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check out Grassley try to explain to a constituent why he voted against the ACA 7 times without proposing a replacement.
Something something McCain voted for so it was always safe something something
Something something McCain voted for so it was always safe something something
He's a shameless hack and farmer welfare whore.
For the party that claims it is for limited government and the bill of rights the GOP sure do try to limit who can exercise their constitutional right to vote (you’d think this was a clear violation of the 26th amendment given it will disproportionately hurt the elderly)
Ffs
www.statenews.org
One fifth of the representatives in the House have signed on to a bill sponsored by Republican John Becker that would prohibit most insurance companies from offering coverage for abortion services. “The intent is to save lives and reduce the cost of employers and employees health care insurance," Becker says. The bill would ban nontherapeutic abortions that include "drugs or devices used to prevent the implantation of a fertilized ovum.”
And Becker says the bill also speaks to coverage of ectopic or tubal pregnancies where the fertilized egg attaches outside of the womb. “Part of that treatment would be removing that embryo from the fallopian tube and reinserting it in the uterus so that is defined as not an abortion under this bill," Becker explains. “That doesn’t exist in the realm of treatment for ectopic pregnancy. You can’t just re-implant. It’s not a medical thing," says Jaime Miracle, deputy director of NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio. She says, under this bill, women would have to wait until their very lives were in danger to get an abortion in the case of an ectopic pregnancy. “This bill will have grave impacts on Ohio’s infant and mortality rate," Miracle says.
And she says that’s not all. She says it will ban insurance from covering popular methods of birth control. “Birth control pills, IUD’s and other methods of birth control like that – the bill states that any birth control that could act to stop a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus is considered an abortion under this bill," Miracle says.
Becker insists his bill does not target birth control. “When you get into the contraception and abortifacients, that’s clearly not my area of expertise but I suppose, if it were true that what we typically known as the pill would be classified as an abortifacient, then I would imagine the drug manufacturers would reformulate it so it’s no longer an abortifacient and is strictly a contraceptive," Becker says.
Ohio Legislature Considering Abortion Ban More Restrictive Than "Heartbeat Bill"
A new bill would ban most private insurance coverage for abortions. But opponents say it would also ban effective methods of birth control. One fifth of…
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And Becker says the bill also speaks to coverage of ectopic or tubal pregnancies where the fertilized egg attaches outside of the womb. “Part of that treatment would be removing that embryo from the fallopian tube and reinserting it in the uterus so that is defined as not an abortion under this bill," Becker explains. “That doesn’t exist in the realm of treatment for ectopic pregnancy. You can’t just re-implant. It’s not a medical thing," says Jaime Miracle, deputy director of NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio. She says, under this bill, women would have to wait until their very lives were in danger to get an abortion in the case of an ectopic pregnancy. “This bill will have grave impacts on Ohio’s infant and mortality rate," Miracle says.
And she says that’s not all. She says it will ban insurance from covering popular methods of birth control. “Birth control pills, IUD’s and other methods of birth control like that – the bill states that any birth control that could act to stop a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus is considered an abortion under this bill," Miracle says.
Becker insists his bill does not target birth control. “When you get into the contraception and abortifacients, that’s clearly not my area of expertise but I suppose, if it were true that what we typically known as the pill would be classified as an abortifacient, then I would imagine the drug manufacturers would reformulate it so it’s no longer an abortifacient and is strictly a contraceptive," Becker says.
Ffs
One fifth of the representatives in the House have signed on to a bill sponsored by Republican John Becker that would prohibit most insurance companies from offering coverage for abortion services. “The intent is to save lives and reduce the cost of employers and employees health care insurance," Becker says. The bill would ban nontherapeutic abortions that include "drugs or devices used to prevent the implantation of a fertilized ovum.”Ohio Legislature Considering Abortion Ban More Restrictive Than "Heartbeat Bill"
A new bill would ban most private insurance coverage for abortions. But opponents say it would also ban effective methods of birth control. One fifth of…
And Becker says the bill also speaks to coverage of ectopic or tubal pregnancies where the fertilized egg attaches outside of the womb. “Part of that treatment would be removing that embryo from the fallopian tube and reinserting it in the uterus so that is defined as not an abortion under this bill," Becker explains. “That doesn’t exist in the realm of treatment for ectopic pregnancy. You can’t just re-implant. It’s not a medical thing," says Jaime Miracle, deputy director of NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio. She says, under this bill, women would have to wait until their very lives were in danger to get an abortion in the case of an ectopic pregnancy. “This bill will have grave impacts on Ohio’s infant and mortality rate," Miracle says.
