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NNN0LHI

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Tue May 22, 2012, 05:47 PM May 2012

Members Of New GOP Women’s Caucus Voted Against Equality For Women

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/05/22/488382/gop-women-caucus/

By Josh Israel on May 22, 2012 at 1:58 pm

<snip>•Violence Against Women: Of the 24 women, 22 voted to rollback the Violence Against Women Act, backing a version of the bill that could violate the confidentiality of victims and that excluded protections for immigrants, LGBT people, and Native Americans.

•Access to contraception: 21 of the 24 co-sponsored the “Respect for Rights of Conscience Act” to take away regulations enacted under Obamacare requiring most employers to cover birth control in their health insurance plans, without additional cost-sharing.

•Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act: Of the 15 Republican Congresswomen who were in the House at the time, all 15 voted against the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, a law that helps women hold accountable employers who discriminate in the pay practices based on gender.

•Paycheck Fairness Act Act: 13 of those 15 also voted against the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would update the 1963 Equal Pay Act by closing many of its loopholes and strengthening incentives to prevent pay discrimination.

•Reproductive health: According to Planned Parenthood, 20 of the 24 GOP women earned a zero score, voting against reproductive health at every opportunity. The average score for the women was under 6 percent.
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Members Of New GOP Women’s Caucus Voted Against Equality For Women (Original Post) NNN0LHI May 2012 OP
What was the name of the character from the Handmaiden's Tale who was the 1 woman allowed to read? Kber May 2012 #1
kick Liberal_in_LA May 2012 #2
What the...? sakabatou May 2012 #3
ideology trumps biology with the right... spanone May 2012 #4
Figures that dumb cluck teabagger Hayworthless joined them. Historic NY May 2012 #5

Kber

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1. What was the name of the character from the Handmaiden's Tale who was the 1 woman allowed to read?
Tue May 22, 2012, 06:18 PM
May 2012

'cause someone needs to remind these women what happened to her character in the end.

Wasn't pretty.

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