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Poll: Majority Dismiss Right Wing Healthcare Attacks As "Scare Tactics"

The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Socialized Medicine, Right Wing Attacks, Senate Finance Committee, Scare Tactics, Health Care Rationing, Death Panels, Illegal Immigrants, Healthcare Reform, Politics News

Wow, this is cause for cautious optimism: Buried in a new Bloomberg poll is evidence that solid majorities dismiss all the leading right wing health c...

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The Truth About the Capps Amendment

Rep. Lois Capps | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hyde Amendment, Abortion, Health Care Reform, Women's Health, Health Care, H. R. 3200, Lois Capps, Capps Abortion, Abortion Rights, Rep. Lois Capps, Capps Abortion Amendment, Pro-Choice, Choice, Health Care Reform Abortion, Politics News
Rep. Lois Capps

My amendment offers a common ground solution to a very challenging policy question -- namely how do we deal with abortion services in health reform legislation.

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Anti-Abortion Group Politicizes Memorial of Slain Pro-Life Activist

Chris Savage | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: James Pouillon, Owosso, Abortion, Operation Rescue, Michigan, Harlan Drake, Planned Parenthood, George Tiller, Politics News
Chris Savage

Although anti-abortion groups decried the "politicization" of the killing of Dr. George Tiller, it appears that they are perfectly happy to use this tragedy to their own political advantage.

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Sebelius: No Public Abortion Funding In Health Care Bill

McClatchy | David Lightman | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius pledged Sunday that President Barack Obama will support barring public funding for...

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Obama Doesn't Want Abortion Money In Health Care Reform: Sebelius

AP | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion Funding Health Care Bill, Abortion, Abortion Health Care Bill, Sebelius, Obama Abortion Health Care Bill, Kathleen Sebelius, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says the president supports language in health overhaul legislation that expl...

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White House To Meet With Anti-Abortion Activists Next Week

ABC News | Jake Tapper | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Anti-Abortion Activists, Congress, Abortion Activists, Barack Obama, Politics News

Concerned that health care reform bills in Congress don't explicitly exclude coverage for abortion, Charmaine Yoest of Americans United for Life Actio...

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Australian Teenager Faces Jail Over Home Abortion

Times London | Anne Barrowclough | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Abortion, Australia Teenager, Home Abortion, Australia, Abortion Laws, Tegan Leach, World News

A teenager faces seven years in prison after being ordered to stand trial for organising her own home abortion in the first such prosecution in Austra...

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Obama's Health Care Speech: Hope Over Fear

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: President, System, Social Justice, Debate, Economic Crisis, Abortions, Politics, Kennedy, Social Transformation, Moral Principle, Community, Democrat, Reform, Congress, Democrats, Ted Kennedy, America, Republican, Moral Issues, Abortion, Hope, Members of Congress, Faith Community, Change, Health Insurance, Republicans, Justice, Health Care, Policy Arguments, Politics News
Jim Wallis

In his speech last evening, Obama made the commitments that a broad coalition in the faith community had asked for -- reform as a moral issue, affordable coverage for all, and no federal funding of abortion.

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Throwing Women Overboard -- Again

Martha Burk | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Women's Rights, Women's Issues, Speech, Death Panels, Illegal Immigration, Obama, Health Care, Politics News
Martha Burk

As the debate heats up in the coming days, we must paraphrase the question from our foremothers -- Mr. President, how long must women wait for equality?

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Choose Life: Was Moses Really Pro-Life or Pro-Abortion?

Bruce Feiler | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, New Jersey, Ronald Reagan, Boston, New York, Al Gore Nobel Prize, Choose Life License Plates, Al Gore, Moses, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Judaism, Politics News
Bruce Feiler

From the "Baby Moses Law" in Texas to a pitched battle over "Choose Life" on license plates, the Bible's leading prophet has become the latest touchstone in America's hottest hot-button issue.

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Baucus May Have Solved the Abortion-Health Care Riddle

Steven Waldman | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Abortion, Max Baucus, Reproductive Rights, Health Care Abortion, Politics News
Steven Waldman

Bishops say they would gladly support health care reform if only they could be assured it doesn't cover abortion. We may soon see if that's true.

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When Infanticide Isn't Murder

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Murder, Abortion, Texas, Mercy, Politics, Human Rights, Children, Crime, Motherhood, Parenting, Bioethics, Infanticide, Politics News
Jacob M. Appel

In the wake of a series of highly-publicized killings of young children by Texas mothers suffering from post-partum mental disorders, a state representative from Houston has introduced long overdue legislation that will recognize the mitigating circumstances surrounding such acts.

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We Believe in Health Care Reform

Jon O'Brien | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Abortion, Catholics for Choice, Catholic, Healthcare Reform, Pro-Choice, Healthcare, Assisted Reproductive Technology, Politics News
Jon O'Brien

When men and women have access to high-quality sexual and reproductive health care, our country is healthier and stronger.

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Abortion, Health Care and the Soul

Stephen Gyllenhaal | Posted 10.21.2009 | Home

Read More: Abortion, Health Care, Born Again, Right Wing, Soul, Plato, Barack Obama, Health Care Reform, Enlightenment, Home News
Stephen Gyllenhaal

How many of us would give up much of anything in an attempt to save our souls? I mean this seriously -- really -- how much would we be willing to sacrifice?

