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demmiblue

(36,751 posts)
Tue May 16, 2017, 06:54 AM May 2017

Why should a 62-year-old man have to pay for maternity care?

Source: Mashable

U.S. Rep. Rod Blum, R-Iowa, asked the worst hypothetical question about women's health care at a town hall in Iowa last week, but he got the best response for the ignorant statement — and it's going viral.

Blum asked at a Dubuque, Iowa, town hall, "Why should a 62-year-old man have to pay for maternity care?" If you didn't know, Blum just turned 62 last month and identifies as a man.

Barbara Rank, one of his constituents in the audience, had some thoughts stemming from this question and let her local newspaper know. In the Telegraph Herald on Friday she wrote, "I ask, why should I pay for a bridge I don’t cross, a sidewalk I don’t walk on, a library book I don’t read?"



http://mashable.com/2017/05/15/health-care-iowa-congressman-reddit-barbara-rank/?utm_cid=hp-h-3
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Why should a 62-year-old man have to pay for maternity care? (Original Post) demmiblue May 2017 OP
This is the 'I got mine, screw you" attitude that many seniors have coupled with sexism. octoberlib May 2017 #1
Great letter malaise May 2017 #2
k for visibility riversedge May 2017 #3
Why should a pacifist have to pay for weapons and wars? P.S. If the opinion is not one's own, WinkyDink May 2017 #4
this 37 yo woman pays for the 62 yo man's boner pills crazycatlady May 2017 #5
And does the 62 year old man have any grandchildren? How does he think that happened? yellowcanine May 2017 #6
Because we were all born. Hassin Bin Sober May 2017 #7
Was he carried in a woman's womb? eShirl May 2017 #8

octoberlib

(14,971 posts)
1. This is the 'I got mine, screw you" attitude that many seniors have coupled with sexism.
Tue May 16, 2017, 07:00 AM
May 2017

Not all but quite a few. They always vote against things like raising taxes to improve schools because ,damn, they don't have kids in school anymore so why should they have to pay for anybody else's? And they'd be perfectly fine with cutting SS and Medicare for people under the age of 55.

 

WinkyDink

(51,311 posts)
4. Why should a pacifist have to pay for weapons and wars? P.S. If the opinion is not one's own,
Tue May 16, 2017, 08:23 AM
May 2017

quotation marks would make that clear.

yellowcanine

(35,692 posts)
6. And does the 62 year old man have any grandchildren? How does he think that happened?
Tue May 16, 2017, 09:05 AM
May 2017

Someone got pregnant.

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