Paul Ryan Wants To Use Debt Ceiling To Deny Women Access To Birth Control

[TomCADem]

Source: Think Progress

Since negotiations to avert a national default on the debt have shifted from the House to the Senate, Republicans in the lower chamber are still hoping to use the talks as “leverage” to limit women’s access to contraception.

According to the Washington Post, in a private meeting with House Republicans Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) — who earlier this weak floated a compromise that would raise the debt ceiling in exchange for cuts to entitlement programs — railed against emerging Senate proposals and argued that the “House could not accept either a debt-limit bill or a government-funding measure that would delay the next fight until the new year”:

According to two Republicans familiar with the exchange, Ryan argued that the House would need those deadlines as “leverage” for delaying the health-care law’s individual mandate and adding a “conscience clause” — allowing employers and insurers to opt out of birth-control coverage if they find it objectionable on moral or religious grounds — and mentioned tax and entitlement goals Ryan had focused on in a recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.

Ryan’s speech appeared only to further rile up the conservative wing of the GOP conference, which has been agitating the shutdown strategy to try to tear apart the health-care law.


Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/10/13/2775061/paul-ryan-debt-ceiling-leverage-deny-women-access-birth-control/

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Using the debt-limit bill or a government-funding measure as “leverage” for delaying the health-care law’s individual mandate and adding a “conscience clause"? And who is moving the goal posts? More details can be found here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/boehner-tells-house-gop-negotiations-have-ended/2013/10/12/fa0d3f42-334a-11e3-9c68-1cf643210300_story_2.html

[elleng]

1. Surprise?

[TomCADem]

3. I Guess He Did Not Get The Pope's Memo To Focus More On Social Justice

Instead, an affluent Republican gets to make reproductive rights a chit in debt limit and re-opening the government.

[melody]

2. Let's attach something to order him castrated

So he can't reproduce.

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

8. I'll donate .....

.....the razor blade.

[Auntie Bush]

15. I'll do the deed personally if....

it's a very dull and rusty razor.

[kestrel91316]

26. Look, honey, this calls for a true professional. I'LL do it.

[Buddha_of_Wisdom]

31. Yup, a vet with a rusty dull razor blade....

With no antiseptic, no antibiotics, no anesthesia... sounds perfect!

[Squinch]

4. Republicans: A) get the hell out of my uterus. B) quick pulling issues out of your ass to attach

to the debt ceiling.

Seriously, they're all over the map. These guys have gone completely bonkers.

[Raine1967]

29. They are throwing anything and everything in hopes that something sticks.

It's absolutely stunning. In all the years I've followed such things, I have never seen this.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. He has no conscience

other than to use the cloak of Christianity

as a cover for cutthroat Ayn-Randian capitalism
and Social Darwinism Survival-of-the-Fittest

[marble falls]

6. Hmmmm .... wonder what Ayn Rand had to say about abortion ......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=H0yUjMklVuI#t=28

[Ikonoklast]

24. Ayn Rand loathed Libertarians.

Funny that I have something in common with that hack.

[LiberalEsto]

7. If this is his agenda, why doesn't he go join the Taliban?

Birds of a feather.

[Warren DeMontague]

9. of course he does.

[gopiscrap]

10. paul ryan hates women along with the rest of the teabaggers

[AAO]

11. Well, then he can go fuck himself.

[hue]

12. Lyin' Ryan def does NOT believe in seperation of church & state!

[Dawson Leery]

13. Paul Ryan belongs in the taliban.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. No concessions to extortion, Mr. Ryan; the answer is NO. nt

[displacedtexan]

16. They've already tried this. It was an original ransom demand.

http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2013/09/30/house-gop-threatens-shutdown-over-contraception-obamacare/

[Bette Noir]

17. Sweet Mary Mother of...

If anyone knows of any pro-reproductive rights rallies in the Pacific Northwest that would benefit from a grey-haired lady on a mobility scooter, let me know.

We won these fights when I was in high school. How dare those bastards bring all that same stuff up again!

[CTyankee]

18. that pesky demographic showing the conservatives to be a loser surfaces again!

and lyin' Ryan is on the wrong side again! Too bad, loser!

[Brigid]

19. Thanks, Ryan.

You have just confirmed a decision I made. Now I have no further doubts.

[caseymoz]

20. Republicans have found a magic lantern.

Something that brings them everything they've always wished for. Just take the country hostage and endanger the economy of the whole world.

Don't they know that they're showing the President that they are going to repeat this bullshit every time they want something they can't win through legislation?

Unfortunately, we don't have an election for another year, and the Tea Party's going to make it the worst year of every American's lives, and also make it so our lives never recover.

If I were the sane branch of the GOP, what I would get together with the Democrats and vote to expel all the Teabaggers in Congress, one by one.

[blkmusclmachine]

21. #Burqas4everybody

[Swede Atlanta]

22. I wish I were more optimistic but

I think the government shutdown will continue for an unknown period of time.

I think the pukes will only agree to some form of extortion extension of the debt limit based on their insane ideas.

I think Obama is going to say No, No and Hell No to anything that does not look like and smell like a clean CR to open the government and non-binding conditions on raising the debt ceiling.

Obama is the adult but Bo-ner and his children aren't being disciplined. They want the whole thing to come crashing down.

What to do?

My financial guy knows end of tomorrow to sell all stocks and move me to cash positions. Same with my 401K. These fuckers that caused me to lose 40% of my holdings in 2008 will not do it again.

[lastlib]

23. Ruck Fyan!

I LOATHE "li'l Eddie (Munster)"!!

I am confident that his buddy Satan is keeping his seat in Hell warm for him.....!!

[Blue Owl]

25. Say that Eddie Munster is one creepy fuck

n/t

[SoapBox]

27. So this slime now shows up again.

Guess he has been in hiding, up till now

[retroarama]

28. Republicans hands off Women

In the retro world of Republicans, women still take a back seat when it comes to controlling their own bodies.Without any safety precautions its a dangerous ride indeed.Does it matter who's at the wheel...you betchum. Take a look http://wp.me/p2qifI-1JC

[gopiscrap]

30. Welcome to DU

[Quantess]

32. Remember Paul Ryan's ridiculous workout portraits?

What a douche.

[marshall]

33. What about conception control?

Is he trying to block that as well?

[CBHagman]

34. Your boss gets a say on whether you get treated for endometriosis

[url]http://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/endometri/conditioninfo/Pages/treatment.aspx[/url]

Wow, way to give Americans control of their own health care decisions!

[happypeacebug]

35. True!