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• Contact Senator Nelson

  
  race42008.com — Authority: 622
  Let him know you support his opposition to the health care bill as long as it does not include the Senate equivalent of the Stupak amendment. Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) has held strong , and it appears his constituents support his opposition . His contact information can be found here . For those of you who are ...
  13 hours ago

• Stupak Amendment Leaves Women with Less Coverage

  
  American Forum — Authority: 124
  COLORADO EDITORIAL FORUM By Emilie C. Ailts and Vicki Cowart As national health care reform faces its next hurdle -- a conference committee bill that reconciles the House and Senate bills -- we believe its critical to draw attention to a provision contained in the House bill. This provision, brought by Reps. Bart ...
  17 hours ago

• Women Candidates Phone Bank Against Stupak In Mar Vista, CA

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 717
  Kate Anderson - Mar Vista, CA Greetings from Mar Vista, in not-so-sunny Southern California! This afternoon we’re phone banking from the home of Kate Anderson , who’s a candidate for my assembly district in California, We need to do everything we can to get the Stupak amendment out of the health care bill. ...
  5 days ago

• Phonebanking Against Stupak in Austin, Texas: Ya’ll Come.

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 717
  Slinkerwink of FDL Action and DailyKos is hosting a phone bank in Austin this afternoon to stand up for choice in the health care bill. She’s a fellow Austinite, so I paid her a visit. Says Slink: I’m running this phonebanking event because I want to make sure that the Stupak language isn’t in the final ...
  5 days ago

• Join Me in Maryland on Saturday Afternoon for “One Voice For Choice”

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 717
  I’m going to be in Rockville, Maryland on Saturday phone banking for One Voice For Choice against Bart Stupak. We’ve been having incredible response, calling people who are strong Democrats and likely voters, and telling them how extreme Stupak is. A lot of people don’t follow the conversation that closely, ...
  6 days ago

• Op-Ed: A Modest Proposal for the Reform Debate

  
  DOCTOR PUNDIT — Authority: 130
  In an opinion piece in this week’s Newsweek , an economist confronts the latest controversy in the reform debate: the coverage of abortion services for women who accept government subsidies as part of reform. The Stupak provision set in to motion rather heated arguments over just how far taxpayer dollars should go ...
  6 days ago

• One Voice For Choice: Stupak OpEd in New York Times Accuses Opponents of “Scare Tactics”

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 717
  Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Coat Hanger) Yesterday, the NY Times ran self-serving press release op-ed from Congressman Bart Stupak (D-Coat Hanger), in which he claims his harmless little amendment was no worse than current law. The language in our amendment is completely consistent with the Hyde Amendment, which in ...
  1 week ago

• Women’s Media Center: Don’t throw us under the bus to pass health reform

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 626
  The Nelson-Hatch Amendment, which would have barred any health plan purchased even partly with new federal subsidies from covering abortions, may have gone down in a 54-45 Senate vote yesterday , but many of those concerned about women’s health are worried that there was a battle at all. bus (Flickr, cc; ...
  1 week ago

• Rebuked Pro-Choice Nun Still Fighting For Womens Rights

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 688
  Just because she was officially rebuked, she hasnt backeddown. Sister Donna Quinn, the Chicago Roman Catholic nun who was reprimandedlast month for her years of work volunteering as an abortion clinic escort, isstill backing womens reproductive rights, which puts her in opposition to theleadership of the U.S. ...
  1 week ago

• Coat Hangers, Court Cases, And RU-486: Abortion Rights Around The World [Roe Vs. World]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 806
  Yesterday, the city of Berkeley, California sent wire hangers to some members of Congress who voted for the Stupak Amendment — and across the Atlantic, courts prepare to decide whether an Irish abortion ban violates womens human rights. The Berkeley City Council approved the motion on Tuesday, and on ...
  1 week ago

• Franken and Klobuchar vote ‘no’ on Senate ‘Stupak amendment’

