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U.S. Senators Celebrate Women's Day By Confronting Women-Hating House Speaker, John Boehner
IES U.S. Senators Celebrate Women's Day By Confronting Women-Hating House Speaker, John Boehner
posted by CIENNA MADRID on THU, MAR 8, 2012 at 1:30 PM
In honor of International Women's Day, today all 12 Democratic U.S. lady Senatorsincluding our very own Patty Murray and Maria Cantwellsent a public letter to House Speaker John Boehner, demanding that he stop being such a limp dickbag obsessed with blocking women's access to affordable birth control. The letter begins:
Speaker Boehner,
We write to express our concerns over your recent statements pledging to continue efforts to put employers between American women and their access to birth control. Specifically, we are asking that you abandon the promise you have made to bring legislation to the House floor similar to the Blunt amendment, which was defeated in the Senate last week, and which would turn the clock back on womens access to health care. Furthermore, we ask that you listen to the overwhelming outcry from American women who support access to contraception and drop all politically-charged efforts to deny them coverage.
Today, at a time when 99% of sexually active women in the U.S. have used birth control, its role in the lives of women and their families is hard to understate. Access to birth control is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality, can reduce the risk of ovarian cancer, and is linked to overall good health outcomes. Nationwide, 1.5 million women use contraceptives only as treatment for serious medical conditions. And most importantly, access to birth control helps reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and abortions, a goal we all share.
That is why the recent Republican attacks on birth control access have been so eye-opening for American women. For most American women, the battle over contraception was settled a half century ago. Yet, over the course of the past month alone, women have watched as panels on birth control have been convened without women, a young woman that dared to speak out in defense of birth control was subjected to vile name-calling, and extreme legislation, like the Blunt amendment, has been pushed to deny access.
Women have had enough. As we have heard from countless women in our home states and here on Capitol Hill, they are tired of being targets for a political strategy that endangers their health care and they want it to stop. We hope that you can answer their calls, and ours. Its time for you to put an end to the attacks on womens health care and to work with the Senate to get back to the American peoples top priority: creating jobs and boosting our economy.
As you may know, today is International Womens Day, a day celebrated each year to mark the political, social, and economic progress women have made. We ask that on this day you join with us in working to ensure that we build on the progress of the past, not reverse it.
Sincerely,
U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Kay Hagan (D-NC), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
We write to express our concerns over your recent statements pledging to continue efforts to put employers between American women and their access to birth control. Specifically, we are asking that you abandon the promise you have made to bring legislation to the House floor similar to the Blunt amendment, which was defeated in the Senate last week, and which would turn the clock back on womens access to health care. Furthermore, we ask that you listen to the overwhelming outcry from American women who support access to contraception and drop all politically-charged efforts to deny them coverage.
Today, at a time when 99% of sexually active women in the U.S. have used birth control, its role in the lives of women and their families is hard to understate. Access to birth control is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality, can reduce the risk of ovarian cancer, and is linked to overall good health outcomes. Nationwide, 1.5 million women use contraceptives only as treatment for serious medical conditions. And most importantly, access to birth control helps reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and abortions, a goal we all share.
That is why the recent Republican attacks on birth control access have been so eye-opening for American women. For most American women, the battle over contraception was settled a half century ago. Yet, over the course of the past month alone, women have watched as panels on birth control have been convened without women, a young woman that dared to speak out in defense of birth control was subjected to vile name-calling, and extreme legislation, like the Blunt amendment, has been pushed to deny access.
Women have had enough. As we have heard from countless women in our home states and here on Capitol Hill, they are tired of being targets for a political strategy that endangers their health care and they want it to stop. We hope that you can answer their calls, and ours. Its time for you to put an end to the attacks on womens health care and to work with the Senate to get back to the American peoples top priority: creating jobs and boosting our economy.
As you may know, today is International Womens Day, a day celebrated each year to mark the political, social, and economic progress women have made. We ask that on this day you join with us in working to ensure that we build on the progress of the past, not reverse it.
Sincerely,
U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Kay Hagan (D-NC), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/03/08/us-senators-celebrate-womens-day-by-confronting-women-hating-house-speaker-john-boehner
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U.S. Senators Celebrate Women's Day By Confronting Women-Hating House Speaker, John Boehner (Original Post)
kpete
Mar 2012
OP
The fact that so few women are in the Senate in this day and age simply boggles the mind.
kestrel91316
Mar 2012
#1
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)1. The fact that so few women are in the Senate in this day and age simply boggles the mind.
We are the 52%. We should CONTROL the Senate. And the House.
stopwastingmymoney
(2,042 posts)2. True
One more reason I'm proud to be a Californian, two of the twelve are ours!
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)3. I have a senator who is female and would not support this.
Kay Bailey Hutchison, Republican of Texas.
I have a governor, two senators and a congresscritter I did not vote for.