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Related: About this forumWomen Senators: GOP's Birth Control Amendment 'Defies Logic'
Women Senators: GOP's Birth Control Amendment 'Defies Logic'
WASHINGTON -- Democratic female senators are stunned the government is on the verge of shutting down and Republicans are once again using the crisis to target birth control and preventative care for women, a group of them said on Monday.
Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) told reporters that the Senate will unequivocally reject a provision sent to them by House Republicans this weekend that would allow employers to deny women birth control coverage for moral reasons.
"In the dead of night, while most of us were sleeping, they snuck in a provision one more time that specifically targets women of this country," Hirono said. "It's just amazing. We have laws that prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, and yet they put in a provision that just targets women. It truly defies logic."
The "conscience clause," which would also allow employers to opt out of covering screenings for cervical cancer, pregnancy-related diabetes and sexually transmitted infections, was added into the House spending bill on Saturday. The provision is similar to Sen. Roy Blunt's (R-Mo.) controversial proposal in 2011, which the Senate rejected.
"Here's the thing," Boxer told reporters, "Republicans already lost a vote on this very provision in the U.S. Senate, and they lost an election in part because the voters rejected their war on women, but still the war on women continues. They cannot seem to stop themselves, so we will stop them."
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Full article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/30/republicans-birth-control-amendment_n_4017597.html
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Women Senators: GOP's Birth Control Amendment 'Defies Logic' (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Sep 2013
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blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)1. Burqas for everyone!
CTyankee
(63,903 posts)2. Keep going, rethugs! You're gonna stir up a hornet's nest of not just women, but men, too!
Men want contraception too. Men want to be able to have family planning options available. Only the strangest subset of people in this country want to keep contraception difficult to obtain and use.