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The Daily Pulse: Deep Six the Gang of Six

Lindsay Beyerstein | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Lindsay Beyerstein, The Nation, Public Option, Lobbyists, Washington Monthly, Filibuster, Gang of Six, Salon, Mohter Jones, Insurance, The Media Consortium, Health, Daily Pulse, Talking Points Memo, Tmc, Healthcare, Ted Kennedy, Politics News
Lindsay Beyerstein

The White House has given up on Republican gangster Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY). They finally got the hint when Enzi told a radio listeners that Democrats wanted to kill the elderly.

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U.S. Conservatives Attack UNESCO's Sex Ed Guidelines

Yahoo! News | BRUCE CRUMLEY / PARIS | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

Read More: Abortion, Unesco, Sex, American Conservatives, Conservatives Sex Education, Sex Education Conservatives, Comprehensive Sex Education, Us Conservatives, Unesco Sex Education, Sex Education, World News

Any attempt to decrease the number of unwanted pregnancies and slow the spread of sexually transmitted diseases like HIV around the world has to be a ...

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Health Care Reform & Abortion: Separating Fact From Fiction

Rachel Laser | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics News, Edward Kennedy, Abortion, Progressives, Health Care, Culture Program, Health Care Reform, Third Way, Barack Obama, Politics News
Rachel Laser

Our careful read of the current health care reform bills reveals that the legislation successfully strikes a delicate moral balance. While the proposal is indeed in many regards "abortion neutral," it arguably does moreto expand options for pro-life Americans than for pro-choice Americans.

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Archbishop Chaput-Catholicism Kaput

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Archbishop Chaput, Roman Catholic Church, Ted Kennedy, Ted Kennedy Health Care, Politics News
Christopher Brauchli

Prelates at Ted Kennedy's funeral did not sacrifice on the alter of ideology the health care reform the Senator so ardently supported. Colorado Catholics should be so fortunate to have such enlightened leaders.

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"This Comment Has Been Removed"

Norm Stamper | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Barney Frank, Gun Control, Professor Gates, Obama, White Male Privilege, Cambridge Police, Teddy Kennedy, Dr. Tiller, Socrates, Sai Baba, Sexism, Homophobia, Sotomayor, Racism, Drug War, Death Penalty, Health Care, Censorship, Nazi-Baiter, Politics News
Norm Stamper

How long will it be before one of those pistol-packing town-hallers, driven to the brink by publicly aired hate-talk, pulls his gun, and then its trigger?

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Abortion Is New Front in Health Care Battle

Wall Street Journal | FAWN JOHNSON and LAURA MECKLER | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

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Most versions of the Democratic health plan would create subsidies for lower-income people to buy private health insurance. If that insurance includes...

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The Abortion Distortion: Setting The Record -- and John Boehner -- Straight on the Capps Amendment

Jessica Arons | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Lois Capps, John Boehner, Health Care Reform, Government-Funding, Taxpayers, Politics News
Jessica Arons

Abortion is a red herring. Most of the politicians and interest groups who protest abortion coverage in health care reform do not want reform to succeed at all.

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New Protest Signs at Town Hall Rallies

Robbie Gennet | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

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Robbie Gennet

If you haven't seen them, some clever folks started showing up at these town hall protests with faux signs that make light of these Fox-fed people ranting and raving about Nazis and whatnot.

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Palin Supports Corsi: District 9 Is a Documentary

Warren Holstein | Posted 09.20.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Charles Grassley, Death Panels, The Rapture, Immigration, Iran, Obama, Media, Facebook, Civil Rights, The Washington Post, South Africa, Politics, Liz Cheney, Dennis Kucinich, Dick Cheney, Illegal Immigrants, Gop, Washington Post, Health Care, Sharia, Abortion, Birthers, Twitter, Food Stamps, Books, The New York Times, Lou Dobbs, Aliens, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Illegal Aliens, Tom Coburn, District 9, Jerome Corsi, Todd Palin, Cnn, Sarah Palin, Return-of-Shantytowns, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Alaska, NY Times, Metacritic, Comedy News
Warren Holstein

An indignant Palin immediately released a series of searing Facebook status updates denouncing the impending alien immigrant infestation as "icky" and "un-American,"

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Conservative Black Bishop Calls Universal Health Care 'Reverse Classism'

Huffington Post | Matthew Palevksy | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Health Care Reform, Health Care Town Halls, Bishop Harry Jackson, Media Monitors, Obamacare, Health Care, Politics News

A hat tip to Jon Nicosia from Eyes & Ears' Media Monitors for this scoop. On Tuesday, Conservative Bishop Harry Jackson from Hope Christian Church ...

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Anti-Choice Groups Raking in Dough by Promoting Civil Rights of Zygotes

Megan Carpentier | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: American Life League, Colorado Right to Life, Abortion, Leroy Carhart, Human Life International, Reproductive Choice, Money, Students for Life, Life Legal Defense Fund, Personhood Amendments, Anti-Choice, Choice, Operation Rescue, Politics News
Megan Carpentier

If the anti-choice movement has its way, the moment one sperm eats its way through an egg's outer shell would be the last moment in human development that wouldn't be covered by the Constitution. Unsurprisingly, it's a rather lucrative racket.

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