EMILY's List ad: 'Who should be heard ... on women's health?'

[maddezmom]

By ALEXANDER BURNS |
2/18/12 1:34 PM EST


The Democratic women's group EMILY's List is going on the air in three television markets with an ad raising the alarm about last week's all-male congressional hearing on contraception, urging women to get engaged in the 2012 campaign and support female candidates, an EMILY's List strategist told POLITICO.

The spot pieces together a montage of male voices on television talking about women's issues -- including contraception, breast cancer screenings and the Komen controversy -- as a narrator begins: "On TV, men talking about women's health issues. We heard them."

It cuts to images of the male-dominated oversight hearing on contraceptive coverage, and shows New York Rep. Carolyn Maloney asking: "Where are the women?"

"Who should be heard on women's lives, on women's health?" the narrator says. "You?"

more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/02/emilys-list-ad-who-should-be-heard-on-womens-health-114923.html

[DirkGently]

1. Good question. Wonder which female Republican lawmakers are being pressured at this moment.

[3c273a]

2. Legal standing?

As a man, I've always wondered why men have any legal standing in contraception and abortion issues.