Keep them Quiet

And keep them pregnant.  Last week the GOP "leaders" at the House held an all-male hearing on contraception.  This was seen by some as a continuing battle that the GOP is waging on women.  "Today, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi announced Democrats will hold a House hearing Thursday on the issue of contraception and women’s health, and the key witness will be the woman the Democrats tried to get on Issa’s panel to testify, but who was refused." (TheNewCivilRightsMovement.com)  But the GOP still wants to keep it quiet.

The House Administration Committee, chaired by Rep. Dan Lungren, R-Calif, has issued a decree that there will be no public video or recording made of Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke’s testimony - who was to testify that about a classmate who lost an ovary because of a condition that causes ovarian cysts - which is treatable by birth control, but not covered by the Catholic-Church backed University.  The "black-out" is unprecedented and leads some to believe that the House Republican leadership is still trying to silence women on women's health.

But perhaps it is time to turn the tables.  "A group of female Democratic legislators in the Georgia House of Representatives has proposed a bill that would ban men from seeking vasectomies." "Thousands of children are deprived of birth in this state every year because of the lack of state regulation over vasectomies," said bill author Yasmin Neal.  (HuffingtonPost.com)

The male counterparts in Georgia, however, don't think it is funny.  They want to push through a bill that seeks to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, instead of the current 24 weeks or after the 2nd trimester.

So... passing male based health laws is bad -and must be a joke, but passing female based ones is perfectly within the rights of the male legislators.


Maybe those women out there ought to just stop having sex with those men.  Maybe then the men will keep their noses out of what ain't their business.