The Reproductive Healthcare Leave Act (H.R. 8158) — the flagship bill — would provide up to 12 days of paid leave per year for reproductive health needs, including severe menstrual pain, abortions, menopause symptoms, miscarriages, biopsies, vasectomies and more. The "H.E.R." Agenda also includes studies regarding gynecological pain management and Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder awareness.

"No one should have to choose between their paycheck and their health to be able to manage that kind of incredible pain," Tlaib said during the press conference.
Woman holding her stomach in pain while sitting on a sofa.

The paid leave bill would require employers to provide 12 days of paid leave each year for reproductive health issues.

DEMOCRATS REVOLT OVER 'BIOLOGICAL' WORDING IN WOMEN'S HISTORY MUSEUM BILL

Ansari, the youngest woman in Congress, ties the bill to her own period pain, telling TIME in an article published on Sunday that she once woke up the floor of her "local bodega, drenched in sweat, being dragged into an ambulance" and said she has days every month when she feels "barbed wire" inside of her.

The bill, introduced Saturday with 28 Democratic cosponsors and zero Republican sponsors, has already received backlash.

"Ladies, you can’t keep saying men can be women, but then also say that women are a special category. You’ve got to pick a lane. You’re very confusing to the rest of us." Rhode Island state Rep. Marie Hopkins, R., posted on X.

Some social media users also questioned whether the bill could more easily allow employees to discriminate against hiring women and shared concerns that despite it covering vasectomies, men wouldn't receive paid days for prostate issues and testosterone-related conditions.

Other users also questioned if the bill could force employers to pay workers for time off to recover from abortions.

The bill is endorsed by Planned Parenthood, the National Organization for Women (NOW) and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Planned Parenthood signage displayed outside health care clinic in Inglewood California

Planned Parenthood has endorsed Ansari's agenda. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP)

Planned Parenthood Votes vice president Angela Vasquez-Giroux told Bloomberg in an article published on Friday that though there were "roadblocks to the bills becoming law," it doesn't mean lawmakers shouldn't try.

"We’ve seen overwhelming success from candidates who have a plan and have a point of view," vice president of communications for Planned Parenthood Votes Angela Vasquez-Giroux told Bloomberg. "Just because we can’t get something passed over the opposition of the majority at the time doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t be putting forward our vision for the world we want to create.

>>1517702
>https://www.foxnews.com
Man they're really struggling to find chud bait stories lately if this is the best they can come up with.

>>1517709
>chud bait stories
This is incredibly important to the esl shill, it isn't a chud bait story.
They're a real woman after their transition, so its unfair for them to not get this benefit just because they don't menstruate.

>>1517709
>>1517714
>I lost so hard I'm not even going to attempt to argue
damn, the NPCs aren't even trying anymore. Did your programmers get a budget cut?

>>1517723
>fox news
>implying they make arguments as opposed to entertainment for the brainwashed

>>1517724
>I was programmed to disregard objective reality if it does not come from an Approved Source
lmao, can you even pretend to be capable of actual thought?

>>1517723
you are incredibly gay if you care about this story

>>1517725
just be happy you're getting attention, shill. nobody is ever going to take you seriously

>>1517726
>the 28 Democrats in Congress supporting this are incredibly gay
is that a bad thing? Come on anon, it's the first day of Pride month.
>>1517728
>Yes, you're right, I have been BTFO yet again
that was fast

>>1517730
>is that a bad thing?
it is for you, yes

>>1517730
You may not have been born a woman, OP, but we'll fight like hell for your right to be one.

>>1517731
but you aren't talking about me, you're talking about the 28 Democrats in Congress supporting this. Is it bad that they are gay?
>>1517732
IWNBAM.
>but we'll fight like hell for your right to be one.
so you are fighting for me to get an extra 12 days of sick leave then? Source?

>>1517735
nobody is talking about your thread's topic anon, they're making fun of you

>>1517736
>nobody is talking about your thread's topic anon, we're conceding because we know we lost
thanks, I accept your concession

>>1517738
NTA but he's right. You really are incredibly gay.

>>1517738
if being regularly humiliated is winning for you, i'd hate to see what losing looks like

>>1517739
>NTA
why do you lie?
>>1517740
>If me conceding and admitting that I lost is winning for you, I'd hate to see what losing looks like
I haven't seen what losing looks like, only winning like I did ITT obviously which is why you immediately starting coping instead of addressing the thread topic.

>>1517709
It's more like they will use this story to fill air time instead of talking about the real news of the day, or how Trump debased and defrauded America THIS time.

>>1517741
this is just getting sad, shill anon. why do you do this to yourself

>>1517742
>Democrats: We hate men and we're being even more obvious with it now than we usually are!
>/news/: Shit, they're so obvious about it this time that we can't even defend it. We should just switch to saying it's wrong to care about the Demcorats who care about this!

>>1517744
holy smokes shill anon, this made me forget trump is a pedophile who lost the war with iran

>>1517744
Yes, Anon, democrats hate half the human population. That makes perfect sense. Jesus christ get some help for your victim complex.

>>1517746
they don't want any help, they've been programmed into enjoying debasement.
its why they're all obsessed with cuckshit and trying to frame republicunts as second class citizens

>>1517702
>Rep. Yassamin Ansari, D-Ariz., told TIME in an article published on Sunday that she often ends up "on the bathroom floor, in the fetal position, crying, moaning, or vomiting" from menstrual pain.
Darn. Sounds like she should leave the politicking and working to the menfolk, huh?

