're the dangerous ones..... They're proving to be what is destroying this country not the church.... They have no morals or family values and they are forceably pushing their Bullchit immorality agenda onto the people of this country, whether they like it or not!!!! Freedom isn't free there is always a price to be paid for it, whether you like it or not.....
#61. To: CZ82 (#60)
She thinks killing babies is a virtue. It is the highest honor for a libtard.
Only as long as you don't copy the examples they set. Usually their vows of poverty, chastity and morality are the first to go. Most of the time they are only fit for showing an example of how to be a hypocrite. But I can see why conservatives love to brag that they are good church going folk, as it's just another in a long line of scams they indulge in.
You should be way more afraid of the people you vote for, they're the dangerous ones..... They're proving to be what is destroying this country not the church.... They have no morals or family values and they are forceably pushing their Bullchit immorality agenda onto the people of this country, whether they like it or not!!!! I'd say the Catholic church and politicians are on about the same moral footing. As for pushing, they want to micro-manage your sex life while holding the threat of eternal damnation over your head for disobedience. (If priests really believed that stuff do you think they'd engage in the criminal sexual behavior that has become synonymous with the Catholic church? Do you think the church hierarchy, up to and including the pope, would cover up the crimes committed and throw the victims under the proverbial bus?) The Catholic treats family values and morality as if they are pap for the masses, not an eternal truth. Politicians ain't got nothing on the Catholic church when it comes to "forceably pushing their Bullchit immorality agenda onto the people of this country, whether they like it or not!!!!".
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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!
#12. To: lucysmom, *Liberal Rehab Staff* (#6)
We're talking about contraception here, not abortion.
#18. To: hondo68 (#12)
There's no substantive health benefits to not having babies.
#24. To: lucysmom (#18)
For some women, like my friend with a heart defect, or another with diabetes, pregnancy is life threatening.
#28. To: hondo68 (#24)
Advise them to keep their legs together.
#43. To: lucysmom (#28)
Tell me, how does that work out in a marriage?
#50. To: CZ82 (#43)
So it that your justification for not wanting to do the right thng????
#55. To: lucysmom (#50)
Doing the right thing - what a laugh! The Church would rather see a woman dead than using contraception. Not only is a woman having an abortion guilty of murder, but also a woman who prevents conception is guilty of the murder of a baby never conceived according to the church.
#56. To: CZ82 (#55)
If those people who attend the Catholic church want to practice that then all I can say is they've made their bed and they can sleep in it.... As far as I'm concerned they should use some common sense before blindly following what others tell them they should be doing....
#60. To: lucysmom (#56)
What I object to is the Catholic church entering politics, abusing their tax free status, and trying to force their convoluted morality on the rest of us.
Replies to Comment # 60. trying to force their convoluted morality on the rest of us.
#64. To: CZ82 (#60)
Why are you afraid of the Catholic Church????? (Or any church for that matter).... What can they really do to harm you???? Convince people to "HAVE" morals and family values!!!!!
#65. To: CZ82 (#60)
Why are you afraid of the Catholic Church????? (Or any church for that matter).... What can they really do to harm you???? Convince people to "HAVE" morals and family values!!!!!
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