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 thedailywhat:

This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: The House Oversight Committee, chaired by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), is holding a meeting today entitled “Lines Crossed” to review President Obama’s health care mandate compromise requiring employers and insurers to provide employees with coverage for contraception.

Despite acceptance from both religious organizations and women’s groups, Republicans are opposed to the requirement, and seek to allow employers to decline contraception coverage at will.

Though the hearing concerns women and their reproductive rights, Rep. Issa has refused to allow female witnesses to testify at the hearing, saying it was “not about reproductive rights and contraception but instead about the Administration’s actions as they relate to freedom of religion and conscience.”

Following this statement, Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) left the room in protest.

Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle (R-NY) — who recently called opponents of abortion “heroes” — remained seated as an all-male panel (above) opened the hearing.

Watch committee members criticise Rep. Issa’s decision below: 

[atlantic / think / tpm.

Hadn’t seen this post. It’s better than mine. 

I heard this on FUV this afternoon. I was appalled. How DARE this progressive nation allow decisions about women’s health be made by conservative, ignorant men?! I’m so disappointed. This is in no way a breach of religious freedom. Haters should fuck off. 

(via lonelyvagabond)