Brown: Employers Should Be Able to Deny NH Women Basic Health Coverage
Source: NH Labor News
Concord After days of public pressure, former Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown told New Hampshire women he supports the recent Supreme Court decision that would allow employers, not doctors, to decide what contraceptive health care theyll cover for their female employees.
On WKXL radio, Brown said Ive supported in the past and will continue to support the courts Hobby Lobby ruling, adding even though that may be out-of-touch with social opinion.
Scott Brown knows that he is out of touch with New Hampshire women, that is why he tried to hide his radical position from them for 48 hours, said Shaheen Campaign Communications Director Harrell Kirstein. Believing that womens health care decisions should be made between her and her doctor not her employer is not social opinion, it is a deeply held New Hampshire value that Brown clearly does not understand. It is insulting that Scott Brown would be so dismissive of womens right to basic contraceptive coverage as if it was a passing trend.
FULL story at link.
Read more: http://nhlabornews.com/2014/07/brown-employers-should-be-able-to-deny-nh-women-basic-health-coverage/
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Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)calimary
(81,466 posts)gets complacent. He sure did last time, THANK YOU martha coakley (and how WAS that nice vacation you took during campaign season because you were just sure you had it in the bag?).
Indykatie
(3,697 posts)She wasn't a good candidate but even with that Dems should have won that seat and would have had we got off our asses and voted.
niyad
(113,552 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)and eff the doctor and more importantly, the "body" that is hers, a women. Women decide decide for ourselves? Now again women are sluts, whores, evil sinner cheap but alas where are the men who enjoy sex, especially the GOPer men (out their marriage).
WCLinolVir
(951 posts)And soon no one will want or need to listen to anything he says.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Fuck off, Idiot.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)sheshe2
(83,898 posts)Scotties, 'Koch bought opinion' DOES NOT TRUMP a woman's right to choice over her own body.
Polls...
http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/2014-new-hampshire-senate-brown-vs-shaheen
Ferretherder
(1,446 posts)...and that is the sheer STUPIDITY of the right-wing politicians who are not only NOT trying to distance themselves from this horrible affront to true justice, at least to 'appear' to support women's rights for their own political gain, but are, indeed, DOUBLING DOWN on the farcical 'logic' of this ruling supporting anything akin to some kind of 'freedom of religion', or 'freedom of speech', or whateverthehell this abomination could possibly represent!
The mind boggles.
Are they trying to GIVE us the entire next election cycle?! Seriously, I mean WTF?
Cha
(297,655 posts)CBHagman
(16,987 posts)...with this playing on a loudspeaker.
Yeah, I know the song isn't quite a match, but the title works.
Cha
(297,655 posts)don't have to blast from the roof tops. idiot.
sheshe2
(83,898 posts)Let him blast away, Cha.
Polls...
http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/2014-new-hampshire-senate-brown-vs-shaheen
Cha
(297,655 posts)bigger one.
Thank you for the polling, she.. when scotty gets desperate he gets even more weird. He'll be pulling out all the stops! Maybe for next time.. he'd go over better in Florida?
sheshe2
(83,898 posts)phoenixpcrod
(9 posts)I really thought this country was smarter than these idiots. The last 7 years just how much stupidity is out there!
sheshe2
(83,898 posts)And welcome to DU!
calimary
(81,466 posts)Glad you're here! TOTAL dickhead. I remember when he inadvertently pimped out his daughters when he won that election that martha coakley almost literally handed to him with her own arrogance and presumption. Thought campaign season was a great time to take a vacation. Didn't think she had to work for it. Underestimated the enemy egregiously and unforgivably - because this one, the late Ted Kennedy's seat, actually should have been in the bag to stay Democratic!
It of course eventually paved the way for Senator Elizabeth Warren to rescue it and return it to the blue column. But I have a feeling she would have wound up a Massachusetts Senator anyway. 'Cause after that election, John Kerry moved to the State Department.
Still, the very idea that a Senate seat in Massachusetts held by a senior Kennedy for so long and so well, with a legacy like his, would fall into enemy hands, even for less than one full term, I felt was a truly galling and outrageous thing to see. Heresy! Blasphemy! Sheer apostasy!
sheshe2
(83,898 posts)You are such a kind and generous woman.
As for Coakley, you are so right. She ran a crap campaign and was AWOL for most of it. I am happy to know that she has learned an extremely critical lesson from that. She is running for Governor of Mass.
Polls
http://www.wbur.org/2014/03/20/coakley-leads-governors-race
No sitting back. We vote. Be Heard 2014
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)on stage after winning...so my next thought was....wonder how many of those daughters of yours are on BC right now Scot? Since almost 90% of women use BC at some point or another....there is a good chance one or more of those beautiful daughters of his has or will use BC!
What a nitwit he is....
Omaha Steve
(99,708 posts)Pennie109
(128 posts)how these people get elected.
calimary
(81,466 posts)Good to have you with us! I am, too. I'm amazed that anybody can support a ding-dong like this. He's a walking, talking definition of the notion that beauty is only skin deep. Some find him quite handsome. And I suppose strictly on the surface he could be considered as such. But I find him unsightly, mainly because his ideas are ugly, and the agenda he fully supports and would vote to extend and enhance is flat-out hideous.
There are people who think sarah palin is hot-looking, too. But all I see are ugly ideas and ugly attitudes and an EXTREMELY ugly agenda.
alp227
(32,052 posts)gordianot
(15,243 posts)If he is a moderate please explain the difference to the myriad of radical Republicans who are sucking the life out of this country. There should differing opinions among political parties but this is total nonsense. A rotten disease infects the Republican Party there are no moderates. The disdain they display for the poor, middle class, immigrants, women, disabled, veterans, children, unemployed, elderly, racial minorities (soon to be majorities) etc. is staggering.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)Sadly true.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)His staffers should have, y'know, mentioned that.
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)Please. Women in New Hampshire. Let us know here on DU if we can help. Organize, Vote, retire Brown. No more states for Brown.
burrowowl
(17,645 posts)get out and VOTE!
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)but they would target contraceptives. Gays, and employment terminations, will be next. Since they can now allow their religious beliefs to dictate employees personal behaviors, the possibilities are endless what will be against their religion.
I wrote a piece on this on another site and will post when I get the chance.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)Fucking douche-o-rama.
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)"Where's my dunce cap?"
elias49
(4,259 posts)Bwahaahaha! He's toast.
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)Wonder what he'll run for next?
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)joshcryer
(62,276 posts)3catwoman3
(24,041 posts)...and the truck he rode in on.
Trading in the hunting vest for pinstripes doesn't change anything about who is wearing it.
Gloria in NM
(9 posts)Well, he should get it out of mothballs and get run over with it.
This scumbag is a blatant carpetbagger, on top of all his crappy GOP ties.
New Hampshire would be nuts to vote him in...if they did, they should just move the entire state into Alabama or another
one of those states that vote to hurt themselves.....I almost can't stand it any more...