And she says that’s not all. She says it will ban insurance from covering popular methods of birth control. “Birth control pills, IUD’s and other methods of birth control like that – the bill states that any birth control that could act to stop a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus is considered an abortion under this bill," Miracle says.
Becker insists his bill does not target birth control. “When you get into the contraception and abortifacients, that’s clearly not my area of expertise but I suppose, if it were true that what we typically known as the pill would be classified as an abortifacient, then I would imagine the drug manufacturers would reformulate it so it’s no longer an abortifacient and is strictly a contraceptive," Becker says.
FFS.
Elected officials should have to pass a test on a topic before they get to enact laws about said topic.
He is just full of ideas about the best way to provide healthcare to others.
Furthermore, if medical providers had immunity from malpractice litigation for indigent (charity) care, they could provide health care services more economically.
Heard him on the radio this morning. He was saying that tariffs are effective. The interviewer asked him about taking subsidies for his crops and he said he did it just to show solidarity with other farmers ??!! He said that, a republican senator, and still they'll vote for him!
In Ohio, Republicans are proposing a bill that would ban the use of the pill.
I'm not sure I'll ever understand why someone would vote republican.
It does seem to be two different countries on one landmass.
I'm not sure I'll ever understand why someone would vote republican.
It does seem to be two different countries on one landmass.
It's is just crazy that "America-loving" and "patriotic" Republicans are continually against studying and collecting data on a phenomenon that kills about 20,000 to 30,000 Americans every year. Maybe this will go through...
House panel allots $50M to study gun violence
House Democratic appropriators are allocating $50 million to study gun violence, aiming to accelerate research that had been effectively off-limits at the CDC for more than two decades.
The House Labor-HHS-Education fiscal 2020 funding bill unveiled this afternoon provides $25 million to CDC and $25 million to NIH to research how to prevent firearm injury and death. The funding, which has been sought by gun violence-prevention advocates and some prominent doctors' groups, will likely face resistance from Republicans.
Lawmakers haven't provided funding to study gun violence at the CDC in over two decades, largely because of a spending provision that had a chilling effect on research. A budget deal in March 2018 clarified that the federal government can study gun violence, as long as it doesn't use the research to promote gun control.
Republicans last month said they were wary of providing new money for gun research, claiming Democrats are trying to score political points because the CDC already has the authority to study gun violence.
However, the CDC, which collects data on gun violence injuries, said it's limited in what it can do without more money.
"Dedicated funding from Congress would help CDC to move forward in this work," an agency spokesperson told POLITICO in March.
Addressing gun violence is a priority for House Democrats, who earlier this year passed a bill, H.R. 8 (116), largely along party lines, mandating federal background checks on all gun sales. The issue has received a boost from some doctors , who recently have become more visible advocates for gun control after the NRA scolded them for speaking up about firearm policy.
The House appropriations health subcommittee will mark up the bill Tuesday.
House panel allots $50M to study gun violence
House Democratic appropriators are allocating $50 million to study gun violence, aiming to accelerate research that had been effectively off-limits at the CDC for more than two decades.
The House Labor-HHS-Education fiscal 2020 funding bill unveiled this afternoon provides $25 million to CDC and $25 million to NIH to research how to prevent firearm injury and death. The funding, which has been sought by gun violence-prevention advocates and some prominent doctors' groups, will likely face resistance from Republicans.
Lawmakers haven't provided funding to study gun violence at the CDC in over two decades, largely because of a spending provision that had a chilling effect on research. A budget deal in March 2018 clarified that the federal government can study gun violence, as long as it doesn't use the research to promote gun control.
