i think these are the kinds of issues that people reflect inwardly on and think of their own conscience and where they want to be. you made an interesting point. the health care bill was transformational in terms of women s health. you might recall that some of the same people today are the same people back then who were willing to jettison health care over the issue of abortion. let s focus on this effort. health care bill transformational and the services provided for women. no more discrimination based on pre-existing conditions, whether it be a c-section or domestic violence. no more paying 48% more for health care insurance because just you are a woman. giving that we pass that and it is in law, what health and human services did, they said we re not going to make a decision about that essential benefit pack anl. the institute of medicine, a research effort laid the things out, including counseling, screening for cancer, cervical
victory speech intruded on the last segment of our show where i planned to interview chris perry and sandy steer one of the two couples who filed the historic case that overturned california s proposition 8 yesterday, the law that bans same-sex marriage in california. tonight, we have more good news on the marriage equality front, just three hours ago, the washington state legislature approved a marriage equality bill making it the seventh state to move in to the 21st century. washington governor chris gregory plan chris greg wa plans to sign the bill in to law next week. here s the interview with the triumphant california couple, chris perry and sandy steer. congratulations. how does this feel? this is an amazing, i think, victory in a federal court over a state issue like this. well, absolutely a momentous day for us. this challenge to the
like that. they would, however, say to that hospital you have got to treat your employees consistent with the law. you have to give them workman s compensation. you have to an example could be you could have a devout catholic that would say that s okay. i m a devout catholic. i m a janitor here you don t have to pay me when i come in ten extra hours and labor law comes in and says. you have to pay him and you have to give him health insurance and workmans compensation. it sounds like the case would have trouble getting up there. i think this case would have trouble gotting to the court. this isn t an election year and people are looking to the election issues. we are sitting in new york right now. new york has had this law. religion isn t threatened.
how did it come to bethat in the discussions in the white house that we ended up at this particular highly politicized intersection that we see now? was the president, in effect, warned this kind of argument would be coming? i m not going to get in to discussions with the president and what he was or wasn t told. how this protection for women came in to being is because the health care law required for the first time ever preventative services for women to be covered by insurance companies. according to, you know, medical experts and scientists, cotra sepgs was a critical piece of those preventative services. so, by law, we had to require insurance companies to cover it with no cost sharing for women no out of pocket costs. in crafting this proposal, special attention was paid to a church exclusion. many of these states have the same exclusion.
and sandy steer one of the two couples who filed the historic case that overturned california s proposition 8 yesterday, the law that bans same-sex marriage in california. tonight, we have more good news on the marriage equality front, just three hours ago, the washington state legislature approved a marriage equality bill making it the seventh state to move in to the 21st century. washington governor chris gregory plan chris greg wa plans to sign the bill in to law next week. here s the interview with the triumphant california couple, chris perry and sandy steer. congratulations. how does this feel? this is an amazing, i think, victory in a federal court over a state issue like this. well, absolutely a momentous day for us. this challenge to the propositioning 8 has taken almost three years now, three years we haven t been able to