U.S. House Republicans Propose Rolling Back Access To Birth Control To Avert Government Shutdown

[Tx4obama]

House Republicans Propose Rolling Back Access To Birth Control To Avert Government Shutdown

In order to avert a government shutdown later this month, Congress and the Obama administration must negotiate a continuing resolution to maintain federal funding — and a group of House Republicans is suggesting that deal should also roll back Obamacare’s effort to expand women’s access to affordable contraception.

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http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/03/05/1675731/house-republicans-birth-control-shutdown/

The War on Women continues...

[Rider3]

1. Oh, yeah...

That'll have great repercussions.

[PDJane]

2. I swear to you, it leaves me absolutely gobsmacked.

These folks are too stupid to be out without a keeper, honestly. Maybe a leash.

[shawn703]

3. Didn't they learn from Texas

They already tried something like this, and figured out that the cost to the taxpayer would be so much more doing it their way.

[noiretextatique]

4. following the stupid Texas model, eh?

it worked so well in TX

[SharonAnn]

6. Molly Ivins used to say that Texas was the "national laboratory for bad government."

Guess it's still true.

[noiretextatique]

10. unfortunately, not just Texas

but Texas is a the top of the list.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. Isn't that just an insurance mandate?

Are we actually even paying for that?

[LiberalFighter]

7. I wish Obama would tell them that tax exemption for churches needs to be abolished.

[surrealAmerican]

8. They must know that this will cost much more than it will "save".

Birth control is a small investment that brings big savings in medical costs.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

9. Everyone knows that the cause of all our fiscal ills:

.................. are women's uteruseseses, or is that uteri - no matter, they must be dealt with or we'll go bankrupt!

[starroute]

11. Goes to show their real motivation is cruelty

They don't really care about deficits or balancing the budget. They just see it as an excuse to hurt people -- and to make them feel helpless and humiliated.

Bunch of sadists.

[Bake]

12. I don't get the whole "war on contraception" thing.

I mean, it's not like they're all Catholics or anything. I can understand the opposition to abortion (not that I agree, I'm just saying I can understand their opposition), but CONTRACEPTION???? WTF??? That's totally out of left field.

I thought that battle was over in the 60s; hell, Loretta Lynn even wrote and recorded a song about it ("The Pill&quot .

Can anyone 'splain this to me?

Bake

[lindysalsagal]

13. Women's equality rests largely in their ability to control their childrearing responsibilties.

If you want to put women back in their second-class-citizen status of 100 years ago, the quickest way is to keep them at home surrounded by kids with little ability to become educated, trained, experienced or employable.

This is about totally insecure men who are threatened by strong women: If women can control their own family responsibilities, how will men keep them under men's control? These losers want women and children totally dependent on them for their basic survival needs.

Because of child-rearing, women work fewer years in lesser jobs, make less money, have less job security, remain below management/administration, and cannot even retire alone. This keeps men the bread-winners, which gives these losers a way to feel manly.

The Subservient Woman is their goal.

[Bake]

14. Men cutting off their noses to spite their faces, apparently

I see your point, and it makes as much sense as anything else I can imagine to try to explain the phenomenon. What I don't get is that the men, in their little scenario, have to pay for all those kids, so there's less money per child. I mean, have they never heard of family planning? Everybody knows that white men got no rhythm ...

Bake