House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) slammed Republicans for holding a nearly all-male hearing Thursday about the White House’s birth-control mandate while Democratic women on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee staged a walk-out.
While a second panel included two women, both of whom were opposed to a mandate in the healthcare law requiring birth control be included in insurance plans, it was images of the first, all-male panel that spread like wildfire through Twitter and liberal blogs.
Democrats quickly pounced.
"Imagine they're having a panel on women's health, and they don't have any women on the panel — duh!" Pelosi said during a press briefing in the Capitol. "What is it that men don't understand about women's health and how central the issue of family planning is to that?”
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