Bera: OSE Should Renouce Akin-Like Extreme, Anti-Women Positions
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On Thursday, notoriously anti-women Congressman Todd Akin defended his 2012 "legitimate rape" comments, but it isn't just Akin with dangerous, radical views on women's health. Akin's colleague, former Congressman Doug Ose, voted with Akin for a radical measure that would define a fetus as a separate legal person, potentially undermining women's rights to birth control and abortion. Ose is running for Congress against Dr. Ami Bera in California's 7th Congressional district.
"As a doctor, I know that health care decisions should be made between a woman and her doctor, not by politicians," said Bera. "But from his silence on the recent outrageous Hobby Lobby ruling, to his anti-women votes with Todd Akin while in Congress, Congressman Ose has shown he has dangerous views on women's health that are out of touch with Sacramento County voters. He should renounce his support of the radical Akin bill and commit to protecting women's access to birth control"
In February 2004, Ose voted in favor of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (H.R. 1997). The bill sought to make it possible to prosecute attacks on a pregnant mother and her fetus separately, and defined a fetus as a separate legal person from the moment of conception. The bill passed the House, 254-163, and was signed into law by President Bush. Akin, who in 2012 justified his extreme anti-choice positions by declaring that "legitimate rape" rarely results in pregnancy, led the debate on the House floor in favor of the bill and voted for the legislation.
Dr. Ami Bera represents Sacramento County in Congress. He's working to make Congress a place for service and fighting to rebuild an economy that works for middle class families. As a leader of the No Labels' Problem Solvers, Bera is leading the charge to find bipartisan solutions to our nation's challenges, and worked to pass the No Budget No Pay Act, which says if members of Congress don't pass a budget, they don't get paid. He and his wife Janine live in Elk Grove with their daughter Sydra.
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