Senator Patty Murray on women in power

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They called it the Year of the Woman. In 1992, four women were elected to the U.S. Senate —  fueled in part by outrage at the all-male Senate panel that had grilled Anita Hill.  Patty Murray of Washington state, famously denigrated as just a “mom in tennis shoes,” was one of them. In 2012, that record was broken thanks to Murray, who ran the Democrats’ campaign operation, kept the Senate under the party’s control against all odds, and brought the the total number of women in the chamber to 20. It wasn’t the only time she represented for other women: In 2011, when budget negotiations threatened to shut the government down and House Republicans demanded that Planned Parenthood be defunded, Murray recalled to The Washington Post, “I walked in, and I was literally the only woman … They said: ‘We’re all done except the House wants one last concession. They want us to give on that and we’re done.’ And I said: ‘Not on my watch. Absolutely not on my watch.’”

That same year, conservative activist Grover Norquist sneered of Murray, “The lady from Washington doesn’t do budgets.” She proved him wrong.

Last week, Murray was in the Supreme Court to hear the arguments in the Hobby Lobby case, in which for-profit corporations are seeking to opt-out of covering birth control on their employee health plans. She talked to msnbc about Clarence Thomas, watching the women on the Court, and the continuing attacks on reproductive rights.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/senator-patty-murray-talks-women-and-politics?cid=sm_twitter

[mercuryblues]

1. I hate them

the hatred for all things related to a woman's control over her own body has been bubbling under the surface for a lot longer than the last ten years.

Restriction that were and now even more draconian restrictions place a woman's health at risk.

The no federal funds for abortion law is a biggie. A friend's daughter had her embryo died at 6-8 weeks. She did not spontaneous abort. She had the good fortune of her husband being in the military. Which meant her medically induced abortion approval had to go up the chain of command. That would take about 2 weeks. In the meantime she was put at risk for severe infections that may have left her sterile or killed her. Her mother gave her the money to go to planned parenthood ASAp. I firmly believe that is the reason that she was able to have another child a little over a year later.

They are beneath contempt, wrapped in their bible.

http://mypage.direct.ca/w/writer/anti-tales.html

"I've had several cases over the years in which the anti-abortion patient had rationalized in one way or another that her case was the only exception, but the one that really made an impression was the college senior who was the president of her campus Right-to-Life organization, meaning that she had worked very hard in that organization for several years. As I was completing her procedure, I asked what she planned to do about her high office in the RTL organization. Her response was a wide-eyed, 'You're not going to tell them, are you!?' When assured that I was not, she breathed a sigh of relief, explaining how important that position was to her and how she wouldn't want this to interfere with it." (Physician, Texas)