GOP Chair: Attack on women’s health care rights “promotes job creation”
January 15, 2014
Earlier today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) defended the committee's attack on women's health care rights, saying it "promotes job creation." Here's the full quote:
Chairman Goodlatte: It's very much the case that those of us in the Majority support this legislation because it is the morally right thing to do, but it is also very, very true that having a growing population and new children brought into the world is not harmful to job creation. It very much promotes job creation for all of the care and services and so on, that needs to be provided by a lot of people to raise children.
Rep. Slaughter and Rep. DeGette, co-chairs of the Pro-Choice Caucus, responded:
"After years of stalling, Congressional Republicans have finally released their jobs plan: attacking women's health," Reps. Slaughter and DeGette said. "To paraphrase our old friend, Rep. Barney Frank, Republicans in Washington believe that life begins at conception but ends at birth – they want to eliminate contraception and abortion, but won't support early childhood education like Head Start or universal Pre-K, pay equity for single mothers, affordable child care, or SNAP benefits. It's time to stop attacking women's health and start paying attention to the economic issues that Americans really care about."
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