Congresswomen Walk Out on All-Male Panel Attacking Birth Control
This morning, the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing on President Obama's policy ensuring that all women can get contraceptive coverage without a copay.
The hearing featured an all-male witness panel that attacked insurance coverage of birth control.
Before the hearing, the committee's chairman, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), refused to let a female law-school student to testify about the importance of birth control.
But let's leave the testimony to the experts--the eight men who want to take away women's contraception-coverage.
To draw attention to this farce of a hearing, several congresswomen on the committee walked out in protest.
Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) said the hearing was being run "like an autocratic regime."
While women were cut out of the hearing, they did make their presence known outside the committee room. A group of NARAL Pro-Choice America employees joined pro-choice lawmakers for a press conference to highlight Rep. Issa's outrageous behavior in forbidding women from testifying at a hearing on birth control!
Are you appalled by what happened this morning? Let Rep. Issa know: (202) 225-3906 or tweet @DarrellIssa.
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Birth control, contraception, Darrell Issa, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Issa, no-cost birth control, Obama, United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform,
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Are we in the US or in Spain during the inquisition
Typical way the GOP does business - a bunch of men holding a hearing about WOMEN'S health concerns and not allowing ONE WOMAN to testify!!
You guys think the public is stupid right? This is another time you have gone WAY TOO FAR!
Stay the hell out of our reproductive organs!!
How dare they? There is so much wrong with what happened. It's very upsetting to find that women have so little power after all this time.
Completely moronic and hypocritical. We can't let this continue!
Why were there ANY men at all on the panel?
I think its about time women spoke up and told men
to let us do our own thinking. We know when we are able and willing to have children. We do not need men to take care of us and be thankful for them telling us whats good for us and whats not. Women please respect who you are and speak out. Carole
I am outraged at Rep. Issa's decision to ban women from a discussion on birth-control. We are not living in the dark ages and this is not the Vatican. I suspect that you probably will not even read what the women have written her. After all, you have shown yourself to be anti-women and their rights. You need to get rid of the chauvinistic attitude. This kind of attitude is holding the country back. Although I am from another state, I have a daughter who lives in California. This is not appreciated by either of us or any woman who knows her rights. The panel should have been addressed by all women seeing as it is our bodies that you are tralking about.
I am outraged at Rep. Issa's decision to ban women from a discussion on birth-control. We are not living in the dark ages and this is not the Vatican. I suspect that you probably will not even read what the women have written here. After all, you have shown yourself to be anti-women and their rights. You need to get rid of the chauvinistic attitude. This kind of attitude is holding the country back. Although I am from another state, I have a daughter who lives in California. This is not appreciated by either of us or any woman who knows her rights. The panel should have been addressed by all women seeing as it is our bodies that you are talking about. We are not children doing what Papa says. God help your wife and daughters.