{"id":22531,"date":"2017-06-22T03:12:38","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T03:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22531"},"modified":"2017-06-22T03:14:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T03:14:22","slug":"13-men-writing-major-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22531","title":{"rendered":"13 men writing major legislation — affecting women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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There’s a certain sense of astonishment at this bit of news.<\/p>\n

Thirteen members of the U.S. Senate have written a draft of a bill that affects one-sixth of the nation’s gross domestic product.<\/p>\n

They’re all Republicans; no Democrats are allowed.<\/p>\n

They’re all men.<\/p>\n

And here’s the astonishing part of it: The draft legislation seeks to eliminate all federal funding for Planned Parenthood, a leading provider of health care services for women<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Where are the women of the Senate? Why are none of them working on this bill?<\/p>\n

It’s like the Senate has become a boys’ club. I am now waiting for the sign on the conference room door that tells us “No girls allowed.”<\/em><\/p>\n

This is how you produce legislation affecting such a huge portion of the national economy? This is how the Senate Republican leadership is developing a bill that seeks to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n

It’s un-democratic. It’s un-American.<\/p>\n

If you’re going to craft legislation that has a tangible impact on more than half of the nation’s population, it should be incumbent on lawmakers to include members of that demographic — the women of this nation — in putting it together.<\/p>\n\n

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There’s a certain sense of astonishment at this bit of news. Thirteen members of the U.S. Senate have written a draft of a bill that affects one-sixth of the nation’s gross domestic product. They’re all Republicans; no Democrats are allowed. They’re all men. And here’s the astonishing part of it: The draft legislation seeks to … Continue reading 13 men writing major legislation — affecting women<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[164,1941,3609,5051],"class_list":["post-22531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-affordable-care-act","tag-gop","tag-planned-parenthood","tag-us-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22531"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22536,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22531\/revisions\/22536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}