Republicans last month said they were wary of providing new money for gun research, claiming Democrats are trying to score political points because the CDC already has the authority to study gun violence.
However, the CDC, which collects data on gun violence injuries, said it's limited in what it can do without more money.
"Dedicated funding from Congress would help CDC to move forward in this work," an agency spokesperson told POLITICO in March.
Addressing gun violence is a priority for House Democrats, who earlier this year passed a bill, H.R. 8 (116), largely along party lines, mandating federal background checks on all gun sales. The issue has received a boost from some doctors , who recently have become more visible advocates for gun control after the NRA scolded them for speaking up about firearm policy.
The House appropriations health subcommittee will mark up the bill Tuesday.
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Another Day in the USA
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2019/may/another-day-in-the-usa
Grass Valley is a small town in the California Sierra Nevadas, and every year the Grass Valley Charter School Foundation holds a fundraising fair, the Blue Marble Jubilee, that celebrates planet Earth with folk music and activities for children, such as making paper butterflies and egg carton caterpillars. This year’s Jubilee was scheduled for 11 May.
Unrelated to Grass Valley – or only seemingly unrelated – there’s yet another cute meme circulating on Twitter: #5JobsIveHad. And fired FBI director James Comey, in an oddly jocular moment, has tweeted in with his five:
The truth-seekers swiftly decoded Comey’s tweet as a message to his troops to instigate another bloodbath: #5JobsIveHad = JIHAD. There will be five acts of jihad, and the first of them is signalled by the first initials of Comey’s jobs: GVCSF, Grass Valley Charter School Foundation. As further evidence, Comey’s tweet was sent at 8.28 a.m., only three minutes after the time the first plane crashed into the Twin Towers on 9/11.
Comey, who lives in Virginia, somehow knew to choose this little family festival in the Sierra Nevadas as a target, but his plan has been thwarted. There will be no Blue Marble Jubilee this year. The organisers, who have been flooded with warnings and offers of protection, have been forced to cancel. As they meekly explained: ‘In the current social and political climate, schools and communities must take into consideration matters never before imagined.’
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2019/may/another-day-in-the-usa
Grass Valley is a small town in the California Sierra Nevadas, and every year the Grass Valley Charter School Foundation holds a fundraising fair, the Blue Marble Jubilee, that celebrates planet Earth with folk music and activities for children, such as making paper butterflies and egg carton caterpillars. This year’s Jubilee was scheduled for 11 May.
Unrelated to Grass Valley – or only seemingly unrelated – there’s yet another cute meme circulating on Twitter: #5JobsIveHad. And fired FBI director James Comey, in an oddly jocular moment, has tweeted in with his five:
Comey is known, in certain corners of the internet, as a primary force in the deep state conspiracy that is attempting to wreak havoc and overthrow the Trump administration. Besides its visible machinations in Washington, it is said to have orchestrated a series of ‘false flag’ operations: the mass shootings and violent neo-Nazi rallies where provocateurs and assassins are paid by George Soros and innocent white nationalists are blamed.
The truth-seekers swiftly decoded Comey’s tweet as a message to his troops to instigate another bloodbath: #5JobsIveHad = JIHAD. There will be five acts of jihad, and the first of them is signalled by the first initials of Comey’s jobs: GVCSF, Grass Valley Charter School Foundation. As further evidence, Comey’s tweet was sent at 8.28 a.m., only three minutes after the time the first plane crashed into the Twin Towers on 9/11.
Comey, who lives in Virginia, somehow knew to choose this little family festival in the Sierra Nevadas as a target, but his plan has been thwarted. There will be no Blue Marble Jubilee this year. The organisers, who have been flooded with warnings and offers of protection, have been forced to cancel. As they meekly explained: ‘In the current social and political climate, schools and communities must take into consideration matters never before imagined.’
Utterly shocked that a dim-whitted religious older white male would start to make decisions about what is best for women in terms of obtaining a morning-after pill should they so choose. The quote below, from the idiot who authored this proposal, says it all:
"I don't know because I'm not smart enough to know what causes abortions and what doesn't. The bill is just written "if it causes an abortion," and people smarter than me can figure that out."
That's insane.
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