All-Male Panel Considers House Bill To Restrict Women's Reproductive Rights

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The GOP reach-out to women continues.

[NVGonzalez]

Umm... again? Then they wonder on election day why women don't vote for them.

[DC Al Fine]

In the 1970's an all adult supreme court restricted babies' right to life...

See I can make disingenuous headlines too

[badgate]

^Cool story bro


I love how Republicans restrict the time period to get an abortion and make it more expensive to get one (leaving less time for someone without a decent savings account to save up the money)...and then talk about personal responsibility.

[Lief 🗽]

In the 1970's an all adult supreme court restricted babies' right to life...

Nope.

[7,052,770]

In the 1970's an all adult supreme court restricted babies' right to life...

You think that calling fetuses babies helps your side, but it really hurts your side.  Rational, reasonable people who might be swayed by your other arguments are immediately turned off my that emotion-whoring terminology.

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The GOP reach-out to women continues.

so your point is , what, the Subcommittee on the Constitution shouldn't consider bills dealing with abortion?   there should be a gender quota on every House Committee?

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The GOP reach-out to women continues.

so your point is , what, the Subcommittee on the Constitution shouldn't consider bills dealing with abortion?   there should be a gender quota on every House Committee?

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The GOP reach-out to women continues.

so your point is , what, the Subcommittee on the Constitution shouldn't consider bills dealing with abortion?   there should be a gender quota on every House Committee?

huh?

[Antonio the Sixth]

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The GOP reach-out to women continues.

so your point is , what, the Subcommittee on the Constitution shouldn't consider bills dealing with abortion?   there should be a gender quota on every House Committee?

Yes.

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The GOP reach-out to women continues.

so your point is , what, the Subcommittee on the Constitution shouldn't consider bills dealing with abortion?   there should be a gender quota on every House Committee?

Abortion policy is an issue which affects women disproportionately more than it affects men, so a reasonable person would want women adequately represented in a committee that is discussing a bill on it.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Committee quotas, actually, doesn't sound like a crazy idea when we consider that some issues disproportionately affect one group more than others.  This is the House of Representatives, after all, and I think women are entitled to having say on issues that affect women just as minorities are entitled to having say on issues that affect minorities.

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The GOP reach-out to women continues.

so your point is , what, the Subcommittee on the Constitution shouldn't consider bills dealing with abortion?   there should be a gender quota on every House Committee?

Abortion policy is an issue which affects women disproportionately more than it affects men, so a reasonable person would want women adequately represented in a committee that is discussing a bill on it.

okay - but 99% of the hearings before this subcommittee do not deal with abortion.  The reason it was brought before it is the Supreme Court decisions on the matter.  Unless you have a gender quota for every subcommittee, every now and then something is going to discussed by an all-male committee on an issue that disproportionately affects women.

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It's OK, women don't get pregnant from legitimate rape and Savita Halappanavar didn't die from being denied an abortion.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Next item, Republican outreach to African-Americans.

[Jordan]

These people are so bad, that at times I wonder if they are Democrat plants.

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The GOP reach-out to women continues.

so your point is , what, the Subcommittee on the Constitution shouldn't consider bills dealing with abortion?   there should be a gender quota on every House Committee?

Abortion policy is an issue which affects women disproportionately more than it affects men, so a reasonable person would want women adequately represented in a committee that is discussing a bill on it.

okay - but 99% of the hearings before this subcommittee do not deal with abortion.  The reason it was brought before it is the Supreme Court decisions on the matter.  Unless you have a gender quota for every subcommittee, every now and then something is going to discussed by an all-male committee on an issue that disproportionately affects women.

That shouldn't stop such panels from bringing in some women to testify on the issue and give perspective.

[anvi]

I realize I'm going to get tagged with moderate heroism tendencies for saying this.  But there are Dems on this subcommittee too--and their caucus didn't put any women on it either.  I mean, even apart from abortion, aren't there a plethora of constitutional issues pertaining to legislation that effect female as well as male citizens?  And if so, why didn't either party put a single female rep on the committee?? 

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The GOP reach-out to women continues.

so your point is , what, the Subcommittee on the Constitution shouldn't consider bills dealing with abortion?   there should be a gender quota on every House Committee?

Abortion policy is an issue which affects women disproportionately more than it affects men, so a reasonable person would want women adequately represented in a committee that is discussing a bill on it.

okay - but 99% of the hearings before this subcommittee do not deal with abortion.  The reason it was brought before it is the Supreme Court decisions on the matter.  Unless you have a gender quota for every subcommittee, every now and then something is going to discussed by an all-male committee on an issue that disproportionately affects women.

That shouldn't stop such panels from bringing in some women to testify on the issue and give perspective.

Sure. Maybe they did, or plan to. The article doesn't address that.

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The GOP reach-out to women continues.

so your point is , what, the Subcommittee on the Constitution shouldn't consider bills dealing with abortion?   there should be a gender quota on every House Committee?

I can't cut and paste on this phone very well, so you'll just have to look up the wikipedia entry on 'Irony" yourself.

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The GOP reach-out to women continues.

so your point is , what, the Subcommittee on the Constitution shouldn't consider bills dealing with abortion?   there should be a gender quota on every House Committee?

I can't cut and paste on this phone very well, so you'll just have to look up the wikipedia entry on 'Irony" yourself.

very perceptive.  I was attempting something like Socratic irony.  I've never realized Columbo could be thought of as an example of it.   

do you subscribe to the Kierkegaardian view of irony as an infinite absolute negativity?

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The GOP reach-out to women continues.

so your point is , what, the Subcommittee on the Constitution shouldn't consider bills dealing with abortion?   there should be a gender quota on every House Committee?

I can't cut and paste on this phone very well, so you'll just have to look up the wikipedia entry on 'Irony" yourself.

very perceptive.  I was attempting something like Socratic irony.  I've never realized Columbo could be thought of as an example of it.   

do you subscribe to the Kierkegaardian view of irony as an infinite absolute negativity?

Herp-derp.

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The GOP reach-out to women continues.

so your point is , what, the Subcommittee on the Constitution shouldn't consider bills dealing with abortion?   there should be a gender quota on every House Committee?

I can't cut and paste on this phone very well, so you'll just have to look up the wikipedia entry on 'Irony" yourself.

very perceptive.  I was attempting something like Socratic irony.  I've never realized Columbo could be thought of as an example of it.   

do you subscribe to the Kierkegaardian view of irony as an infinite absolute negativity?

Herp-derp.

I'll take that as a yes.

[jaichind]

so your point is , what, the Subcommittee on the Constitution shouldn't consider bills dealing with abortion?   there should be a gender quota on every House Committee?

Yes.

And while we are at it every Subcommittee should have representation from the Bulgarian-American community so the Bulgarian-American community's rights can be protected.

[Non Swing Voter]

so your point is , what, the Subcommittee on the Constitution shouldn't consider bills dealing with abortion?   there should be a gender quota on every House Committee?

Yes.

And while we are at it every Subcommittee should have representation from the Bulgarian-American community so the Bulgarian-American community's rights can be protected.

This seems fair and reasonable.  Bulgarian-American issues do tend to come up as much.