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Female Pols Walk Out on Birth-Control Hearing

Carolyn Maloney, Eleanor Norton Holmes ask, Where are the women?

By John Johnson,  Newser Staff

Posted Feb 16, 2012 1:40 PM CST

(Newser) – Two female lawmakers made a point today on Capitol Hill: In a debate concerning birth control, let some women talk. Carolyn Maloney and Eleanor Holmes Norton, both Democrats, walked out of Darrell Issa's hearing on contraceptive coverage because all five witnesses were men, including...   Read full story »

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contraception • women's health • birth control • contraceptive • Darrell Issa • Carolyn Maloney • Eleanor Holmes Norton

 
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