House Republicans Target Contraception In Last-Minute Spending Bill

[ErikJ]

Source: HuffPost

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans included a so-called "conscience clause" in the government funding bill in a plan they approved early Sunday.

The House voted 231-192 on a bill that would delay much of the 2010 health care overhaul for a year. It would also repeal a tax on medical devices that helps finance the health care law.

The measure would allow employers and insurers to opt out of providing health care services that they find morally or religiously objectionable. The addition reignites the debate over a portion of the health care reform law that requires most insurers to cover women's preventative health care, including contraception. CNN reports that the provision would allow them to opt out of coverage for the next year.

A House Republican leadership aide confirmed to HuffPost that the provision was added into the one-year delay of Obamacare during a House Rules Committee meeting on Saturday evening.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America Executive Vice President Dawn Laguens called the move "desperate, misguided, and extreme" in a statement. "The country wants Congress to focus on jobs and the economy, not on pushing an extreme agenda against birth control," said Laguens.
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[onehandle]

1. Useless asses. nt

[Squinch]

2. Dickwads on parade.

[Trekologer]

3. The GOP clearly wants the government shutdown

Nothing else explains continuing to add more conditions that they know won't pass.

[RDANGELO]

4. They have lost thier minds. n/t

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Guns, God, Birthers, Deathers, Lifers, Deniers

It's just all one big narcissistic self-congratulatory Big Tent Event

I wish Jesus would show up and kick the moneygrubbers out of Congress

Grab a Yellow Magnetic Ribbon for the GOP!

[Snake Plissken]

9. If Jesus showed up one of two things would happen

1. He would be shot because he wasn't speaking English and looked like a Muslim

2. He would be deported back to Heaven because he wasn't speaking English and looked like a Muslim

[DhhD]

6. Taking away Womens' Rights has the State of Texas in an uproar after TX Senator Wendy Davis'

Filibuster in the Special Session July 2013.

Go Wendy! You will make a wonderful Governor.

[Berlum]

7. The also OCCULTLY added a Republicon DIAPER-Conscience clause

It specifies that if you are a Republicon and get busted for having extramarital diaper sex with hookers, all of your Republicon cronies must give you a standing ovation.

The Repubbies have been doing that all along, but now it's going to be an official Republicon 'value' statement expressing the very best Republicon's can muster in the realm of CONSCIENCE.

[Jester Messiah]

8. Correct response from Senate/WH: "That's cute. No." [nt]

[Snake Plissken]

10. If better known as the "Angry old White men pissed off about not being able to get it up" clause

... Losers

[blkmusclmachine]

11. The lunatic GOP won't be satisfied until every American woman is required to wear a burqa in public.

Because Jesus/religious freedom.