JivinJehoshaphat (Free subscription) | yesterday
Wesley Smith notes a changed clause in Senator Reid’s health care bill could force insurance providers in states where assisted suicide is legal to include assisted suicide in their plans. If assisted suicide, or even euthanasia, are legally considered forms of “end of life care” in a particular state–as it is now in Oregon, Washington, and Montana–it seems to me that...
Media Matters for America (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Chris Matthews allowed Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) to repeatedly falsely claim that his amendment to the House health care reform bill is consistent with "current law" with regard to abortion coverage and simply extends the Hyde Amendment's prohibition on government money from being used to pay for most abortions. In doing so, Matthews ignored several guests who had previously explained to him...
Pushing Rope (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Marco Rubio is a conservative poser. Rubio appears on paper as a red blooded tea party-loving wingnut. The record reflects a man who will reinvent himself. Rubio talks a mean Second amendment game. NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer gives Rubio a lower rating than Crist. "He voted when the gun bill was brought to the vote, but we know that what goes on behind the scenes is an entirely different story,"...
Living Catholicism (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
I thought this was well worth reading. 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...
Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), a co-Chairwoman of the House Pro-Choice Caucus, has been an outspoken critic of the abortion language included in the House health care bill. In the interview that follows, she makes the case that current language in the House health care bill--proposed by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) and passed on the House floor shortly before the entire package was voted on--amounts to a massive...
Bench Memos (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
I’ve read through USA Today reporter Joan Biskupic’s new biography of Justice Scalia, American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia . In this and a few additional posts, I’ll offer my comments on the book. Disclosure: As I assume regular Bench Memos readers know, and as clicking my name above will readily reveal, I had the privilege of serving...
Values Voter News (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Related : Watch House debate on the Stupak amendment just before it passed 240-194 on 11/07/2009 at avoidthebias.com . Nancy Pelosi says Stupak amendment is not "status quo", that pro-choicers are right on the issue and she will "fight" the pro-life amendment but reminds the people that this bill is not about abortion. To which many may respond: maybe so but it is the very issue...
Fundamental Truths (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
For the last 6 months we keep hearing people on the right shouting out accusations of unconstitutionality against President Obama and the Democratic Majority Congress. We have even had the Republican Minority Leader in the House and embrarrasment to Ohio, John Boehner quote The Preamble of the Declaration of Independence claiming it was the Constitution. Yet here is the reality. A majority of American...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
The horror of choice is a common theme of the commentary of the Stupak amendment from pro-choicers. Nancy Pelosi "shouldn't have had to face" the choice between accepting the amendment and seeing health-care legislation fail, writes Judith Warner at the New York Times site. Marcia Greenberger of the National Women's Law Center echoed the sentiment , as did Jeffrey Rosen at The New Republic...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Timothy McNulty | November 16, 2009 We've heard a lot about Jason Altmire's nay vote on health care reform, but what about the yes from fellow Blue Dog Dem Kathy Dahlkemper? From the Erie Times-News (via PoliticsPa ): U.S. Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper, of Erie, might have put her political life on the line -- or enhanced it -- with her vote on health-care reform a week ago. . . . Dahlkemper, who is anti-abortion,...
Dispatches from the Culture Wars (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
In a rather odd interview with The Atlantic, Rep. Bart Stupak accused opponents of his controversial amendment to ban all abortion coverage of distorting what his amendment does and repeatedly said that the amendment didn't actually change anything at all. Referring to the Hyde Amendment, a law passed in 1976 that prohibits federal money from being used to pay for abortions under any circumstances,...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
"There are principled stands against abortion," but "there's nothing principled about" Rep. Bart Stupak's (D-Mich.) antiabortion amendment to the House reform bill (HR 3962), which "goes far beyond current federal law," a Detroit Free Press editorial states.
Hullabaloo (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Good Conscience by digby When's the last time a person was willing to lose his or her seat in order to keep a women's right to choose from being restricted much less advancing it. This man did it a long time ago: Saturday, December 5, 1992 Former Assemblyman George M. Michaels, who cast the deciding vote to liberalize New York's abortion law in 1970, thereby ending his political career, died on Thursday...
Open Left (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
In my diary "Congresswoman Diana DeGette Talks About Her Letter & Blocking The Stupak Amendment" , Michele Kelly noted: Just for the record There is a coalition working on Hyde. http://www.hyde30years.nnaf.org/ That's their banner up above. You can click on it to go to their website (in a new window). In one of their flyers, they explain: Today, women forgo food, risk eviction, and pawn...
Weiwen's religion blog (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Anthony Stevens-Arroyo, writing for the Washington Post's On Faith column , asks if the abortion regulations in the House reform bill could have been done differently. As it is, the amendment offered by Bart Stupak would prohibit abortion services from being offered in any plan on the proposed exchanges. Previously, the intent was to have providers segregate public subsidies from individual payments,...
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www.italica.sm | 02/13/2008
[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
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