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Authors, sign in!According to Jezebel, "Yesterday's health care summit may have featured only four women, but one of them, Representative Louise Slaughter, managed to make a pretty big impression."
She got attention yesterday for talking about a constituent of hers who was forced to wear her dead sister's dentures because she couldn't afford her own, but the rest of her remarks are also worth attention, including these...
I believe that all Americans should be treated the same. Let me give you a little history on that. Eight states have declared that domestic violence is a pre-existing condition on the grounds, I assume, that if you're unlucky enough to get yourself beat up once, you might go around and do it again. 48% is the higher cost for women who, in many cases, have to go buy their own insurance. Believe you me, that is really discriminatory. In 1991, women were not included in any of the trials at the NIH because we had hormones. It wasn't until we had a critical mass of women here [Congress] that we said, "This will not do for more than half the population of the United States who pay taxes." That we made certain that diseases like osteoporosis, mainly a women's disease, cervical cancer, only a women's disease, uterine cancer and others were really looked at. Up to that point, 1991, all research at the Institutes of Health were done on white males. Now think about that for a minute if you will. We couldn't do that because we just said, "Now, kindly stop doing that." It took legislation.
As everyone knows, not everyone was happy about Slaughter's comment. One Rush Limbaugh, didn't have anything nice to say about Louise or her dead friend's sisters dentures....
LIMBAUGH: You know I'm getting so many people, this Louise Slaughter comment on the dentures? I'm getting so many people, this is big, I mean, that gets a one-time mention for a laugh, but there are people out there that think this is huge because it's so stupid. I mean for example, well what's wrong with using a dead person's teeth? Aren't the Democrats big into recycling? Save the planet? And so what? So if you don't have any teeth, so what? What's applesauce for? Isn't that why they make applesauce?My Thoughts...
Thank you Mrs. Slaughter for standing up for women and human rights. We applaud you! Limbaugh seriously needs to get his life together! No, I'm serious.
What are your thoughts?
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Published March 1, 2010 by Tatiana McKinney |
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Comments (2)
Tatiana, don't you think we need to start a movement to put Rush Limbaugh and Sara Palin on a ticket for President. We could just flip a coin to choose which one gets the top billing!
Neither one of them are capable of promoting anything of substance.
I listened to nearly all of the Health Care Summit. Rep. Louise Slaughter said more in her 4 minutes that made sense than either Rush or Sarah have said in the last year. Rep. Slaughter's comments were brief and to the point.
Posted by Ken Poland
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March 1, 2010 8:20 PM
Posted on March 1, 2010 20:20
hahaha. I agree. She really told them what she felt and it was articulate and to the point. Rush Limbaugh and Sara Palin really annoy me. It's like they talk just to be heard. #Epicfail
Posted by Tatiana McKinney
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March 3, 2010 1:17 PM
Posted on March 3, 2010 13:17