republican candidates on the campaign trail continue to done the question about what do they have for women voters in this country? get your cell phones out, i want to know what you think, took radio for a moment. tonight s question, would you rather listen to dead air or rush limbaugh? text a for dead air. text b for rush limbaugh, 622639, go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com. joining me tonight is congresswoman jan schakowsky of illinois. great to have you with us, congresswoman. when you look at the number of bills that are being introduced at a state level and you see what your colleagues on the other side of the aisle are talking about, where their focus is, what s happening here? well, you know, 135 of those bills actually were passed into law last year. about 70% of them to limit a woman s right to an abortion. so you know, happy international women s day. the republicans are celebrating
president richard nixon and senior george bush. since 1970. since 1970. this is the bulwark, this is the balance ast that has helped low-income women. it s crazy to me that in this year, we are having a debate about contraception, an issue which should have been resolved but also we are witnessing a targeting of not only women but low-income women in an attempt to roll back access to health care. what do you make of the number? i was told 1100 bills on states across the country. i was astounded at that number. this has been you know, what we are seeing right now is a conversation this country has needed to have. unfortunately, it is happening with terrible gop overreach with a party that wants to roll back time and roll back women s access to health care but this has been going on. will they pay a price for it politically? they will pay a price because the framing work, so to speak, shows a majority, not just women, a majority of people see this as about women s health, n
this is the bulwark, this is the ballast that has helped low-income women. it s crazy to me that in this year, we are having a debate about contraception, an issue which should have been resolved but also we are witnessing a targeting of not only women but low-income women in an attempt to roll back access to health care. what do you make of the number? i was told 1100 bills on states across the country. i was astounded at that number. this has been you know, what we are seeing right now is a conversation this country has needed to have. unfortunately, it is happening with terrible gop overreach with a party that wants to roll back time and roll back women s access to health care but this has been going on. will they pay a price for it politically? they will pay a price because the framing work, so to speak, shows a majority, not just women, a majority of people see this as about women s health, not religious liberty. and they see the republicans as freedom limiters. and i th
thanks for watching. today is international women s day. guess how the republicans in counsel operated the occasion. they debated a bill to restrict abortion rights for women. it s yet another bill criminalizing doctors who perform abortions. 129 female democrats in the senate, well, they have had enough n a letter to speaker boehner, they wrote, it s time for you to put up an end tight tax on women s health care and to work with the senate to get back to the american people s top priority, creating jobs and boosting our economy. the war on women s 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 1100 reproductive health restrictions were introduced in all 50 states, restrictions to abortion rights skyrocketed to record levels in 2011. nine states, count them, nine states voted to reduce funding for family planning programs. texas reduced its reproductive health budg
how do you think this is going to be received? actually, it s had a great reception. it has gone viral. it led to all sorts of jokes about virginia and what the republicans were trying to do to women. so, the bill, even though we didn t have the votes to defeat the bill in the first place you can place, the governor was forced to modify the bill, it has passed but no longer requires transvaginal probes. it s still a terrible bill, but it s not as bad as it would have been. representative cassidy, what reaction have you gotten from your bill in illinois, video of persistent erection treatment. i understand it shows exactly what men are going to go through if they have an erection more than four hours.