An Anti-Choice Congress is the Pitts
It's official. The fox is in the henhouse.
The National Right to Life Committee's hand-picked politician, Rep. Joe Pitts of Pennsylvania, will be the chairman of the Energy and Commerce health subcommittee. Yes, that's a committee that oversees important women's health programs, from health-care reform to family-planning services.
Who is Joe Pitts, and why should pro-choice Americans be concerned? Nancy Keenan summed up his record this way:
Putting Joe Pitts in charge of a committee that oversees women's health programs is like putting Lindsay Lohan in charge of "Celebrity Rehab." It's just ridiculous. Americans who support women's freedom and privacy should take this as a wake-up call of what's to come in this new Congress. Anti-choice politicians are taking their marching orders from extreme groups that oppose legal abortion and other reproductive-health care, including birth control.
Pitts gained notoriety during the health-reform debate as the coauthor of the Stupak-Pitts amendment to the health-reform bill, which would have effectively banned insurance coverage for abortion in the new health system if it had been incorporated into the final reform package.
Recently, he co-wrote a column promising to attack choice.
Don't worry. We're not giving up--we're just getting started. Help us fight back against Pitts, John Boehner, and other anti-choice politicians who are pushing an extreme agenda in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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John Boehner, Joseph R. Pitts, National Right to Life Committee, United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce,
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The NRLC, a.k.a. National Relentless Losers Committee.
It seems to me if the issue was important women would have turned out in great numbers to keep Democrats in office. I voted. I voted for Democrats. Did you? As much as people deny it, there is a very real difference between the parties.
One other comment, we all make out beds and must lay in them. People failed to vote for progressives and must deal with it.