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I'm outraged!

Submitted by Patsy Keever on Tue, 02/28/2012 - 3:35pm

Are you as outraged by the Republicans’ radical assault on women as I am? Then let’s do something about it!

We’ve watched in disbelief as Republican extremists in Congress have attempted to undermine our hard-won rights, voting time after time to do away with measures that protect women’s health. There are so many of these fanatical attempts that I won’t try to list them all, but here are a few of the most disgusting:

  • Voted to eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood.
  • Voted to limit a woman’s access to reproductive health.
  • Voted to restrict a woman’s right to choose.
  • Voted against life-saving health care for women.

The final straw for me was Republican Darrell Issa’s recent Congressional hearing on contraception coverage for women in which none of the public testimony came from women. NONE!

We can't let them get away with this, and I strongly urge you to join me in sending Rep. Issa, Rep. Patrick McHenry (whose record on this issue is also abysmal) and the House Republican leadership a message:

We are outraged at your behavior and demand that you end your war on women now!


Click here to sign the petition!

Thank you for standing up for the rights of women in North Carolina and across our nation.

Update: I mistakenly stated that no women were allowed to testify at Rep. Issa’s hearing. As it turns out, only the first panel was woman-free, while the second panel included two women.

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I doubt if I can be as outraged as you are

Submitted by James on Tue, 02/28/2012 - 5:45pm.

but that's only because of my chromosomes. Thanks for this great post. I wish we could clone you a hundred times over.

Point of Clarification

Submitted by Logic Connection on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 10:23pm.

Ms. Keever:

Regarding your assertion above that Rep. Issa's recent hearing on contraception coverage for women included no public testimony from women, two points.

First, there were two women who testified as part of the second panel.

Second, the hearing was before the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee and the stated purpose of the hearing was religious freedom and separation of church and state. The hearing was not convened to discuss contraception, but rather the effect of the recent mandate by the Obama administration on Catholic and other religious institutions.

Video of the entire hearing can be found at the House Oversight website, oversight.house.gov. Chairman Issa also included video testimony from the female college student who was excluded from appearing before the committee due to the irrelevance of her testimony. A link to the Oversight website is below.

http://oversight.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=...

I am not attempting to stifle your outrage, but I did feel it necessary to correct your statement so others wouldn't become equally outraged based on misleading evidence.

Oh, you are so right. They

Submitted by Bridget (not verified) on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 10:05am.

Oh, you are so right. They did have TWO women representing but ONE side, for ALL 157 million of women in the United States. And therefor I a equally as outraged as Patsy, and cannot wait for her voice to be representing me in DC. They handpicked women, both who had the same view as the panel. How slick.

"The second panel indeed has the two aforementioned women, though I will note both are testifying against the administration’s contraception policy. Also, Dr. Champion is the only one of now eleven witnesses who has any public health experience."
http://www.thenation.com/blog/166311/republican-hearing-contraception-no...

It might be easier to believe

Submitted by Andy on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 8:48pm.

It might be easier to believe that Republicans raised this as a "Constitutional issue of church and state" rather than as a direct assault on women's rights to contraception and abortion (and other medical care) IF they hadn't spent the past year and a half doing their best nationally and in all the states they control to defund Planned Parenthood and impose ever tighter abortion restrictions.

This is a matter for outrage not just by women but by anyone capable of rational thought. I for one am not ready or willing to return to the 19th century, no matter how determined Roy Blunt, Darrell Issa, and Rick Santorum are to drag us there.