Since Bob Dole allowed himself to be the poster boy for Viagra as the solution to erectile dysfunction, in 1998, Viagra became reimbursable by health insurance. A question was raised today by a woman politician, "What about vasectomy which is also paid for by insurance, is that not for contraception?" Nita Chaudhary and Shaunna Thomas have an interesting article well worth reading on the issue of contraception for women. Click here:
The threat is not only about denying women contraception, the danger is rolling back healthcare coverage. Many fronts are pouring lava onto the issue. Virginia has a bill which in this day and age, in the US, is archaic in its handling of women. It requires a woman, without her permission, to have a vaginal violation for an ultrasound which doctors do not recommend and there is no medical reason for it. Read this
Senator Issa, who must be as great a misogynist as I have watched for quite some time, treated women with total lack of consideration. House Democrats walked out on a one-sided hearing on contraception, calling it an 'Autocratic Regine'. An article with the details by Laura Bassett and Amanda Terkel should be read by all who believe in not turning the clock back on the treatment of women by thousands of years. Issa had a panel of all men, with no women represented, defying the custom of allowing the opposite party a witness, and pretended they were concerned and competent to make medical decisions about a woman's body without her consent in their attempt to shame her to prevent her getting an abortion. Having tried this tactic near clinics and having had the law prevent their coming too close, I don't see how this law can avoid being challenged. The United States cannot allow women to be treated with such 'rape' of their body, against medical advice, to be forced to bear an unwanted child.
Abortion has been legal in the United States for several decades now. The number of abortions sought has decreased markedly. Unless I have not read the Constitution accurately as to its meaning, states do not have the right to override Federal Law. Let us hope that this vicious attempt to use women to push someone else's religious beliefs onto them, or used to weaken health care provisions as they now stand must not succeed by these monsters.
The threat is not only about denying women contraception, the danger is rolling back healthcare coverage. Many fronts are pouring lava onto the issue. Virginia has a bill which in this day and age, in the US, is archaic in its handling of women. It requires a woman, without her permission, to have a vaginal violation for an ultrasound which doctors do not recommend and there is no medical reason for it. Read this
Senator Issa, who must be as great a misogynist as I have watched for quite some time, treated women with total lack of consideration. House Democrats walked out on a one-sided hearing on contraception, calling it an 'Autocratic Regine'. An article with the details by Laura Bassett and Amanda Terkel should be read by all who believe in not turning the clock back on the treatment of women by thousands of years. Issa had a panel of all men, with no women represented, defying the custom of allowing the opposite party a witness, and pretended they were concerned and competent to make medical decisions about a woman's body without her consent in their attempt to shame her to prevent her getting an abortion. Having tried this tactic near clinics and having had the law prevent their coming too close, I don't see how this law can avoid being challenged. The United States cannot allow women to be treated with such 'rape' of their body, against medical advice, to be forced to bear an unwanted child.
Abortion has been legal in the United States for several decades now. The number of abortions sought has decreased markedly. Unless I have not read the Constitution accurately as to its meaning, states do not have the right to override Federal Law. Let us hope that this vicious attempt to use women to push someone else's religious beliefs onto them, or used to weaken health care provisions as they now stand must not succeed by these monsters.
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