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Politics : Mainstream Politics and Economics
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To: koan who wrote (15278)4/18/2012 12:37:56 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 85487
 
The Republician's are trying to outlaw contraception in many places

Nonsense.

and get rid of planned parenhood

Removing federal funding, doesn't equal getting rid of it.

and they voted against the lilly Leadbetter act

Which was a wise act. Allowing lawsuits decades later of disparate pay causes a lot more harm than benefit.

and pass laws ordering vaginal probe ultra sounds women have to watch

No such law was passed, and the Republicans stopped pushing for it. Many who initially supported it didn't realize that it would involve probing of any sort, they thought they where only requiring unltrasounds of the uninvasive type that can be done later in pregnancy.

And importantly the bill didn't require ultrasounds, the way the PPACA requires health insurance, it required ultrasounds in order to get permission to have your unborn child killed.
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