told they can t get basic health care services. make no mistake, defunding planned parenthood takes birth control, mammograms, cervical cancer screenings, hiv aid screenings p standard treatment away from low income women. why would she take basic health care away from women and think will be help her with voters. any politician who attacks birth control the way jan brewer has just attacked birth control, she will pay a price at the polls and her party will pay a huge price this november. all right. let s talk more about that. a spokesperson for governor brewer says that she believes the law will be upheld. you have states like north carolina and kansas that have got similar laws that they are facing legal challenges. in the midst of that legal
cut from, any one at all, with any symbolic red dense whatsoever, and you picked specifically the one that caters to women s health? you picked the one that pays for breast cancer and cervical cancer screenings? seriously? this is the latest plank in the so-called war on women. entirely created by my colleagues across the aisle for political gain. aww, aww. congressional republicans, this is not a style issue. the whole war on women thing did not emerge from some democratic attack machine focus group. it s not a baseless but a literal political attack. this came from observation of what you have been doing. this is about policy. it s about gutting women s preventive health care in order to pay for something you didn t
policy concern is into a message. it s like looking through both sides of a telescope. in this case the republicans are convinced that they are doing everything perfect about women. what they don t understand is the democratic and the female critique of them on this issue comes not from something that they are pronouncing wrong or some wrong collar they are waging or whether or not they say nice things about their wives. it comes from an observation of what they are doing in policy. joining us now is steve carnacky. thank you very much for joining us. you re welcome. let s explain this one. congressional republicans are accused of waging war on women. they are very angry about this accusation, so let get rid of breast cancer and cervical cancer screenings. i don t think that republicans are dumb. i think we have different cognitive abilities as liberals and conservatives. how do you defend yourself pounding yourself on the table
thousands of screenings for breast cancer and cervical cancer. really you guys. right when john mccain is giving his whole you could have picked any government program to cut from. you picked sp eed specifically that pays for breast cancer and cervical cancer screenings. seriously. this is the latest plank in the so-called war on women. entirely created by my colleagues across the aisle for political gain. aww, awww.รง congressional republicans, this is not a style issue. the whole war on women thing did not emerge from some democratic attack machine focus group. it s not a baseless but a
education with our increases in the pell grants. that s good news. another example, health reform. it s been in the news lately. because of the health reform law that we passed, women finally have more power to make their choices about their health care. last year [ applause ] last year more than 20 million women received expanded access to prevented services like mammograms and cervical cancer screenings at no additional cost. nearly 2 million [ applause ] nearly 2 million women enrolled in medicare received a 50% discount on the medicine that they need. over 1 million more young women are insured because they can now stay on their parents plan. later this year, women will