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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDemocrats Hold Hearing on Contraceptives & Women's Health(Watch LIVE)
A hearing on women's health, organized by the House Democratic Steering & Policy Cmte., has lead to a dispute over control of the House recording studio.
Ms. Sandra Fluke, a third-year law student at Georgetown University, is the only witness scheduled. Democrats wanted her to testify at last week's hearing on the administration's conceptives policy, but Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), House Oversight Committee Chair, blocked her appearance. Instead, five clergymen -- and no women -- testified.
When requests to televise today's hearing were turned down by the House recording studio, aides to Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) claimed that Republicans on the Committee on House Administration wanted to "silence" the issue of women's health. A spokeswoman for the committee denied the charge, pointing out that the committee was not involved in the studio decision.
Democrats complain that changes to the House broadcast rules should have permitted the broadcast. Republicans, on the other hand, say that the recording studio is only following established procedures.
http://www.c-span.org/Events/Democrats-Hold-Hearing-on-Contraceptives-Womens-Health/10737428508-1/
Thanks you Democrats!
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Democrats Hold Hearing on Contraceptives & Women's Health(Watch LIVE) (Original Post)
SunsetDreams
Feb 2012
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SunsetDreams
(8,571 posts)1. This is awesome!
ProSense
(116,464 posts)2. Excellent.
I can't believe Republicans blocked this student's testimony and are doubling down on their men-only debate.
SunsetDreams
(8,571 posts)3. "Clearly a woman should always have a seat at the table
particularly when talking about contraceptive issues for women's health"
Nancy Pelosi
Thank you and a not so subtle body slam against the GOP Hearing with all Men.
SunsetDreams
(8,571 posts)4. "If this was a hearing on Prostrate Cancer, and there
was a line of women, clearly men would not have stuck around...and would have been saying give me a break"
Rep Elijah Cummings referring to his thoughts when he sat in on GOP Contraception hearing.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)5. I'm glad
I caught part of that hearing. Thanks for posting.
Rep. Holmes Norton Puts Reproductive Care In Context In Hearing
Part of Rep. Holmes Norton's (D-DC) questioning during the contraception hearing with Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke placed contraception coverage in a larger context of women's access to reproductive care. We're accustomed to the fact that women live longer today, Norton said. I wonder if people realize that's a 20th century phenomenon. If you visit the graveyards from the past, women died earlier, many from child birth and it's complications.
Norton went on to discuss her own experience of having two children in the 1970s. My family paid almost all the cost of bearing those two children in a hospital. As recently as the 1970s, insurance companies paid a fraction of the cost of a normal childbirth in a hospital.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/rep-holmes-norton-puts-reproductive-care-in-context
Part of Rep. Holmes Norton's (D-DC) questioning during the contraception hearing with Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke placed contraception coverage in a larger context of women's access to reproductive care. We're accustomed to the fact that women live longer today, Norton said. I wonder if people realize that's a 20th century phenomenon. If you visit the graveyards from the past, women died earlier, many from child birth and it's complications.
Norton went on to discuss her own experience of having two children in the 1970s. My family paid almost all the cost of bearing those two children in a hospital. As recently as the 1970s, insurance companies paid a fraction of the cost of a normal childbirth in a hospital.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/rep-holmes-norton-puts-reproductive-care-in-context