On the Senate floor yesterday, Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) railed against gender discrimination by insurance companies, citing an example of a women who was refused coverage unless she agreed to sterilization. Mikulski said, “I thought that’s what they did in Nazi Germany, or in the old Communist China.”Mikulski begins by voicing her opposition to the Nelson abortion amendment , and emphasizing her belief that “health care reform is the most important social justice vote that we will cast in this decade.”
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