How the GOP went back to the 1950s in one day

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Very neatly, and on three separate fronts, conservatives in America turned the clock back to the 1950s with their rhetoric about women’s rights Thursday, according to women in politics on both sides of the aisle. This could be a big problem for the GOP when the calendar reaches November.

Let’s take a look at Thursday, February 16, 2012, the day Washington fell into a time-warp.

• On Capitol Hill, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) held hearings on contraception and religious freedom that produced the now-famous picture of a table full of men called to weigh in on access to contraceptives. Democrats wanted a woman — a Georgetown law student with a friend who lost an ovary because the university doesn’t cover birth control — to say her piece at the hearing, but Issa wouldn’t let her on the panel. He said she wasn’t “appropriate or qualified” to discuss the topic at hand.

I'm not a personal fan of either party, but I'm hoping to hell all of this crap that's coming from the Republican party is going to cost them in November. I don't want anyone in power that thinks this way about women. If I was still a republician, I would be embarrassed to be a part of that party and I would cease my support of it. Luckily for me, I did that way before this happened.

What's everyone's thoughts about this? If you're not from the US, do you have a party like this? Are they in power?

Crossed posted from we_r_the_middle

Dangerous Anti-birth control efforts Pending

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From NOW:
Send a message to your Congress members today, urging them to vote down any effort to restrict contraceptive coverage in health care.

Background:
Continuing Attacks on Birth Control - The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and other extremists are expanding their campaign against women's reproductive rights by going all out to restrict birth control. They are not content with the Obama administration's extraordinary accommodations to religiously affiliated organizations -- namely, churches have carte blanche to keep birth control out of their health plans, while for other religious employers the cost of birth control coverage is absorbed entirely by the insurer. Now the bishops and their allies in Congress want all employers to be able to strip birth control from their health plans. That this is happening in a volatile election year is no accident.

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This information needs to be conveyed to your senators in order to defeat these attacks on birth control.