Reproductive Rights

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• Health and Justice Now: California Women of Color Demand Health Care for All

  
  RaceWire — Authority: 607
  By Rocio Córdoba and Destiny Lopez During Saturday’s historic vote on health care reform, the House jeopardized the health and well-being of women with the passage of the Stupak amendment, which would eliminate abortion coverage from both private and public health plans participating in the insurance exchange. ...
  5 hours ago

• Must-Reads: Outraged Reactions to Reactionary Stupak Amendment

  
  Majority Post — Authority: 426
  The House passage of health care reform with the dramatically anti-choice Stupak Amendment attached has prompted outcry from women’s rights groups who recognize how dangerous the legislation would be for millions of women and the nation as a whole. Listed here are the WMC’s must-reads on this destructive ...
  7 hours ago

• Catholic Hierarchy Threatens the Capital’s Homeless

  
  Unsilent Generation — Authority: 418
  For the second time in a week, the hierarchy of the American Catholic Church has jumped into sexual politics at a time when conservatives are trying to make sexuality and reproductive rights a divisive issue in health care reform. Last week the Conference of Catholic Bishops got involved in vetting and promoting ...
  8 hours ago

• GOP Sees ‘Win-Win’ as Stupak Splits Dems

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 783
  Anti-abortion protesters in front of the U.S. Capitol (Flickr: John Stephen Dwyer) On Saturday, 64 Democrats backed Rep. Bart Stupak’s (D-Mich.) amendment to prevent abortions from being funded with taxpayer money in the comprehensive House health care bill. On Wednesday morning, House Majority Whip James ...
  12 hours ago

• On choices

  
  Practically Harmless — Authority: 108
  Or, The Stupak, It Burns Okay, so on Saturday night, the House of Representatives told the women of America to get comfortable under that bus, because universal health care is actually going to be defined as universal except for some women, because their ladyparts sometimes require procedures that we find ...
  20 hours ago

• Necessity Defense — Not Necessarily Real

  
  unrepentant old hippie — Authority: 503
  Scott Roeder, confessed assassin of Dr. George Tiller, is a Loser in oh so many ways. He did Operation Rescue’s dirty work and they threw him under the bus. Then his Ebay auction was blocked by babykillers .   Then he confessed to the murder , thinking he had a rock-solid defense.  Now his defense — the ...
  1 day ago

• League of Young Voters Taking Action Against Stupak Amendment

  
  Kevin Bondelli's Youth Vote Blog — Authority: 429
  The League of Young Voters has launched a new online action that enables young Americans who support reproductive rights to contact their Senators in opposition to anti-choice clauses in the final bill. “It was extremely painful for me to feel compelled to vote for a bill that contained that kind of ...
  1 day ago

• Who Has Signed On to DeGette Letter to Block the Stupak Amendment?

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 770
  Rep. Diana Degette (D-CO 1) Rep. Diana DeGette got a lot of publicity for generating a letter vowing to vote against any bill that returns to the House from conference committee with the Stupak amendment intact. She claims to have at least 41 names on that letter, more than enough to block the bill from going ...
  1 day ago

• Senator Claire McCaskill changes position on Stupak after pressure

  
  Feministing — Authority: 727
  Via The Hotline , Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill, after initially stating that despite being pro-choice, she was okay with the Stupak amendment has changed her tune, at least according to her Twitter feed. Text: Oppose Stupak.Dont think we should change current law which is no public $ for abortions,but ...
  1 day ago

• “In Contempt” on The Stupak Amendment

  
  Alas, a blog — Authority: 585
  Posted with the kind permission of Kevin Moore. Click on the cartoon to see it bigger, and to see Kevin’s commentary and links . In addition to Kevin’s comments, I’d point out this post by Ezra , pointing out that (by the weird definition of “subsidize” conservatives are suddenly using), Stupak “did not ...
  1 day ago

• Stewing Over Stupak

  
  Mad Kane's Political Madness — Authority: 497
  This feminist is furious over the abortion-coverage-banning Stupak Amendment to the House health care reform bill. And no, Stupak isn’t a Hyde Amendment-equivalent. It’s the Hyde Amendment on steroids.I’ve never been a third party-proponent. But Stupak’s inclusion in the House bill shows such disregard and ...
  1 day ago

• About that non-vacuum in which Stupak happened…

  
  Reclusive Leftist — Authority: 616
  Kate Harding has a good piece in Salon that captures the PUMA-a-year-later zeitgeist we’ve been talking about here (to recap: A year later, world suddenly gets what PUMAs were talking about , House Democrats pass healthcare reform for men , and Rachel Maddow is becoming post-rational ). Harding’s piece is ...
  1 day ago

• Health Care For All

  
  In Contempt — Authority: 106
  The Stupak-Pitts Amendment to the recently passed House of Representatives health care reform bill denies health insurance coverage of abortion for women subscribing to a “public option” plan or receiving federal subsidies to buy mandated health insurance. So, in effect, the reproductive rights of all women in ...
  1 day ago

• GritTV on Stupak

  
  Feministe — Authority: 647
  Laura Flanders talks about the Stupak amendment with Frances Kissling, contributor to RH Reality Check and Visiting Fellow at the Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania, Diane Archer, Special Counsel & Director, Health Care Policy, Institute for America’s Future, Eesha Pandit of Raising Women’s ...
  1 day ago

• Some of the Good Parts of the Health Care Bill

  
  See Emily Blog — Authority: 120
  Ann at Feministing gives some highlights : Expands Medicaid "to reach a wider range of poor households up to 150% of the federal poverty level. 36M additional Americans will now be eligible for Medicaid." Bars discrimination in health care on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation. Acknowledges ...
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• World Health Organization Releases Major Report on Women

  
  Akimbo — Authority: 526
  Yesterday, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a major report, Women and Health: Today’s Evidence, Tomorrow’s Agenda (download full PDF of report at link). The report was announced at a high-level international meeting in Geneva this week by WHO Director-General, Dr Margaret Chan. IWHC President ...
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• Health Care and the Politics of Anti-Choice Activists

  
  People For the American Way Blog blogs — Authority: 464
  Anti-choice politics have become dangerously entangled with health care reform as evidenced by the troubling vote in the House of Representatives over the weekend for the Stupak-Pitts amendment. The legislation makes it virtually impossible for private insurance companies participating in the proposed new health care ...
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• Health Care for All --- Except You, Lady!

  
  Autist's Corner — Authority: 410
  On Sunday, the House of Representatives passed the Democrats health-insurance reform bill , but not without some "collateral damage," to use Echidnes phrasing . The bill that was passed contained an amendment, the Stupak-Pitts amendment (full text here ), which would bar any government-sponsored health ...
  2 days ago

• Abortion and Health Care Reform: How The House Bill Forces Women to Accept Less Coverage Than They Already Have

  
  Fem2pt0 : societys issues + womens voices — Authority: 113
  Posted with permission from WomensTake.org Last week it seemed that a compromise had been reached between abortion rights supporters and opponents. The compromise was based on the idea that health reform is so important that no one would try to use a single controversial issue as an excuse to bring the whole ...
  2 days ago

• AG Coakley: A Champion for Women

  
  Women and Politics — Authority: 495
  By WCF Fellow: Trish It is undeniable that WCF-endorsed candidate Martha Coakley is a champion of affordable, quality health care. She has been for two decades. As Attorney General, she reached a... This is a content summary only. Visit Women and Politics for the full post!
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