Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) suffers from "religious bigotry" for suggesting religiously-affiliated groups should not take part in the healthcare deba...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) pledged on Tuesday that he would kill health care reform legislation if his anti-abortion amendment is taken out. "They're...
Leah Reis-Dennis | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
Watch out, America's politicians, students are back on the streets. We voted last year because of Obama, and you have just given us a reason to vote next year.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York
While the passage of The Affordable Health Care for America Act through the House was a milestone worth celebrating, the Stupak-Pitts amendment attached to it is truly dangerous to women and girls.
Kelley Bell-Wenzlaff | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
The health care bill is so important, we can't let this amendment get in the way of its passage. But don't mistake that to mean its O.K. to ask the ladies to "take one for the team," not this time.
AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Abortion rights groups, outflanked and outnumbered in the health debate, are scrambling to regain lost ground after the House passe...
Nancy L. Cohen | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
Even if some Democrats who voted for the amendment did so because of deep convictions, the main thrust of the measure is to condemn women for being sexually active.
AP | CHRISTINE SIMMONS | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Republican National Committee's health insurance plan covers elective abortions for its employees, an option Republicans strong...
Politics Daily | Jill Lawrence | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
RINOs and conservadems are cutting quite a swath these days -- making demands, frustrating their colleagues, wielding clout and even influencing elect...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) is warning fellow Democrats not to mess with his restrictive anti-abortion amendment. Pro-choice outrage was sparked by th...
Joanne Bamberger | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
I was more worried about Justices Scalia and Thomas, and now it turns out I should have been focusing on some Congressman from Michigan. The short, non-wonky version of where we are? We're screwed.
MJ Rosenberg | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Would it be appropriate for Jewish and Muslim House members to oppose legislation beneficial to the pork industry or, even more analogous, to insist on a ban on eating pork products altogether?
Rep. Carolyn Maloney | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
The historic passage of a health care bill came with an inescapably cruel irony. There is an amendment in the bill that threatens the health of millions of American women.
NY Daily News | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand was just on the Senate floor denouncing Rep. Bart Stupak's anti-abortion health care amendment in language that came awfully c...
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Stupak's poison pill will kill the public option -- unless progressives react intelligently rather than emotionally, in which case they can actually turn the anti-abortion amendment to their advantage.
Jessica Arons | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
The Stupak Amendment, passed Saturday night by the House of Representatives after a compromise deal fell apart, potentially goes farther than any other federal law to restrict women's access to abortion.
Ellen Malcolm | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
As Congress struggled to pass health care reform to improve the lives of America's families, anti-choice forces took advantage of the situation to mount yet another assault on abortion.
Jane Hamsher | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Democrats in Congress have just proudly signed a deal that allows a bunch of old men who have spent the better part of the last century avoiding their own sexual issues to dictate access to abortion services.
Bruce Wilson | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics
Those in the powerful, secretive, Washington Christian fundamentalist association known as The Family have led some of the most virulent opposition to health care reform and especially a "public option".
Roll Call | Tory Newmyer | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
Two senior House Democratic lawmakers are seeking new information from six top insurance companies in an ongoing probe of the industry's business prac...
Michigan Messenger | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
Despite weeks of media attention paid to the now-infamous "C Street" house owned by The Family, a secretive Christian group, U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak -- ...
The Hill | Michael O'Brien | Posted 11.17.2009 | Denver