Note to the idiots -- federal employee health insurance has been paying for birth control for years. I had three C-Sections and was told a 4th could kill me. I wasn't willing to take a chance with three small children but my mother-in-law who was Catholic even though I wasn't, blasted me but good and wanted her son to leave the three kids and I because I decided to make it permanent I was having no more children. I know what bigotry is being a non-catholic in a catholic family.
If this is what today's Republican Party is turning into, I want no part of it because it is a war on women and their rights. Let's see women are not supposed to get an abortion for any reason even the life of the mother and not supposed to take birth control. Maybe if men had to go through nine months of pregnancy, they wouldn't be so out of touch. These statements by members of the House including Boehner's who wants this portion overturned as he panders to the far right for his job, can take and shove it.
After November, I will make the decision on whether to remain in a Party who does not value women or leave the Party I have been part of since a teenager. This group of people in the House and a few in the Senate are some of the meanest Republicans I have ever seen filled with hate and loathing for anyone who doesn't agree with them.
This is not anti-Catholic bigotry -- not even a little and 80% of Catholic women on birth control will agree. This is giving all American women the right to have birth control. If men don't like it, tough!
- 08/01/12 01:05 PM ET
The heated remarks came at a press conference marking the mandate's first day.
House Republicans called the Obama administration's birth-control mandate "religious bigotry" and compared it to the events of Pearl Harbor and Sept. 11, 2001.
"I know in your mind you can think of the times America was attacked," said Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.), a freshman.
"One is December 7 — that is Pearl Harbor Day. Another was September 11 — that was the day of the terrorist attack.
"I want you to remember August 1, 2012 — the attack on our religious freedom. That is a date that will live in infamy, along with those other dates."
Starting Wednesday, most employers will have to cover contraception in their health plans without a co-pay.
Republicans have denounced the policy as an attack on the religious freedom of people who object to birth control or consider some forms equal to abortion.
Another freshman, Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.), said the mandate marks the return of "anti-Catholic bigotry" to American life.
"We thought we were past that," he said, "but the mandate from this administration represents the rearing of its head again."
House Republican leadership, striving to keep its focus on taxes, encouraged the freshmen to take responsibility for the press conference.
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) released a statement saying the Health and Human Services mandate "must be reversed."
"On this day, let us renew our determination to reverse the mandate and restore the religious liberty that has been demolished by the Obama Administration’s actions," he said.
The new policy covers a range of preventive healthcare services apart from birth control, including disease screenings and counseling for women who are breastfeeding or are victims of domestic violence.
But the birth-control provision remains the most controversial, and 24 lawsuits have been filed in response.
Under the policy, employees of some religiously affiliated institutions, such as Catholic hospitals and schools, will receive birth control directly from their insurance company, still without a co-pay. Churches and houses of worship are exempt altogether.
"I know in your mind you can think of the times America was attacked," said Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.), a freshman.
"One is December 7 — that is Pearl Harbor Day. Another was September 11 — that was the day of the terrorist attack.
"I want you to remember August 1, 2012 — the attack on our religious freedom. That is a date that will live in infamy, along with those other dates."
Starting Wednesday, most employers will have to cover contraception in their health plans without a co-pay.
Republicans have denounced the policy as an attack on the religious freedom of people who object to birth control or consider some forms equal to abortion.
Another freshman, Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.), said the mandate marks the return of "anti-Catholic bigotry" to American life.
"We thought we were past that," he said, "but the mandate from this administration represents the rearing of its head again."
House Republican leadership, striving to keep its focus on taxes, encouraged the freshmen to take responsibility for the press conference.
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) released a statement saying the Health and Human Services mandate "must be reversed."
"On this day, let us renew our determination to reverse the mandate and restore the religious liberty that has been demolished by the Obama Administration’s actions," he said.
The new policy covers a range of preventive healthcare services apart from birth control, including disease screenings and counseling for women who are breastfeeding or are victims of domestic violence.
But the birth-control provision remains the most controversial, and 24 lawsuits have been filed in response.
Under the policy, employees of some religiously affiliated institutions, such as Catholic hospitals and schools, will receive birth control directly from their insurance company, still without a co-pay. Churches and houses of worship are exempt altogether.
Source: The Hill
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