Stupak Amendment

Another Look at Stupak-Pitts

Lanny Davis | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Democrats Health Care Reform, Health Care Bill, Stupak Pro-Choice, Stupak-Pitts Amendment, Stupak Amendment, Health Care Reform, Pro-Choice, Politics News

Stupak amendment supporters should support a proposal that requires that at least one insurance policy on a state exchange include abortion coverage so long as another, identical policy does not include abortion coverage.

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Stupak: Win Or Lose, We Need Culture Change

Aspen Baker | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Salon.com, Culture Wars, Abortion Debate, Pro-Voice, Health Care Reform, Stupak Amendment, Pro-Life, Conflict Resolution, Daily Kos, Stupak Abortion, Politics News

We must recognize that we are a nation deep in conflict, and instead of trying to win with politics, we must work towards building peace. We need to change the conversation about abortion.

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Stupak-Pitts Goes Beyond Status Quo

Rep. Lois Capps | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Capps Amendment, Women's Rights, Lois Capps, Women's Health, Abortion Rights, Stupak Amendment, Health Care Reform, Women and Politics, Stupak Abortion Amendment, Politics News

We must not allow abortion opponents to use our health care reform process to drastically restrict a woman's access to a legal medical procedure, and that's exactly what the Stupak amendment does.

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Cartoon: Iceberg Dead Ahead!

Shan Wells | Posted 11.19.2009 | Denver

Read More: Abortion, Congress, Abortion Rights, Anti-Abortion, Democrates, Obama Health Care, Denver, Barack Obama, Sentate, House, White House, Insurance, Abortion Laws, Health Insurance, Stupak Amendment, Health Care, Health Insurance Reform, Blue Dog Democrats, Denver News

I wonder if electing a pack of blue dogs in order to gain a "majority" was worth the now very real risk that the party will chew itself to pieces via stubborn ideological bickering.

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Read The Abortion Compromise In Harry Reid's Senate Health Care Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Women's Rights, Health Care Reform Bill, Public Option, Health Insurance, Stupak Amendment, Read Senate Abortion Health Bill, Read Health Care Reform, Senate Health Bill, Anti-Choice, Abortion Language, Senate Health Care Reform Bill, Pro-Choice, Politics News

The health care reform package unveiled by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) Wednesday night bars the use of federal funds for abortion servi...

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Senate Dems Close In On Reform: Details Of Health Care Bill Revealed

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

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Read the bill (PDF). Senate Democrats have posted the legislation on their web site. --------- Senate Democrats made a big step toward comprehensive...

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Diana DeGette Targeted By Conservative Groups For Standing Up To Stupak

The Hill | Michael O'Brien | Posted 11.17.2009 | Denver

Read More: Bart Stupak, Stupak Amendment, Family Research Council, Diana DeGette, Abortion, Tony Perkins, Denver News

Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) suffers from "religious bigotry" for suggesting religiously-affiliated groups should not take part in the healthcare deba...

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NYC Women Unite Against Stupak-Pitts Amendment

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York

Read More: Stupak Amendment, Health Care Reform, Bart Stupak, Kirsten Gillibrand, New York News

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.

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A Woman Scorned: The Betrayal and Backlash of the Stupak/Pitts Anti-Abortion Amendment

Kelley Bell-Wenzlaff | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lgbt, Abortion, Bart Stupak, Women, Pitts, Stupak, Naral, Democratic Party, Jill Miller-Zimon, Rachael Maddow, Stupak Amendment, Stupak Pitts, Healthcare Reform, Gloria Feldt, Health Care, Politics News

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.

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The Logical Flaw Behind the Stupak Amendment

Sam Sedaei | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Roe v. Wade, Nancy Pelosi, Stupak Amendment, Healthcare Reform, Healthcare, Barack Obama, Republicans, Politics News

Politicians' personal beliefs on abortion are absolutely irrelevant. It is time to treat the legality of abortion with the same strength that we treat all of our other laws.

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And Once Again, It's Abortion

Vanessa Carmichael | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Women's Rights, H.R. 3962, Women's Health, Abortion Rights, Health Care Reform, Stupak Amendment, Hyde Amendment, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Health Care, Politics News

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a comprehensive health care plan for the United States -- a plan that will cover 96% of Americans. That is a victory for women.

