Is the alleged GOP's war on women a false liberal boogeyman?

Yurt said:
cite for not allowing any women to testify. i was against that stupid bill...

one example is hardly a war. further, the issue isn't really about women, it is about abortion.
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This morning, Democrats tore into House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) for preventing women from testifying before a hearing examining the Obama administration’s new regulation requiring employers and insurers to provide contraception coverage to their employees. Republicans oppose the administration’s rule and have sponsored legislation that would allow employers to limit the availability of birth control to women.
Ranking committee member Elijah Cummings (D-MD) had asked Issa to include a female witness at the hearing, but the Chairman refused, arguing that “As the hearing is not about reproductive rights and contraception but instead about the Administration’s actions as they relate to freedom of religion and conscience, he believes that Ms. Fluke is not an appropriate witness.”
And so Cummings, along with the Democratic women on the panel, took their request to the hearing room, demanding that Issa consider the testimony of a female college student. But the California congressman insisted that the hearing should focus on the rules’ alleged infringement on “religious liberty,” not contraception coverage, and denied the request. Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) walked out of the hearing in protest of his decision, citing frustration over the fact that the first panel of witnesses consisted only of male religious leaders against the rule. Holmes Norton said she will not return, calling Issa’s chairmanship an “autocratic regime.”
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Issa also dismissed the Democrats’ woman witness as a “college student’ who does not “have the appropriate credentials” to testify before his committee.

My but that Issa fella is one smug bastard with an overinflated opinion of himself...
 
Yurt said:
cite for not allowing any women to testify. i was against that stupid bill...

one example is hardly a war. further, the issue isn't really about women, it is about abortion.
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btw...several states are trying to implement the same transvaginal ultrasound procedure before allowing a woman to have an abortion, so it's actually MANY examples of the war against women.

And yes, if the issue is abortion, it IS about women...unless you can name some men who've undergone the procedure lately.
 
ZappasGuitar said:
btw...several states are trying to implement the same transvaginal ultrasound procedure before allowing a woman to have an abortion, so it's actually MANY examples of the war against women.

And yes, if the issue is abortion, it IS about women...unless you can name some men who've undergone the procedure lately.
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the issue is about the unborn child. abortion is not solely about women. thus, it is false to claim that is an example of the purported war on women.
 
ZappasGuitar said:
This morning, Democrats tore into House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) for preventing women from testifying before a hearing examining the Obama administration’s new regulation requiring employers and insurers to provide contraception coverage to their employees. Republicans oppose the administration’s rule and have sponsored legislation that would allow employers to limit the availability of birth control to women.
Ranking committee member Elijah Cummings (D-MD) had asked Issa to include a female witness at the hearing, but the Chairman refused, arguing that “As the hearing is not about reproductive rights and contraception but instead about the Administration’s actions as they relate to freedom of religion and conscience, he believes that Ms. Fluke is not an appropriate witness.”
And so Cummings, along with the Democratic women on the panel, took their request to the hearing room, demanding that Issa consider the testimony of a female college student. But the California congressman insisted that the hearing should focus on the rules’ alleged infringement on “religious liberty,” not contraception coverage, and denied the request. Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) walked out of the hearing in protest of his decision, citing frustration over the fact that the first panel of witnesses consisted only of male religious leaders against the rule. Holmes Norton said she will not return, calling Issa’s chairmanship an “autocratic regime.”
Watch a compilation of the heated exchange:

Issa also dismissed the Democrats’ woman witness as a “college student’ who does not “have the appropriate credentials” to testify before his committee.

My but that Issa fella is one smug bastard with an overinflated opinion of himself...
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so you couldn't back your claim that the gop didn't allow women to testify....
 
Yurt said:
so you couldn't back your claim that the gop didn't allow women to testify....
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Google is your friend dummy. It was all over the fucking newspapers at the time and now you want to pretend it's some big secret or a lie. Get real. Fucking google it and shut up.
 
Watermark said:
Woah, slow down there. What was the "word" that they played with Patreus' good name? I'm sure that word was all-at-once unsubstantiated, intentional, and kind of a big deal...
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That's it...make sure to do your best to deflect attention away from the veracity of the points in the moveon piece regarding conservatives war on women.
 
Yurt said:
the issue is about the unborn child. abortion is not solely about women. thus, it is false to claim that is an example of the purported war on women.
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Women have abortions, Republicans are trying to deny them that right, so it is CLEARLY an example of the war against women.
 
Yurt said:
so you couldn't back your claim that the gop didn't allow women to testify....
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Right...then let's go to a quote from the VERY FIRST LINE of the article, which you obviously never read.


"This morning, Democrats tore into House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) for preventing women from testifying..."
 
Darla said:
Google is your friend dummy. It was all over the fucking newspapers at the time and now you want to pretend it's some big secret or a lie. Get real. Fucking google it and shut up.
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It's right there in the very first sentence of the article..."This morning, Democrats tore into House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) for preventing women from testifying..."


Just one more example of how Yurt is physically incapable of admitting when I am right.
 
Watermark said:
Abortion is about killing, not rights.
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Don't have sex, then you won't have to worry about a woman having one, because you obviously will never need one yourself.

Go adopt a baby or a foster child.

Don't lay your morals on another persons body.
 
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