tnr.com - 20 days ago
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Opponents of abortion rights won a significant political victory last night , making it more likely that millions of American women will no longer be able to purchase insurance that covers abortion services.
At issue is what happens inside the new insurance exchanges, through which small ...
voices.washingtonpost.com - 20 days ago
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voices.washingtonpost.com —
The final compromises before a bill comes to
the floor are never very pretty. This one, however,...
is worse than I anticipated. Opposition from anti-abortion Democrats, driven in large part by aggressive activism from the Catholic Church, forced ...
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A very bad deal to pass a very good bill
politico.com - 20 days ago
fdlaction.firedoglake.com - 20 days ago
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fdlaction.firedoglake.com —
The Stupak amendment would prevent any private health
insurance plan from covering elective abortion, if even one...
of its customer used even one dollar of affordability tax credits. The problem is that the Stupak amendment will conflict directly with ...
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Stupak Amendment Could Likely Be Used By Insurance ...
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Delay and disrespect: Republicans try to silence women on House floor during health-care reform debate
The Reaction —
... is terrible -- it would, as Jon Cohn explains, "[make] it more likely that millions of American women will no longer be able to purchase insurance that covers abortion services." (Of course, it could still be stripped out of the final bill, but pro-choice supporters of reform may have to accept this compromise, and setback, if they ...
Anatomy of a Health Reform Deal
Swampland —
Don't the Democrats control Congress? How did Nancy Pelosi get to the point where she didn't have enough votes in her own caucus to pass health reform unless she paved the way for language that, as Jon Cohn puts it , "mak[es] it more likely that millions of American women will no longer be able to purchase insurance that covers abortion services"? Some liberals will complain that this is what Democrats get for recruiting more socially conservative candidates to run in red districts. But not all pro-life Democrats are the same. Someone like Tim Ryan from Ohio who has worked to ...
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swampland.blogs.time.com 15 days ago — It's like you never left. How heated are emotions are either side of the abortion debate right now? Some pro-choice liberals have begun referring to the Stupak Amendment as the "Coat Hanger Amendment." And Stupak himself has declared that if his ...
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