In 2012, I stand here in complete amazement,” said Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), “that in a country known for its medical breakthroughs and advancements, Republicans would have us go back to the medical dark ages.” She said the energy and transportation bill otherwise has strong bipartisan support, and deemed the contraception amendment both a poison pill and irrelevant.
Sensing a political upper-hand in the brewing culture war, Senate Democrats had their guns blazing against the GOP’s birth control amendment Tuesday, vowing to fight Republicans’ best efforts to tack it on to the bipartisan highway bill and warning that the measure would take women’s health in America back to the “dark ages.”
You cannot make this shit up, you wished you could, but you can't. The above quote comes from an article titled: Dems to GOP, Keep Birth Control Out of the Highway Bill
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Now back to the original article I wrote this morning about Lizz Winstead.
From a very young age, Lizz Winstead used Planned Parenthood for its reproductive and women's health-care services.
"It helped me through a very hard time," the comedian says. Now, the co-creator of and former head writer for The Daily Show wants to help the agency through its own hard time.
"To watch women's health care be used as a political pawn and bargaining chip in our system is what drove me over the brink," Winstead says by phone from her home in Minneapolis, Minn. "The thing for me that drives me craziest is, if you want to reduce the number of abortions in the country, why do you think it's a good idea to eliminate all access to birth control?"
Congressional conservatives have long targeted Planned Parenthood, and this year attempted to federally defund it. But even more troubling, the comedian says, is what's happening at the state level. In Pennsylvania, for example, the state senate is considering a bill that would reclassify abortion facilities as "ambulatory surgical facilities," requiring costly upgrades that women's-health advocates say would shut down safe and well-run organizations.
This Charade of Owning Women's Vagina's and Bodies continues on in America. They, whoever they are, absolutely postitively believe that Someone else other than a woman herself is in control of who does what to that body. Next they, whoever they are, will be coming for your minds ladies. There is a war on out there.
"That's my Patch of Furry Turf, and you ain't gettin' control of it."
So There.!!!!
"That Furry Turf" applies goes for my head and brain too."
So There Again.