Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
As you reflect on the horrible vote that traded reproductive choice for health care, remember that the champion of that vote is one of C Street's top Democratic members.
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | yesterday
If Planned Parenthood and NARAL are just going to lie down and let access to reproductive health legislation to be written by Catholic bishops, I guess they think that’s in the best interest of the women who donate to their respective organizations. But I wonder if Bart Stupak’s donors want to be associated with his anti-choice [...]
The Impolitic (Free subscription) | yesterday
The line between Church and State gets ever fainter. It appears the Dems will cave to the fundie crowd and have agreed to have an up or down vote on Stupak's anti-choice amendment . The upshot being, virtually no insurer, public or private will be allowed to pay for perfectly legal abortions. However, you feel about the existence of abortion, the fact remains it's a legitimate medical procedure. And...
Alterdestiny (Free subscription) | yesterday
And Congress just voted to let him make that choice. The amendment, which you can download and read in full here , would do three things. First, it would codify the Hyde Amendment provisions in the bill so that the ban on federal funds being used for abortions besides those resulting from rape or incest, or in cases where the mother’s life is endangered would remain intact regardless of Hyde...
Corrente (Free subscription) | yesterday
Marcy Kaptur is on C-Span right now talking glowingly about the anti-women's rights addition to the Insurance Industry Protection Act. Sigh. Now somebody else [Christopher Smith] is up, talking about the huge number of babies who would have been killed and all the mothers who would have been wounded without the intervention of the brave right-to-life souls who got this amendment into the bill. Eric...
Democrashield.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Democratic leadership is being forced to bring the Stupak amendment to a vote in order to have a shot at passing health care reform. If the amendment passes–which is likely–it will mean that: Private insurers will have to drop abortion coverage from plans that have it (which is most of them) in order to participate [...]
Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
The envelope, please... and the winner is CATHOLIC DEMOCRATS! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 8, 2009 Catholic Democrats Celebrates Passage of Health Care Reform by House of Representatives and Applauds Speaker Nancy Pelosi for Her Leadership Urges All Catholics to Support Adding Provisions to Senate Bill that Expand Health Care Coverage as Human Right Boston, MA - Catholic Democrats applauds the passage...
Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Kristen Day: "Pro-Life Democrats Praise House For Passage Of Health Care Reform" The head of Democrats for Life of America, in a statement emailed to Booker Rising: "The House of Representatives answered the call of history [last night] when they passed health care reform. While it would be tempting to call this a Democratic win, the truth is the American people are the winners of this...
Hawaii Right to Life (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
WASHINGTON (November 7, 2009) -- The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of right-to-life organizations in the 50 states, issued the following statement regarding today's actions in the House of Representatives on the health care restructuring legislation, H.R. 3962. The House adopted the NRLC-backed Stupak-Pitts Amendment, 240-194. The Stupak-Pitts Amendment removed two major pro-abortion...
Mike the Mad Biologist (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
(from here ) Needless to say, I'm disgusted by the amendment introduced by Democratic Congressvermin Bart Stupak which would effectively make most abortions not covered by health insurance, even though many are now. Given the tremendous numbers of women who have had an abortion , it's not like he's going to put a dent in the 'problem'--women will still become pregnant, still want to become unpregnant,...
kevin drum (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Ann Friedman quotes Pilgrim Soul on the passage last night of Bart Stupak's appalling amendment to prevent anyone receiving a federal subsidy from buying a health insurance plan that covers abortions: Charmingly I expect that in the next few days all your liberal dude friends will be trying to explain to you that this is really no big deal, look, they had to get the Republicans/"Democrats"...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan House coalition voted Saturday to prohibit coverage of abortions in a new government-run health care plan that Democrats would establish to compete with private insurers. The 240-194 vote on an amendment by Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., was a blow to liberals, who would have allowed the Obama administration and its successors to decide whether abortions would be covered...
Curmudgeonly & Skeptical² (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
A Courtesy to our Friends at KOS DEMOCRATS WHO VOTED TO SLAP WOMEN BACK TO THE STONE AGE ( HR # Bill: H R 3962 ) KOS diarist LaFeminista reflects the animus the Soros-left have after the passsage of the Stupak Amendment which, nominally, will keep Obamacare from funding abortion. In truth, a Medicare type supplement insurance will be available. Anyway, to help them out, and make retribution easier,...
The Liberal Doomsayer (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Yes, the road will get rockier still in the Senate, but for now, congratulations! ( here ). And by the way, I hope every one of the 64 "Democrats" who voted for the Bart Stupak pro-sepsis amendment (Stupak is pictured above) loses next year when running for re-election ( here - I don't know the math on whether or not the Dems would still control the House or not, but I'm sick of trying to...
HolyCoast.com (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Now, I know most of the people who read this blog are pro-life (as am I), so before you get all worked up about that post title, hear me out. The pro-life movement did not distinguish itself during last night's Obamacare vote in the House, it got played by Nancy Pelosi and I'll explain how in a moment. Last night's vote in the House was as carefully scripted as a WWE wrestling match. The winner was...
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