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MSNBC Panel: Trump Trying To Take Away Birth Control, Equal Pay [VIDEO]

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An MSNBC panel on Saturday agreed that President Trump’s administration is trying to take away women’s birth control and make sure there is no equal pay.

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On MSNBC’s “AM Joy” Saturday, host Joy Reid said, “Part of what happens is policy that flows from on high that tries to address it. What we have coming out of this administration, to the point that’s made by this panel, is policy that’s attempting to take away birth control, take away reproductive rights. It’s an interesting time from a policy standpoint.”

Karine Jean-Pierre, an editor at feminist “Bustle,” said, “It really is. And also make sure there is no equal pay for women. That’s coming straight out of the White House and the Oval Office.”

She continued, “It brings me back to almost a year ago, there is a systemic problem we’re having here which is in 2016 we had the opportunity to elect the first women president. And what I remember hearing in focus groups was that from women and men that this country could not be run by a woman. A woman could not be president. And so there is a problem that we have that women aren’t seen as a figure that could hold the higher office.”

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