Posted on 02/16/2012 11:12:28 AM PST by Qbert
A Capitol Hill hearing that was supposed to be about religious freedom and a mandate that health insurers cover contraception in the United States began as an argument about whether Democrats could add a woman to the all-male panel.
“Where are the women?” the minority Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., asked early in the hearing.
She criticized the Republican committee chairman, Rep. Darrel Issa, for wanting to “roll back the fundamental rights of women to a time when the government thought what happens in the bedroom is their business.”
“We will not be forced back to that primitive era,” she said. Issa bristled at the charge and said Democrats could not add their witness because she was not a member of the clergy, but a student at Georgetown. He also faulted Democrats for not submitting the name of the witness, Sandra Fluke, in time.
Fluke would have talked about a classmate who lost an ovary because of a syndrome that causes ovarian cysts. Georgetown, which is affiliated with the Catholic Church, does not insure birth control, which is also used to treat the syndrome.
Issa said the hearing is meant to be more broadly about religious freedom and not specifically about the contraception mandate in the Health Reform law.
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Rep. Cummings accused Issa of creating “conspiracy hearing” and stacking the witness list by refusing to allow women “commits a massive injustice by trying to pretend that the views of millions of women across the country are meaningless.”
A terse back and forth followed between Issa, Maloney and Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton of Washington, D.C., about what the true purpose of the hearing was and whether a violation of rules existed. Issa pointed out that Democrats barred Republican witnesses when they were in the majority.
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...Minorities, Women Worst Affected....
Notice also how they’re blurring the distinction between recreational and medicinal use of contraceptives.
Rolling back a “fundamental right” of women that hasn’t yet actually taken effect yet??
Free stuff for all!!
Races don't have rights.
Genders don't have rights.
Churches don't have rights.
Humans have rights.
The notion that contraception is a fundamental right of women is completely false. I am a man -- do I have such a Right? No, of course not. Therefore, it is not a Human Right. It is a "right" constructed to benefit only the members of a priviledged class.
More so -- no one has any Right which imposes a burden on me. I am not your slave. My money is not your money. You have no Right which obligates me to do anything or pay anything.
This is not a Rights issue. This is a political ploy to damage families, damage society, and increase the power of the Elitists who run the government.
What a bunch of crap. Since when is not supporting the use of the power of government to force others to pay for women's birth control, abortion-inducing drugs, and sterilizations, a rollback of “women's rights”?
The Democrats are being dishonest and juvenile. Sad part is, many Americans are ignorant enough to buy it. The media is corrupt. They pretend to be independent reporters of news when the are actually Democrat propagandists who sole purpose is to dupe the public.
It's called the dialectic.
You’re right on track, you know what they’re doing.
I hope others are smart enough to refuse to accept the premise that the left is putting forth.
This is ballgame, right here.
Rush is talking about it now.
"The Democrats are being dishonest and juvenile."
Yep. You should see the shameful headlines and stories that the leftist blogs and MSM are putting out on this: "DARRYL ISSA REFUSES TO ALLOW WOMEN TO SPEAK", "GOP BARS WOMEN FROM PANEL", "DEMOCRATS WALK OUT OF ALL-MALE PANEL", and on and on...
The drive by media and the dems are whipping up a mob again, along the principles enunciated in Ann Coulter's new book.
I have the right to free speech. That doesn't mean people are compelled to supply me with a printing press and ink.
I have a right to free exercise of religion. That doesn't mean people are compelled to build me a Church.
Well, you gotta think ... what where they thinking (or not thinking) in this case by selecting an all male panel?
You know the Dems are going to peddle controversy.
But that aside, it’s not about woman’s rights. Nobody took her right away to buy contraceptives. I mean for years a woman could go to planned parenthood and get the pill for free if needed and probably still can.
Or are only abortions free now at planned parenthood?
There you go again.
Using reason and logic in trying to confront a liberal's irrational argument. Stop it, do you want to give them a brain cramp?
"I hope others are smart enough to refuse to accept the premise that the left is putting forth."
Yep.
Notice there has not been one word from the supposed "women's rights" Dems over the fact that under Obamacare, women will not be able to get the drug Avastin, used to treat breast cancer...
"Well, you gotta think ... what where they thinking (or not thinking) in this case by selecting an all male panel?"
It's all a lie: There is a second panel today with women...:
The Catholic Church has long covered contraceptives for healing purposes. But what are facts in this discussion?
This is not a Rights issue??? I know what you mean, but to be accurate, it is indeed a rights issue, a Bill of Rights issue—Freedom of Religion. “Congress shall make no law . . .” expanded later by the Supremes to “the States shall make no law” “respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech . . ..”
How does a manufactured, gender-right trump the First Amendment? What’s next—taxpayer-funded transplanted ovaries for homosexuals who have a “right” to bear children?
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