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WATCH: Abortion Battle Coming To Cable

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Abortion, Advertising, Stupak Amendment, Stupak, Politics News

The fight over abortion rights set off by a provision in the House health-reform bill is coming to cable on Tuesday. The ad is from Center for Reprod...

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Abortion Rights Groups Scramble In Stupak Amendment's Wake

AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Abortion rights groups, outflanked and outnumbered in the health debate, are scrambling to regain lost ground after the House passe...

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Send a Coat Hanger to an Anti-Choice Democrat

Howie Klein | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stupak Amendment, Anti-Choice, Blue America, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Politics News

We're urging you to sign a petition to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid regarding the 20 formerly pro-choice men who voted for the virulently anti-choice Stupak Amendment last Saturday.

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If You Have Donated To The RNC Since 1991, You Have Funded Abortion

Melinda Warner | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Abortion Rights, Rnc, Stupak Amendment, Health Care Reform, Michael Steele, Health Insurance, Pro-Choice, House Health Care Bill, Republicans, Politics News

Using the RNC's logic, every person who has donated money since 1991 has also funded abortions, because a portion went towards the employer's portion of each employee's health care premium.

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Bart Stupak, Leave My Daughter Alone

Michael Kieschnick | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

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Why would twenty men with positive ratings on past votes from Planned Parenthood vote for the horrendous Stupak amendment? I have no idea.

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No, Rachel, No! This "Health Reform" Could Lose the Middle Class for Dems

RJ Eskow | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Health Reform, Rachel Maddow, Mitt Romney, Mike Elk, Health Care, Stupak Amendment, Politics News

If Democrats and progressives are really concerned about middle-class votes -- and they should be -- it's statements like a recent pronouncement by Rachel Maddow that should concern them.

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Will Stupak Abort Health Reform?

D. Brad Wright | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Stupak Amendment, Health Care Reform, Politics, Health Care, Health, Politics News

Let me begin by making it very clear that I value all life--potential or fully realized--but that I am also pro-choice. How can this be? Well, unlike ...

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RNC Insurance Plan Covers Abortion

AP | CHRISTINE SIMMONS | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nrcc, Republican National Convention, Rnc, Stupak Amendment, Health Care Reform, Gail Gitcho, Bart Stupak, Cigna, Elective Abortion, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Republican National Committee's health insurance plan covers elective abortions for its employees, an option Republicans strong...

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Stupak-Pitts Is Not Worth Killing Health Care Bill

Lanny Davis | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stupak Amendment, Health Care Bill, Abortion, Pro-Choice, House Health Care Bill, Politics News

I am hoping Rep. DeGette and others will look at the big picture and ask themselves: Would I vote against this bill if I or a member of my family had no health insurance?

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Blue Dog Democrats Dominate House Health Care Debate

The New York Review Of Books | Michael Tomasky | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

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So what did the House Blue Dogs do on the health care vote last Saturday? They were more supportive than one might think: Of the fifty-two-member coal...

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The Big Fights and the Big Benefits in the Bill

Mike Lux | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Individual Mandate, 2009 Obama Administration, Public Option, Stupak Amendment, Politics News

The good news is that under all the hullabaloo of the public option fight and the horrendous Stupak amendment, there is actually a lot of good things that are pretty well-settled assuming a bill gets passed.

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Stupak's Flaccid Amendment Needs No Viagra

Shannyn Moore | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Todd Lamb, Stupak, Health Care Reform, Stupak Amendment, Viagra, Obama, Oklahoma, Cstreet Family Fraternity, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News

The suggestion coming out of Washington is for women to buy supplemental insurance to cover an unwanted pregnancy. Really? Should the other gender do the same?

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HuffPost Editor Roy Sekoff Discusses The Sarah Palin Coin Controversy On The Joy Behar Show

Huff TV | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media

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HuffPost Editor Roy Sekoff appeared on The Joy Behar Show Wednesday night to talk about religion in politics and the controversy surrounding Sarah Pal...

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Abortion Rights Supporters In Congress Request Talks With Obama

AP | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Abortion Letter, Abortion Health Care, Abortion Health Debate, Abortion Rights, Abortion Health Bill, President Obama, Abortion Debate, Stupak Amendment, Health Care Reform, Pro-Choice Caucuse, Obama Abortion, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Abortion rights supporters in Congress are asking President Barack Obama for a meeting next week on abortion restrictions included ...

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