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WhoIsNumberNone

(7,875 posts)
Tue Jul 28, 2015, 10:09 PM Jul 2015

TYT: Libertarian Leader In Favor Of Stripping Away Women's Rights



Cenk Uygur (host of The Young Turks) breaks down Senator Rand Paul's recent attack on Planned Parenthood. Cenk discusses how ironic it is that a self described Libertarian would be so aggressively fighting against women's rights. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

Read more from Reuters here: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/27/us-usa-plannedparenthood-randpaul-idUSKCN0Q00IJ20150727
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TYT: Libertarian Leader In Favor Of Stripping Away Women's Rights (Original Post) WhoIsNumberNone Jul 2015 OP
He's only Libertarian when it suits his purpose. Phony from head to bjobotts Jul 2015 #1
Back in my reproductive days, I was fortunate enough to have good health insurance maddiemom Jul 2015 #2

maddiemom

(5,106 posts)
2. Back in my reproductive days, I was fortunate enough to have good health insurance
Wed Jul 29, 2015, 08:54 AM
Jul 2015

plans through my own job or my husband's. It's hell to get old, but I'm pretty sure, from the late sixties through eighties, birth control pills were not covered and I paid for them myself. Now single and on Social Security, I was surprised to learn that Medicare is deducted from SS, something most people I know never realize beforehand. Depending on retirement income, Medicaid may make up the difference. Planned Parenthood is now my "go to" for internal examinations and mammograms, still necessary, though less often for the former, throughout a woman's life. My forty year old daughter, a college graduate and employed, but without health insurance, has long depended on local Planned Parenthood outlets for exams and, when in (two) serious relationships, birth control. She doesn't want children herself, and so prevention through Planned Parenthood is exactly the point. The ignorance toward an organization beneficial to so many women is insane.

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