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Perform abortions. 129 female democrats in the senate, well, they have had enough. in a letter to speaker boehner, they wrote, "its time for you to put up an end tight tax on womens health care and to work with the senate to get back to the american peoples top priority, creating jobs and boosting our economy." the war on womens health care is taking place really all over the country, when you look at it at every level of government. last year this is an astounding number, last year, more than 1...

I want to play this clip from i will bill oreilly, he said this today about womens contraception being available through title x funding. here it is. >> its in motion now that if you need birth control and you go to a federal clinic, you get it. thats under title x of the public health act, all right? so there really isnt any -- any problem, you can get it. >> katrina, whats wrong with that? >> well, first of all, the four republican candidates running for president want to eliminate title x. ti...

Guess how the republicans in counsel operated the occasion. they debated a bill to restrict abortion rights for women. its yet another bill criminalizing doctors who perform abortions. 12 female democrats in the senate, well, they have had enough. in a letter to speaker boehner, they wrote, "its time for you to put up an end tight tax on womens health care and to work with the senate to get back to the american peoples top priority, creating jobs and boosting our economy." the war on womens heal...

>> its in motion now that if you need birth control and you go to a federal clinic, you get it. thats under title x of the public health act, all right? so there really isnt any -- any problem, you can get it. >> katrina, whats wrong with that? >> well, first of all, the four republican candidates running for president want to eliminate title x. title x is mostly used, ed, for cervical breast cancer screening, for hiv and other sexually transmitted diseases. >> for low-income women. >> for low-i...

On family planning funds. new hampshire prevented mapped parenthood from receiving title x funding. this goes back to 1970, title x. today in atlanta, eight women in the georgia senate walked out of the chamber in protest as republicans passed restrictions on contraceptive funding and abortion services. here come the right-wing shock troops marching, matching, marching and women are on the bulls eye target. >> it is not just democratic lawmakers who are fed up. new york state assemblywoman there...

From having to follow laws like this. their rules will exempt churches, which eight states dont do. they are super sensitive to religious institutions. their rules are pre sis lie what was proposed biolimb pea yeah snowe and other republicans in 2001 but yet denounced as liberal abombination. anyone who disagrees with republican position on this toy day, according to the folks at fox, should never have been born at all. >> to get it started i thought we would also start with the panelist who cou...

Mr. president, some watching us today, and we know the whole world is watching us today, may be asking why im talking about womens health when the question before us is the budget of the biggest economy on theç planet earth. some may ask why were talking about the smallest corner of planet earth. with a government shutdown looming not weeks away or days away, but hours away, why are we talking about whether women can keep getting something as simple and non-controversial as a cancer screening....