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O’Malley: GOP Likes Mandates When They’re ‘Transvaginal Probes For Women’
O’Malley: GOP Likes Mandates When They’re ‘Transvaginal Probes For Women’
Benjy Sarlin
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) accused Republicans of hypocrisy for pairing protests against a health care mandate with demands for increasingly invasive restrictions on women’s health.
“The only health care mandate they can embrace are transvaginal probes for women,” O’Malley said Friday during a press call.
O’Malley was referring to bills like one proposed in Virginia that would have required the procedure for women seeking an abortion, part of a broader effort by pro-life groups to shame patients who wish to end their pregnancy. Other Republican-led states, like Pennsylvania and Alabama, have pushed for similar measures.
The governor also dismissed criticism of the Affordable Care Act from Republicans claiming that the Supreme Court’s ruling that the penalty for not having health insurance was actually a tax, noting Mitt Romney had used the same language in his own legislation in Massachusetts.
“It was a penalty provision that was also in Romneycare,” he said. “Or, as Gov. (Bobby) Jindal just called it, ‘Obamneycare.’”
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http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/06/gov-omalley-gop-likes-mandates-when-theyre-transvaginal-probes-for-women.php
Benjy Sarlin
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) accused Republicans of hypocrisy for pairing protests against a health care mandate with demands for increasingly invasive restrictions on women’s health.
“The only health care mandate they can embrace are transvaginal probes for women,” O’Malley said Friday during a press call.
O’Malley was referring to bills like one proposed in Virginia that would have required the procedure for women seeking an abortion, part of a broader effort by pro-life groups to shame patients who wish to end their pregnancy. Other Republican-led states, like Pennsylvania and Alabama, have pushed for similar measures.
The governor also dismissed criticism of the Affordable Care Act from Republicans claiming that the Supreme Court’s ruling that the penalty for not having health insurance was actually a tax, noting Mitt Romney had used the same language in his own legislation in Massachusetts.
“It was a penalty provision that was also in Romneycare,” he said. “Or, as Gov. (Bobby) Jindal just called it, ‘Obamneycare.’”
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http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/06/gov-omalley-gop-likes-mandates-when-theyre-transvaginal-probes-for-women.php
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Yay for O'Malley! We need him here in PA!!!
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cool bass player in a rock band, he takes Republicans to the woodshed without flinching!
I think he's gunning for something. Maybe the Senate if Mikulsky retires or...the presidency in 2016!! 
