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House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa R-CA held a hearing today about the Obama administration’s new regulation requiring employers and insurers to provide contraception coverage to their employees, but they prevented women from testifying on the issue. Democrats had invited Sandra Fluke, a third year law student at Georgetown University, a Jesuit school, but Issa prevented her from testifying. Fluke later posted her testimony on YouTube. In her testimony, Fluke describes the financial barriers for female law students at Georgetown who need contraception because the school does not offer birth control coverage in its student health insurance plans. Contraception can cost women up to $3,000 over the course of law school without the coverage, she said, which adds up to an entire summer’s salary for students on public interest scholarships. And 40 percent of women at Georgetown Law say they struggle financially because of the policy. “Just on Tuesday, a married female student told me she had to stop using contraception because she couldn’t afford it any longer,” Fluke wrote. For some women, the consequences of forgoing birth control can be severe: A friend of mine, for example, has polycystic ovarian syndrom and has to take prescription birth control to stop cysts from growing on her ovaries. ... After months of paying over $100 out of pocket, she just couldn’t afford her medication anymore and had to stop taking it. ... Without taking the birth control, a massive cyst had grown on her ovary. She had to have surgery to remove her entire ovary. ... Since last year’s surgery, she’s been experiencing night sweats, weight gain, and other symptoms of early menopause as a result of the removal of her ovary. She’s 32 years old. As she put it: “If my body is indeed in early menopause, no fertility specialist in the world will be able to help me have my own children.”
The Testimony About Birth Control Republicans Did Not Want You To Hear | ThinkProgress
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Watch out, there's some reality here.
- 14 votes
#1 - Thu Feb 16, 2012 10:29 PM ESTIt is young poor women who will suffer for this religious frenzy.
I tell you, my friend, women are hopping mad over this one!
- 12 votes
I implore all women out there that agree that this is stupid to please vote in the November elections to rid the country of the GOP... Only through voting will you be strong enough to remove idiots like this from making laws that inhibit you to control your own bodies. There are men out there like me that support you and want you to be in control of your own bodies. Please vote for those politicians that want you to be in control, that want you to be able to make your own decision, that want you to be you.
Get organized and VOTE
- 3 votes
I used to watch MSNBC for the hypocritical stupidity coming from the GOP/TP crowd. My comic relief for lack of a better way to put it.
But now that the economy has appearently started to turn the corner, these idiots have taken female contraception rights to just TOTALLY INSANE lows! Its gone from LOL, LMAO, FOFL -- Fall On Floor Laughing -- to jaw-dropping,wacked out, bible-thumping, holier-then-thou, off-the-edge-of-the-earth, absurd, stupidity ! "An aspirin between the knees" By a Santorum backer?! SERIOUSLY!? Even the interviewer Andrea Mitchell, couldn't believe what she was just told by this clown.
- 11 votes
#2 - Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:06 PM ESTI can't believe the aspirin between the knees thing ever came up anywhere. Just when you think you've heard it all...
- 9 votes
So men still think that they can control every aspect of women's lives. Back to bear-foot and pregnant, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, pregnant by rape, being unable to regulate are menstrual cycles, etc.
This is not going to happen men.
If men want to stop women from health care then they must pay equally and you men must stop taking medications for erectile dysfunction, testicle cancer, male enhancement, ejaculation problems, and prostrate cancer among a few. Fair is Fair.
- 12 votes
#3 - Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:37 PM ESTWait for it...just as soon as the aspirin-knees trick begins to work for women, these erstwhile saints from heaven on earth will get even that pill removed from over the counter to perscription only, and overseen from the morality police known as the christobans, who for the lack of a better word, don't resemble christians in any way, shape or fashion.
- 4 votes
#4 - Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:12 AM ESTFor those of you who are interested there is a link below to sign a petition protesting the hearing the men of the GOP conducted in overseeing women's health.
I sent a personalize message that told the men that they had no business concerning themselves with women's health unless they were a gynecologist. We could speak for ourselves. They needed to quit wasting the taxpayers' time and money obsessing about women's reproductive organs and work on the economy.
It is unacceptable that Republicans would convene a panel on denying access to birth control coverage with five men and no women.
It's important that we get as many signatures as we can to call on Speaker Boehner, Eric Cantor, Chairman Issa and all House Republicans to demand that women be brought to the table when discussing women’s health issues.
Please forward this email to five of your friends right now and encourage them to add their name to our petition athttp://dccc.org/WhereAreTheWomen
- 6 votes
#5 - Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:29 AM ESTYou are welcome and thank you for signing.
Sometimes I sign over 10 petitions a day. I felt that this one definitely needed sharing, and was pleased to find a NV seed where it would be relevant and welcomed.
- 4 votes
My sincere thanks, G.H.
I do not have a Facebook account.
Between Newsvine, signing petitions and researching topics of interest, I already spend way too much time on the internet.
- 2 votes
Signed, with a little extra commentary. This whole thing really ticks me off.
- 2 votes
We need to start asking these politicians who are coming out against birth control as part of the health care act have been during the past few years when many many insurance companies cover them. Mine has for the 18 yrs I have had this particular insurance. I do not recall any politician objecting based on religious or moral objections. So why have they not been running around the country denouncing all of these policies? The answer is obvious...they view this is a political wedge issue and for reasons I can not begin to fathom, they think they are in the right. They scream and yell about Obamacare forcing them to have this coverage( though they have the exemption and of course they do not have to use the coverage) but they see nothing wrong with them trying to force their religious and moral objections down the throat of everyone else. Most people are seeing through this as even the majority of Catholics are not viewing this as an assault on religious freedom. What it really is ..a bunch of white old men can not force their religious views on the rest of us, and worse, they don't get to tell women 1 more thing they can and cannot do with their own bodies. Poor guys. One last thing..why haven't they been outraged about viagra and men who choose to have a vasectomy? Oh, that's right...men get to decide..women, not so much. Shame on these men, and especially shame on those who are using their alleged faith as a basis to control someone else.
- 3 votes
#6 - Fri Feb 17, 2012 2:10 AM ESTI've spent many years wanting sex and not getting any. It's not all that bad.
I do understand the ovarian cyst thing though.
- 1 vote
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