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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow The GOP Went Back To The 1950s In Just One Day
Very neatly, and on three separate fronts, conservatives in America turned the clock back to the 1950s with their rhetoric about womens rights Thursday, according to women in politics on both sides of the aisle. This could be a big problem for the GOP when the calendar reaches November.
Lets take a look at Thursday, February 16, 2012, the day Washington fell into a time-warp.
On Capitol Hill, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) held hearings on contraception and religious freedom that produced the now-famous picture of a table full of men called to weigh in on access to contraceptives. Democrats wanted a woman a Georgetown law student with a friend who lost an ovary because the university doesnt cover birth control to say her piece at the hearing, but Issa wouldnt let her on the panel. He said she wasnt appropriate or qualified to discuss the topic at hand.
Jaws dropped in the womens rights community.
She didnt have the right credentials? NOW President Terry ONeill scoffed. Im thinking to myself, Buddy, you and your little panel over there dont have the right anatomy to talk about birth control.
More at link: http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/02/how-the-gop-went-back-to-the-1950s-in-just-one-day.php?ref=fpb
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How The GOP Went Back To The 1950s In Just One Day (Original Post)
SunsetDreams
Feb 2012
OP
I don't 'buy' the '50s thing. It's more like attempting to put women back in
sinkingfeeling
Feb 2012
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librechik
(30,677 posts)1. more like the 1850s
sinkingfeeling
(51,479 posts)2. I don't 'buy' the '50s thing. It's more like attempting to put women back in
the place they held in 1912.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)3. Welcome to Idaho, where it's still 1954
Only about half of the men living here respect women in this state.
The other half is Republican.