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 675
  On Tuesday evening, the U.S. Senate voted 54 to 45 against the Nelson-Hatch amendment, the Senate companion to the U.S. House’s Stupak amendment, which would eliminated abortion services in the health insurance exchange included in the heath reform bill being debated on Capitol Hill. Minnesota Sens. Al Franken and ...
  1 week ago

• Nelson Amendment Fails, But More Obstacles Remain for Pro-Choicers

  
  http://www.doublex.com/blog/xxfactor — Authority: 613
  The Nelson Amendement—the Senates answer to Stupak , which would limit coverage for abortion—was voted down yesterday. On the surface, this seems like a victory for pro-choice forces in the Senate, but Sen. Harry Reid intimates that the fight is not over, and Sen. Ben Nelson is threatening to fillibuster unless ...
  1 week ago

• Obstacles Remain For Pro-Choicers

  
  The XX Factor — Authority: 139
  The Nelson Amendement—the Senates answer to Stupak , which would limit coverage for abortion—was voted down yesterday. On the surface, this seems like a victory for pro-choice forces in the Senate, but Sen. Harry Reid intimates that the fight is not over, and Sen. Ben Nelson is threatening to fillibuster unless ...
  1 week ago

• Kathleen Kennedy Townsend Just Doesn’t Get It

  
  race42008.com — Authority: 622
  A few months ago, I wrote on Townsend’s Newsweek opinion supporting abortion and other non-Catholic beliefs. Now, she’s at it again , this time saying that the American bishops are ignoring health care over what she makes clear are minor concerns over abortion. I don’t understand pro-choice Catholics. ...
  1 week ago

• Editorial: Abortion amendment hurts women

  
  Daily Titan — Authority: 533
  There are few topics that trigger as strong of a reaction as abortion. It remains one of those hot-button topics that continues to be passionately debated no matter what the political climate is like. Recently, abortion has come into the public consciousness once again, this time paired with another issue that has ...
  1 week ago

• The 7 Democrats Who Voted to Restrict Access to Abortion (and the 2 Republicans Who Didn’t)

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 487
  A few moments ago, the U.S. Senate voted 54-45 (with Robert Byrd ill) to kill the Nelson-Hatch Amendment . The Senate equivalent of the Stupak Amendment , it would have prohibited abortion coverage in health care plans. Under the Nelson-Hatch Amendment, if just one single person gets a partial federal subsidy ...
  1 week ago

• Calls Find Many Unaware Their Representative Voted for Anti-Choice Stupak Amendment

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 717
  “He did what? “ I take the phone away from my ear, surprised by both the volume and intensity. “He did WHAT ?” she says again, this time loud enough for the volunteer next to me to hear. She shoots me the evil eye, then moves farther down the couch to continue her own conversation with a voter. The woman ...
  1 week ago

• Ideas that Sound Good in my Head

  
  The United States of Jamerica — Authority: 470
  Much as it pains me to say it, speaking as a Democrat with a Y chromosome, this is a really good point.  I’m not exactly sure how many women voted for the Stupak-Pitts Amendment, but my guess is that the measure had few, if any, supporters from the female portion of the House Democratic caucus.  Likewise, support ...
  1 week ago

• Robert Bowen Presents | The Daily Daily

  
  Kicking Ass Ann Arbor — Authority: 133
  Disclaimer: The opinions expressed herein reflect only the views of the author and do not represent the opinions of the College Democrats at the University of Michigan (UMCD), the Michigan Federation of College Democrats (MFCD), the Michigan Democratic Party (MDP), or the Democratic National Committee (DNC). + The ...
  1 week ago

• It took these guys 350 years to accept the world goes ’round the sun

  
  The Confluence — Authority: 584
  Take a good look at this picture.  These are the representatives of a global organization that is dictating the terms by which a woman’s uterus will operate. These guys, and they are ALL guys, have been in business for 1600 years.  Well, longer than that when you consider that what really happened was that the ...
  1 week ago

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