>>1517746
lol ridiculous, right?
I mean, it's more like 75-90% of the population that they hate.

>>1517758
>>1517759
your threads are really bad

>>1517761
I only make threads with Your DailyMail articles.
Do you see Your DailyMail posted here?

>we need to increase the birth rate!!!!
>maternity leave?! nooooooo not like that!!!!
rightoids are mindless subhuman vermin. just tell them it’s 12 extra days off to fellate israelis or something, they’ll go for that.

I worked as a supervisor in Japan, where their federal workers can get admin leave for menstruation. We had a woman in her 60s who availed herself of menstrual leave every month.

It has not made a detectable difference in their birthrate. I do not this economic friction is worth it.

Most of the stuff called out in this bill are not diseases nor do they often cause any impairment

>>1517702
Americans already have a dearth of holiday time as it is, take it where you can get it.

>>1517811
>Americans already have a dearth of holiday time as it is
According to whom?

Ah yes, 4chan, a hive of incels and fags, the exact forum I'd choose to discuss anything about female reproduction. You guys will definitely have a clear picture of the female perspective, with all the women on here, and all of you having wives and girlfriends to relate to.

The wage gap is made up and not real. If companies could legit pay women 77 cents for every dollar they paid men, they would only hire women.

Menstrual pain is real, and is different for everyone. For some people like my sister it's excruciating and she becomes a massive cunt, and it's better for everyone if she just stays home. My gf's is mild and she can work right thru it.

So here's a radical idea. Maybe we give extra sick leave so they can deal with their shit, and the ones who don't need it don't have to use it.

And maybe if you're about to throw a tantrum that the hypothetical women at your hypothetical job will hypothetically have more sick leave than you, then you can remember this doesn't apply to your shitty burger flipping position.

Also, it covers vasectomies, so if you're bitching about how unfair this is,maybe go get one.

>>1517818
>yes, I am a spineless simp who believes that the privileged sex should have even more privileges
I genuinely cannot fathom the amount of internalized misandry that causes a man to become like this. You don't even talk like a real person, you sound like an actual bot.

>>1517822
This anon is right. I worked as a federal office worker in Japan, and disguised myself as a woman in her 60's. I managed to take menstrual leave every month and no one cared.

Its all a scam.

It's only fair as long as the healthcare industry continues to severely underfund women's health research. If they cared anywhere near as much about, say, curing endometriosis, as they did about male pattern baldness, women's average period would be far less debilitating. Eliminate the source of the suffering instead of these legal band-aids.

>>1517811
Seriously just menstruate or have a miscarriage on a holiday. It's common sense, people!

>>1517818
>If companies could legit pay women 77 cents for every dollar they paid men, they would only hire women.
They view women as being 77% as effective as men.

>>1517702
>Fox news
Cancer post, cancer article, cancer Trump voter

>>1517702
I dunno. Since when are someone's bodily functions anyone else's business?

Then again: if someone's bodily functions prevent them from doing their job properly, maybe they should be off the clock.

Republicans love to violate women daily. How can you suggest otherwise when they don't allow unrestricted access to abortion which is a woman's natural right?

This bill requires paid leave for vasectomies. Fuck that shit. Men should suffer at work or go without pay.

>>1517818
>>It's different for everybody, there is no way we could possibly observe, describe, or characterize the distribution of symptoms.

I guess the federal government can make it better by making a policy that applies to everyone.

>>1517892
ahh yes the democrat 8 month old abortions is fine amirite.
next you'll be like that porn star who thinks using her babyshower as an oppertunity for a gangbang is a great marketting tool.

>>1517822
>I assume anyone with a different opinion is a bot, because I'm a massive emotionally stunted faggot who can't engage with anything beyond the most basic ideas a feeble mind could grasp.

>internalized misandry.

The difference between me and you is I don't let screeching third wave feminists dictate my behavior, where they clearly live rent free in your head. I don't know if you're unfuckably ugly, or just have the social skills of an autistic spider, but you're fucking pathetic for siding with the fascist pedophile robber barons, and you should listen to your suicidal intrusive thoughts.

>>1517992
absolutely SEETHING lmao!
>anyone with a different opinion
your "opinion" is that women deserve enormous extra privileges simply because they are le fairer sex.
And your opinion isn't what makes you a bot, talking like this >>1517818 is what makes you a bot. Go interact with normal human adults.

>>1518020
You think you're a normal human, shill? Lol

>>1517992
You are definitely a bot because every post you made is just a retarded checklist of liberal shit posting and ignorance

>Literally just told you what your position is, because I'm still a weak willed bitch who cannot engage with actual arguments.

Oh yes, the silly faggot made me seethe. I'm just so goshed darned peeved at your minuscule wit's impotent flailing I might have to start going to therapy to cope.

>Checklist of lib-
whatever helps you sleep at night, stupid faggot.

>go interact with normal human adults.

But then I'd have to stop hanging out with retarded faggots like you.

>>1517702
Just take a painkiller and go to work, that's how I've been doing my whole life when having menstrual cramps. Also if you have excruciating pain you should see a doctor because that's not normal and prob some condition you should get treated for like endometriosis
Also anyone laughing at "antifem" shit is literally gay

>>1517818
Fuck your sister, I'm glad she's in pain