Paul Ryan: Contraception Mandate 'Will Be Gone' On 'Day 1'

[trailmonkee]

Source: Huffington Post

GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan sees no place for the Obama Administration's contraception mandate.

At a Saturday campaign event in Orlando, Fla., the Associated Press reports that Ryan was asked about whether he would press Vice President and fellow Catholic Joe Biden on his views in relation to the 2012 Democratic Party platform.

Ryan's answer turned straight to the piece of Obamacare providing birth control access. He vowed to remove that requirement for insurance providers, including Catholic hospitals and universities, on "day one."

"It will be gone," Ryan told onlookers at the University of Central Florida. "I can guarantee you that."

Back on February 10, Ryan offered similar criticisms of Obama's contraception plan. In a statement released on his website, the Wisconsin congressman deemed it an "affront to religious liberty."


Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/22/paul-ryan-obama-contraception-mandate_n_1906424.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

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This guy is really starting to piss me off....

[riverbendviewgal]

1. How does that happen if

he has not control of the House or senate?

[SaveAmerica]

13. 'Day 1' is the name of their Alternate Universe

Where Romney is brown and Ryan tells the truth and they wake up DA WINNAS on November 7!!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Keep talking, Paul......pretty soon everyone will be pissed off at you.

And then you wouldn't be able to win a post for dog catcher.

[SoapBox]

16. Agreed.

Mittens and Coupon Care Man need to talk, talk and talk some more.

And hopefully take the advice of McQuiter Palin and "go rogue"...translation, talk batshit crazy.

[DemKittyNC]

3. Of all the problems

we are facing in America right now... THIS is what they will tackle first??? You got to be fucking kidding me?

[smirkymonkey]

35. +1000

[Andy823]

4. So let me see now

The VP is going to get rid of the contraception mandate on day one, has he OK'd this with Romney, you know the guy who would be "president" if they actually won the race? Is this something else now that Romney will have to back peddle on tomorrow?

[kardonb]

17. latest

"back pedal" (like brake on an older bike ) . Peddle is selling something .

[BlueStreak]

25. I think "back peddle" is a wonderful way to put it.

Even if it was by accident.

[jmowreader]

28. It looks better the other way

They're trying to peddle some shit that will put us back to 1964--before Griswold v. Connecticut was decided.

[ladym55]

5. Wait, wait

I thought they were repealing ALL of Obamacare on the first day! Did I miss something?

[Skittles]

10. the anti-women parts are ESPECIALLY appealing as red meat for sanctimonious conservatives

aw yeah

[bjobotts]

39. Watching Ryan's open mouth how could

anyone find this condescending lap dog attractive. The more you hear him the uglier he becomes. Only way Nit and Lyin could win is by suppressing the vote and stealing the election.

(If we all survive Dec.21, 2012 that is)

[freshwest]

24. Obamacare has a clause that women will not be discriminated against as they have been.

Part of Obamacare increased Medicaid payments and mandated that providers such as Planned Parenthood would not be banned by states.

Romney and Ryan woujld get rid of Obamacare, go back to the death panels by for profit insurance carriers, denying pre-existing conditions and put a cap on benefits even if people die. Yet Lyin' Ryan is busily diverting seniors in FL by using the Sarah Palin federal death panel scare.

Right now, GOP legtislators deny women equal access to insurance because they are asking for birth control, etc. in states where they have the majority. Those are aspects of the ACA that Romney can stop on Day One, and that Ryan has defunded in Congress already and Obama had to work around.

GOP governors have blocked Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood because it is a joint state and federal run program. To keep essential healthcare for women who couldn't afford it elsehwere, Obama provided the money through Title IX:

Title IX is a portion of the Education Amendments of 1972, Public Law No. 92-318, 86 Stat. 235 (June 23, 1972), codified at 20 U.S.C. sections 1681 through 1688, U.S. legislation also identified by the name of its principal author as the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act.

It states (in part) that...

No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_9

Because of Republican Congressional obstruction and radical GOP governors, Obama had to take that step despite the passage of the ACA. AFAIK, he shifted available funding to wellness care for women under Title IX.

So whoever is POTUS can make this happen or not, because of the flexiblity built into the ACA allowing states to refuse to participate. Although someone else may remember the law better, there are provisions for exchanges, but the same GOP governors have refused to set them up.

It is imperative that Romney not get into office. I believe Ryan is correct there.

[Indpndnt]

40. Shhhh!

Reality confuses him. Confuses his base even more.

