Oklahoma recently passed a law (HR 1595) that will collect personal details about every single abortion performed in the state and post them on a public website. Critics of the legislation worry that the information could be used to identify individuals. Portions of the law were supposed to take effect on Nov. 1, but a [...]
The House Obamacare Abortion war is not done. Before the final vote on Saturday night, the house passed the Stupak Amendment, the only bi-partisan part of the bill. Sixty-four Democrats joined Republicans to pass the amendment, which if it wasn't passed would have caused the 40+ pro-life Democrats to vote no, putting Obamacare on the shelf next to Hillarycare. The Stupak amendment prohibits abortion...
By GottaLaff Via Greg Sargent , we get a peek at a no-wiggle-room letter to Nancy Pelosi has been signed by 41 House Democrats (emphasis mine): The Honorable Nancy Pelosi Speaker U.S. House of Representatives H-232 Capitol Washington, DC 20515 Dear Madam Speaker: As members of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus, we believe that women should have access to a full range of reproductive health care....
If you don’t reform health care, I might stop loving you Even though I may not have been paying that close of attention to the debate over health care reform, I did notice that, as soon as it became about abortion, everything turned upside down and gave everyone the political cover they needed to maintain the status quo: More than 40 lawmakers vowed to oppose the final healthcare bill if the...
Could the whole government seizure of the health care industry break on the political juggernaut of abortion? The abortion issue had been rumbling within the House Democratic caucus for weeks, but Saturday’s votes revealed the depths of the fault lines. The amendment passed with the support of 64 Democrats, roughly a quarter of the party caucus. But abortion-rights supporters are vowing to strip...
Obtained: In Letter To Pelosi, 41 House Dems Pledge To Vote Against Bill With Anti-Abortion Amendment | The Plum Line Could somebody please drive up to Michigan's upper peninsula and slap Bart STupak for me? In a move that will intensify the coming war over how to treat abortion in the health care bill, more than three dozen House Dems have signed a letter to Nancy Pelosi firmly pledging to vote against...
Last Week in Review Finally, the pro-life amendment that pro-lifers were waiting for passed with flying colors in the House just before the House health care reform bill barely passed 220-115. As reported earlier tax payer funding of abortion was what was blocking health care reform in the House (see The Two Hang Ups currently blocking passage of health care reform: one in the House and one in the...
Talking Points Memo 's Amanda Carpenter reports on President Barack Obama's position on the Stupak-Pitts amendment in the health care bill. Classic-Obama tells ABC no "sneaking in funding for abortions, but, on the other hand, that we're not restricting women's insurance choices" Could Obama be anymore vague? The Stupak-Pitts amendment would restrict abortion for many low income women. Congressman...
So you, or your wife or daughter might be forced to by an insurance policy under the threat of federal penalty, and one of the prime actors in shaping part of that that bill, the Bart Stupak sepsis amendment, was the Catholic Church. Which, you know, is great if you’re a devout Catholic. It’s more than a bit problematic if you believe, just as sincerely, that government inserting itself...
Dear Congressman Kennedy: “The fact that I disagree with the hierarchy on some issues does not make me any less of a Catholic.” (Congressman Patrick Kennedy) Since our recent correspondence has been rather public, I hope you don’t mind if I share a few reflections about your practice of the faith in this public forum. I usually wouldn’t do that – that is speak about someone’s...
Less than a day after saying the Senate could live with a health care amendment that greatly restricted a woman's access to abortion in the private insurance market, Sen. Claire McCaskill, (D-MO) announced she opposed such an amendment. The Senator, on her twitter page , said that she objected to the language offered to the House health care bill by Sen. Bart Stupak (D-Mich). "[I] Don't think...
November 10, 2009 Posted by Jay Livingston Guns Galore. The name might be emblematic of the US as a whole, but it’s merely the name of the store where Maj. Hasan plunked down his $1,100 and walked out with his brand new Hekstra 5.7mm and several 20-round magazines. At first, I thought that gun control was irrelevant in this case because Maj. Hasan was member of the US Army, and no law could...
As the Democratic Party - the liberal base - is the party of death to babies, this is not surprising. I've edited it for clarity. "In a move that will intensify the coming war over how to treat abortion in the health care bill, more than three dozen House Dems have signed a letter to Nancy Pelosi firmly pledging to vote against the bill if it contains an anti-abortion amendment. A source sends...
Looking ahead to the voting on the final, reconciled Obamacare bill, Greg Sargent finds the battle lines have already been drawn in the House: In a move that will intensify the coming war over how to treat abortion in the health care bill, more than three dozen House Dems have signed a letter to Nancy Pelosi firmly pledging to vote against the bill if it contains an anti-abortion amendment. A source...
And now the fate of healthcare reform hangs in an intra-party fight over abortion : In a move that will intensify the coming war over how to treat abortion in the health care bill, more than three dozen House Dems have signed a letter to Nancy Pelosi firmly pledging to vote against the bill if it contains an anti-abortion amendment. A source sends over a working copy of the letter without the signatories,...
President-elect Barack Obama could reverse some of President Bush's most controversial executive orders, including restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, shortly after taking office in January.
[Italica] - Seven police officers interrogated a woman few hours after she had an abortion at the 21th week of pregnancy in a hospital in Naples. However, from the inquiries made it appeared that it was legal. As a matter of fact, the Italian law permitts the abortion up to the sixth months of pregnancy if the fetus has a malformation. The doctors declared that they have detected the Klinefelter syndrome