Where Are the Women?
By Steve Kinsman, 16th Feb 2012 | Follow this author
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Why is it that men are always deciding on health and reproductive issues of women?
Where are the women?
If, as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words, nothing underscores that truth better than the picture which accompanies this article. At a Congressional hearing yesterday about the reproductive health of women, chairman Darrel Issa, Republican of California, unbelievably, allowed no women to be present, stating "the subject at hand is not women's healthcare or contraception but 'freedom of religion.'" Issa titled the hearing "Lines crossed: Separation of Church and State. Has the Obama Administration Trampled on Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Conscience?"
How is it that women's issues are always decided by men? If men could get pregnant, contraception would be free. Condoms and birth control pills and devices would be issued free. If men got pregnant, abortion would be free on demand.
Photo from commondreams.org
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16th Feb 2012 (#)
If men could have babies there would be no children in the world haha! ouch the pain.
It is wrong woman issues should be solved by woman.
But to some men us woman are stupid, and we know nothing! Its still a mans world out there but it shouldn't be.
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17th Feb 2012 (#)
Maybe we could solve the overpopulation problem if men got pregnant. Thanks for you much appreciated comment krrymarie.
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16th Feb 2012 (#)
men and women have always been equal.....
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17th Feb 2012 (#)
I think not - women are smarter and morein touch with their feelings. Thanks, cowboynextdoor.
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17th Feb 2012 (#)
I think so many men in power have the 'God Complex' Steve.. You see the same in the church when women wanted to be ordained..How can we ever move forward with powerful men's attitudes still stuck in the past?
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17th Feb 2012 (#)
See my article in wikinuit: "It's Past Time to Dismantle the Patriarchy". Thanks Bev.
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17th Feb 2012 (#)
:-)
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17th Feb 2012 (#)
I admire you for confronting issues like this head on, Steve. Thanks for sharing.
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18th Feb 2012 (#)
Thank you Buzz.
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17th Feb 2012 (#)
We look forward to......
This is ok for a change.
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18th Feb 2012 (#)
o.k? - No women allowed at a hearing on womens's issues. Beg to differ, but thanks for your comment jayababy.
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18th Feb 2012 (#)
An excellent article on a tough subject Steve. Here in Canada in the poorer parts of my community a Nurse Practitioner gives out birth control for both men and women for free for those without $. Is she busy. Sadly usually not, as the welfare system is VERY generous here.
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18th Feb 2012 (#)
Canadians are far moere compassionate than we are in America, where it's dog eat dog. Thanks Melissa.
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18th Feb 2012 (#)
Thanks for highlighting issues that are controversial but necessary to tackle head-on. You are one of a kind indeed, Steve! siva
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18th Feb 2012 (#)
Thank you Siva. I appreciate that.
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20th Feb 2012 (#)
You "throw your hat in", Steve, and I am left floundering, trying to find the answer. What was the question?
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20th Feb 2012 (#)
Why no women allowed at a hearing abouit women?
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21st Feb 2012 (#)
O.K. Probably because women are too emotional about this. There might well be crying, accusations, hopefully just verbal attacks. The same reason I would not get on a plane to England if I found out the pilot was a woman.
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21st Feb 2012 (#)
What? I wouild trust a woman pilot over a man anytime. Men have to prove their macho, and that scares me when I get on a plane. Thanks for commenting Ivyevelyn.
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