{"id":182931,"date":"2015-05-03T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T23:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/05\/03\/some-people-use-the-handmaidens-tale-as-a-manual\/"},"modified":"2015-05-03T18:42:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T23:42:00","slug":"some-people-use-the-handmaidens-tale-as-a-manual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/05\/03\/some-people-use-the-handmaidens-tale-as-a-manual\/","title":{"rendered":"Some People Use The Handmaiden&#8217;s Tale as a Manual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2015\/05\/hobby-lobby-on-steroids-house-votes-to-overturn-dc-law-so-employers-can-fire-women-for-using-birth-control\/\">seem to be overwhelmingly Republicans<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Late Thursday night, the House of Representatives voted in favor of \u201cH.J.Res. 43: Disapproving the action of the District of Columbia Council in approving the Reproductive Health Non-Discrimination Amendment Act of 2014.\u201d If enacted, the legislation would make using employer-based health insurance for in vitro fertilization or birth control pills a fireable offense in Washington, D.C. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Planned Parenthood has been mobilizing its network against the bill. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.plannedparenthoodaction.org\/elections-politics\/blog\/anti-womens-health-politicians-congress-are-trying-attack-dc-home-rule-and-womens-reproductive-rights\/\">Your boss shouldn\u2019t be able to fire you for using birth control<\/a>,\u201d the organization states. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Also on the floor last night, Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) dubbed H.J.Res. 43 \u201cHobby Lobby on steroids,\u201d Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) called for D.C. statehood from the house floor, and numerous Republicans defended \u201creligious freedom.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">With support from 225 Republicans and 3 Democrats, the U.S. Congress moved to overturn a democratically enacted law in the District of Columbia for the first time in more than 20 years.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As an FYI, the Democrats voting for this are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dan Lipinski (IL-3)<\/li>\n<li>Henry Cuellar (TX-28)<\/li>\n<li>Colin Peterson (MN-7)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The distinguished gentleman from Minnesota is one of the founders of the Blue Dogs, Cuellar was Rick Perry&#8217;s and George W. Bush&#8217;s &#8220;Democrat&#8221; BFF, and Dan Lipinski is a right wing nut-job who got his job by nepotism when the Illinois Democratic party cleared the primary for him.<\/p>\n<p>These are folks that the Democrats would be better off without, even if these seats were taken by Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>They all need aggressive primary challenges, because there needs to be a certain level of party discipline, even in the Democratic party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And they seem to be overwhelmingly Republicans: Late Thursday night, the House of Representatives voted in favor of \u201cH.J.Res. 43: Disapproving the action of the District of Columbia Council in approving the Reproductive Health Non-Discrimination Amendment Act of 2014.\u201d If enacted, the legislation would make using employer-based health insurance for in vitro fertilization or birth &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123,998,969,1051,1020,1122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-congress","category-evil","category-hypocrisy","category-legislation","category-reproductive-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}