Birth-Control Hearing Was ‘Like Stepping Into a Time Machine’ [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

Feb 17, 2012 3:43pm
Birth-Control Hearing Was ‘Like Stepping Into a Time Machine’

Showing an enlarged photograph of the all-male panel at Rep. Darrell Issa’s committee hearing Thursday, a group of Democratic women senators took to the Senate floor today to protest the “assault on women,” for excluding a women’s perspective during the session on contraceptives.

“Reading the news this morning was like stepping into a time machine and going back 50 years,” Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said. “It’s a picture that says a thousand words, and it’s one that most women thought was left behind when pictures only came in black and white.”

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Democratic women senators today came to back them up in protest of the hearing.

“I’m disappointed. I know it’s a disappointment that’s shared by millions of women across this country,” Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., said. “I’m saddened that here we are in 2012 and a House committee would hold a hearing on women’s health and deny women the ability to share their perspective.”

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