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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
A New Jersey public high school student last week filed a federal lawsuit alleging that her free-speech and religious-freedom rights were violated when her school's administrators prohibited her from participating in an antiabortion-rights protest last month, the AP/Google News reports.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Several newspapers recently published opinion pieces regarding an amendment sponsored by Reps. Bart Stupak's (D-Mich.) and Joe Pitts (R-Pa.) to the House health care reform bill (HR 3962) that would prohibit abortion coverage in private and public health plans that receive federal subsidies. Summaries appear below.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
The New York Times reports that "the health care proposals from the House and the Senate are broadly similar but differ on some major issues." It reports on five issues - the public plan, employer contribution, abortion, illegal immigrants and financing - and puts differences in bold type (11/19).
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Wednesday unveiled the chamber's version of health care reform legislation, which he said would extend coverage to 31 million uninsured U.S. residents while reducing the federal deficit, the New York Times reports.
Climbing Out Of The Dark (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Remember the 60's? That was the age of flower children and drugs and freedom from the bra. Feminists had a goal and they achieved it. Abortions. Equality. Getting out of the kitchen. They had a purpose. I might disagree with the abortion position, but they did a lot to advance the cause of females, for that I applaud them. Where are they now? Or, I should say, what are they now? What is a feminist...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The Senate on Tuesday voted 70-29 to allow debate on federal appeals court nominee David Hamilton, ending a GOP filibuster and setting up a final confirmation vote that could occur this week, Roll Call reports (Brady, Roll Call, 11/17). Hamilton's confirmation has been stalled since June, when the Senate Judiciary Committee gave him a favorable recommendation to the Senate, the
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Several newspapers recently published opinion pieces regarding Rep. Bart Stupak's (D-Mich.) amendment to the House health care reform bill (HR 3962). The amendment would prohibit abortion coverage in private and public health plans in the proposed health exchange that receive federal subsidies. Summaries appear below.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries. ~ "DeGette: Stupak Agenda Is Much Wider Restrictions on Abortion," Brian Beutler, Talking Points Memo: Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) "takes issue" with Rep. Bart Stupak's (D-Mich.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is planning a "key test vote by the end of the week" on a health reform bill, according to Senate aides, Politico reports. "The vote on a motion to proceed to the bill could come as early as Friday, teeing up the amendment process to begin after the Thanksgiving break." Reid may keep the Senate in session over the weekend (Budoff Brown,...
Pro-Life News (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
University of Illinois at Springfield (Isa.5:20) Different than the morning after pill or Plan B, Planned Parenthood now has available at most locations the Abortion Pill, also known as mifepristone. According to Planned Parenthood's website, this new pill is considered...
jillstanek.com (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Sharon Lerner at Double X wrote: Abortion, it seems, was lost to political horse-trading. But there are also deeper forces at work.... The best example is birth control, which was also recently thrown under the health-reform train. So far, none of the 3 reform bills has required insurers to cover contraception .... Women's health advocates reported that some Democrats cited a fear of igniting controversy...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Changes Planned For Ugandan HIV/AIDS Campaign "The Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC) is revamping its national HIV information campaign after HIV prevention messages were less successful than hoped," PlusNews reports.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
The issue of abortion coverage has put abortion-rights supporters in Congress at odds over whether to support health care reform legislation, the New York Times' "Prescriptions" blog reports. The House bill (HR 3962) that
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Newspapers continue to report on the Stupak amendment to the House health bill and how it will affect access to abortion. "[T]he Stupak amendment, named for Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), would ban individuals from using new government subsidies to buy insurance plans that cover abortion, and it would prohibit a government-operated plan - the public option - from carrying abortion coverage,"...
Salon.com (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
In Salon today, Max Blumenthal writes of Sarah Palin, "her career has become a vehicle through which the right-wing evangelical movement feels it can express its deepest identity in opposition both to secular society and to its representatives in the Obama White House. Palin is perceived by its leaders -- and followers -- not as another cynical politician or even as a self-promoting celebrity,...
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