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prochoice_maryland2012-02-17 12:08 pm
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How the GOP went back to the 1950s in one day
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?
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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?
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