GOP Invites Five Men To Testify On Women's Health
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Uploaded on Feb 16, 2012
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Q: Madam Leader, a number of Catholic institutions are self-insured, and they say the whole notion that the insurer should pay for these services that they object to doesn't help them at all. For example, the Catholic Church in Washington, D.C., is a self-insured institution. Should the Catholic Church in Washington, D.C. be required to pay for these morning after pills and birth control if they find that morally objectionable?
Leader Pelosi. You are talking about birth control; you are talking about women's health. I firmly believe, I want to remove all doubt in anyone's mind on where I am on this subject. This is an issue about women's health, and I believe that women's health should be covered in all of the insurance plans that are there.
Right now, as we gather here, in another part of the Capitol there is a hearing. Five men are testifying on women's health. My colleague, Carolyn Maloney of New York, who is on the committee, looked down at this panel from which a woman, who was the Democratic witness, was excluded and said: "where are the women?" And that's a good question for the whole debate. Where are the women? Where are the women on that panel?
Imagine having a panel on women's health, and they do not have any women on the panel. Duh! What is it that men don't understand about women's health? And how central the issue of family planning is to that? Not just if you're having families, but if you need various kinds of prescription drugs for your general health, which was the testimony they would have heard this morning if they had allowed a woman on the panel.
I think the fact that they did not allow a woman on the panel is symbolic of the whole debate, as to who is making these decisions about women's health, and who should be covered. And I remind you, I think it's [28] states have this requirement already. So this is nothing really new. More than half of the states already have it.
So this is probably a pretty good debate to have. Just think. Suppose you were, suppose you were a Christian Scientist, and you had an institution, and you said, if people work here for us, who are not Christian Scientists, or even if they are, they cannot avail themselves of any medical treatments because that's what we believe. Would that work for you? I mean, it's just, it's so, shall we say, disrespectful of the contribution that, in this case, women make to the workforce. Ninety-eight percent of Catholic women, I am told by all of you, [have used] birth control to determine the size and the timing of their families.
So again, it is a women's health issue. Yes, I think that all institutions should cover and give health insurance, should cover the full range of health insurance issues for women. And I think it's really curiouser and curiouser, that as we get further into this debate, the Republican leadership of this Congress thinks it's appropriate to have a hearing on a subject of women's health and purposefully exclude women from the panel.
What else do you need to know about the subject? If you need to know more, tune in. I may, I may at some point be moved to explain biology to my colleagues.
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WindowsAndMacintosh 6 months ago
I'm a Catholic, a Republican, and very pro-life. But I do believe that since this is literally about women's health, there should have been women there. There are plenty of pro-life and pro-choice women and men. It doesn't make sense to me. It needs to change.
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Rep.Pelosi,we need more politicians like you who truly care for the people.
I too was very offended at 5 men making choices for womens health,and none of them have a clue of the truth.
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Damn, I can't help but love this woman! "I may, at some point, be moved to explain biology to my colleagues." She's the only Democrat who actually punches back at the Republicans with the same force that they deliver.
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I do have my facts straight (cont. 2)
5) If providing contraceptives "for free" really saved insurance companies money, then they would have covered it a long time ago without a government mandate.
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I do have my facts straight (cont.)
3) In his announcement (February 10th) the President said, "no religious institution will have to provide these services DIRECTLY." Note the key word "directly." In saying it this way the president is acknowledging that religious institutions will be forced to provide them indirectly.
4) Q. Where do insurance companies get the money to pay for services from? A. PREMIUMS! So institutions who pay the premiums will, indirectly, pay for "contraceptives".
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I do have my facts straight.
1) The "Accommodation" announced by the President, on February 10th 2012, was not actually implemented in the final rule. The original, August 1st 2011, rule was filed in the Federal Register unchanged.
2) Many religious organizations self insure, so they will directly pay for it, (even IF the "accommodation" is ever implemented) because they are the insurance provider.
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It is NOT a women's health issue. No one is saying these women cannot use birth control birth or even have abortions if they want them. The issue is does the President have the constitutional authority to force religious institutions to provide them against their own beliefs. This is the President using the healthcare law for political purposes.
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If the Federal Government determines that women have a "right" to these devices and drugs, then the Federal Government should pay for them; not religious organizations. If they do that then this becomes pretty much a non-issue for the Church.
By the way, the definition of "contraception" that I used above is not mine, it comes from medical dictionaries.
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Nor is the Federal Government a religious authority and by the same First Amendment is not allowed to interfere with the free exercise of religion. This is not a situation of the church dictating to the government nor is the church deciding what rights people should have. What is happening with this mandate is the Federal Government is dictating to the Church how it must run its affairs by making a rule that would require religious organizations violate their beliefs.
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My church only objects to drugs and devices that destroy the fertilized embryo. Some devices and drugs that the FDA has labeled contraceptives are not, they are really abortifacients (abortion causing). If you look at the very word "contraception" it is a contraction of the words "contra" (against) and "conception" (fertilization). In order for something to truly be a contraceptive it would have to prevent fertilization, not destroy what has been already fertilized.
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tearsoftechnology 10 months ago
I am a man and I am OFFENDED by this. I see this panel as a Christian Taliban. this is what they do in countries like Afghanistan & Iran. You go to the religious leaders for advice on health issues? What about doctors or women? This is amazing.
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uwqe dsadw 10 months ago
GOP women are weak, self-hating individuals who let men speak for their rights. This is unbelievable.
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