[nc4bo]

6. Time to recycle those plastic baby dolls and dump them on Romney and Ryan's doorstep.

I hope a majority of women are paying close attention to what Ryan and Romney say during these stumps.

[tomm2thumbs]

7. His nasal screeching and impish face are birth control enough for the entire country!!!

bar none

[SaveAmerica]

8. #notpayingattention

[Skittles]

9. he is a smarmy little bastard

[zellie]

41. Those were my exact thoughts.

nt

[Zoeisright]

11. You aren't going to get a "Day 1", you piece of shit.

I hate his fucking ugly mean stupid guts.

[smirkymonkey]

37. I completely agree with every word you have typed.

He makes me sick.

[jonesgirl]

12. He's delusional.

[Grassy Knoll]

14. This fuck will be a NO TERM RUNNING MATE.....

Like his evil twin sister, and then bitch to fox for 4 years.

[jonesgirl]

15. Okay Ryan. WE GET IT!! You're more concerned about the insurance providers than the people.

[jmowreader]

18. Paul Ryan will be gone on November 7 at 12:01 am

He WILL lose the VP bid and it wouldn't surprise me if he also lost his House reelection campaign.

[aquart]

19. A vote for ANY Republican is a vote against ALL women.

[Zambero]

20. WHAT Day One?

Ryan's words drive yet another nail in the R&R coffin.

[vharris]

21. THANK GOD

Of all of the problems we have in America right now, thank god Ryan would tackle this first. Let's rebuild our country one impregnated womb at a time. And remember, when unplanned pregnancy in a bad situation does occur, no abortion. And then, when a child is born into poverty, no welfare. God bless America.

[smirkymonkey]

38. Thanks vharrs and welcome to DU!

[jonesgirl]

22. I'm confused...

is he running for VP of USA or a CEO? I could have sworn his job responsibility as VP is to represent the PEOPLE. Not unless corporations are people now.

[bhikkhu]

23. The pope will be so pleased

the rest of us, less so.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

26. Little smirking Taliban asshole.

If we play our cards right, that little maggot won't get a 'Day 1' - unless it's a "Day 1" of being UNEMPLOYED.

[Deep13]

27. Why is Ryan making Obama ads? nt

[oldsarge54]

29. Weirder and weirder

And out in yahoo land, the right wing consensus still is that contraception was introduced into the election as a decoy by Obama to distract from the economy. Could it be that Ryan is trying to distract from the appalling 47% comments from the tickets' header?

Actually, I have a problem with the whole argument. Since when did an institution have a religion? I mean a hospital may be funded and run by a religion, but does that hospital, in and of itself, have a religion? Granted, the eat more chicken folks are trying to establish that corporations, like people, have a religion, but really?

For that matter, for something as universal as healthcare, why should the religion of the employer set the benefits of the employee on federally mandated benefits? Could a firm run by Jehovah Witnesses or Christian Scientists deny letting their employee. What if some big family firm decides to convert to a "no medical" sect? Does that mean thousands of employees have no medical benefits at all.

Republican logic is scary. When they talk about freedom, it usually means the employers spend less on their employees.

[Samjm]

33. Institutions are people too

Well, if corporations are people, then institutions are people too right? And people can have a religion.....

[oldsarge54]

34. well

That does seem to be the Republican logic. Too bad corporations cannot get a soul or a conscience.

[lunatica]

30. My reaction to him is getting more and more visceral

I get a real feeling of disgust even looking at him now. He has a twisted soul diseased with so much hatred of women.

[QUALITYCONTRoll]

31. Space, death panels and PowerPoint by Lying Ryan.....

Space, death panels and PowerPoint by Lying Ryan.....


Ooh, ooh, ooh..................

Ooh, ooh..................

Somewhere over the rainbow..................

Way up high… ..................

a PowerPoint presentation you will find..................



Way up high..................

Someday I'll wish upon a star..................

Wake up where the clouds are far behind me..................

Where trouble starts..................

and old people drop dead like flies ..................


High above the chimney tops..................
That's where you'll find the gdp flying high....................


Ooo ooo ooo..................
Ooo ooo ooo..................
Ooo, ah ah..................

[goclark]

32. Is he running for President ~ Did Rmoney

say "day one" first?

What is wrong with these clowns!

[sendero]

36. Ryan is as delusional..

... as his mentor Ayn.

There isn't going to BE a Day One for you Paul, the margin is going to be too big for even election fraud to win it you.

[Shitty Mitty]

42. Catholic hospitals?

Do they use actual technology or do they just sit around praying for healing?