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ohyouprettythings.net - 19 days ago
Bart Stupak Thinks He Knows What I Can Do With My Body
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And Congress is voting to let him make that choice. The amendment, which you can download and read in full here, would do three things. First, it would codify the Hyde Amendment provisions in the bill so that the ban on federal funds being used for abortions besides those resulting from rape or ...
firedoglake.com - 19 days ago
Stupak Amendment Passes; 64 Dems Ask for Primary Opponents
— firedoglake.com — Do you like that headline? Because that’s what I’m feeling right now after the betrayal of my... support for Democrats, now that the Stupak Amendment passed 240 to 194 and with 64 Democrats voting Yea. It’s a fundamental part of our ... (more) Stupak Amendment Passes; 64 Dems Ask for Primary Opponents

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Stupak Amendment Could Likely Be Used By Insurance Companies To Discriminate Against Low Income Americans
fdlaction.firedoglake.com - 19 days ago
Stupak Amendment Could Likely Be Used By Insurance Companies To Discriminate Against Low Income ...
— 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 ... (more) Stupak Amendment Could Likely Be Used By Insurance ...

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dailykos.com - 19 days ago
64 Democrats on the Wrong Side of Stupak-Pitts
— dailykos.com — For future reference, here is the list of Democrats who voted "Aye" on the Stupak-Pitts Amendment. AL-2... Bright, Bobby; AL- 5 Griffith, Parker; AL-7 Davis, Artur; AR-1 Berry, Robert; AR-2 Snyder, Victor; AR-4 AR-4 Ross, Mike; CA-18 Cardoza, Dennis; ... (more) 64 Democrats on the Wrong Side of Stupak-Pitts

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Feministing:  Whose health care victory?

protein wisdom:  “Feminists” are funny [Darleen Click]

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Whose health care victory?
Feministing — ... in the public option. It also prohibits individuals who receive affordability credits from purchasing a plan that provides elective abortions. However, it allows individuals, both who receive affordability credits and who do not, to separately purchase with their own funds plans that cover elective abortions. It also clarifies that private plans may still offer elective abortions. THIS IS FUCKED. NARAL for has more, as does Amanda. As Sarah Jaffe put it, "Bart Stupak thinks he knows what I can do with my body. And Congress is voting to let ...

“Feminists” are funny [Darleen Click]
protein wisdom — Stupid? Vapid? Thoughtless? I’m looking for the perfect combo of words to adequately explain the kind of female who cheerleads the enslavement of American medicine to the Federal Government then shrieks … “Bart Stupak Thinks He Knows What I Can Do With My Body. And Congress is voting to let him make that choice.” * The least of that gal’s worries is that a free paid-for-by-her-neighbors abortion just got struck off her birth-control options list. Feministing, St. Mandy of Pandagon, Feministe … just different notes on the same theme: Their wishes are, of course, your ...

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The list of Stupak Democrats
openleft.com 23 days ago — As I noted yesterday , the House Committee on Rules still has not scheduled a time for a mark-up on the health care reform bill. They have to pass the bill before it goes to floor for debate, and the leadership won't send a bill to the floor until ...
Schakowsky: We're fighting off Stupak amendment
thehill.com 20 days ago — Liberals in Congress are whipping votes to beat back Rep. Bart Stupak's (D-Mich.) abortion amendment, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) said this morning. "We're going to be organizing today to vote against the amendment," Schakowsky told C-SPAN's ...
Stupak On The Stupak Amendment
politics.theatlantic.com 14 days ago — Rep. Bart Stupak's (D-MI) abortion amendment, which passed Saturday night just before the House approved its comprehensive health care reform legislation, has set off a firestorm of criticism from pro-choice lawmakers and interest groups, and it's ...
Pelosi caves to Stupak
hotair.com 20 days ago — How desperate has Nancy Pelosi become for enough votes to pass her ObamaCare proposal this weekend? [...] Read the rest »
[News] Mother-in-law's death prevents Stupak from voting on health care bill — RightMichigan.com -
After signaling for months that he has enough votes in Congress to kill the Health Care Bill, Bart Stupak may not even be in DC to vote.
On Paying For Immoral Things, Or, Is Stupak On To Something? — BlueNC - The people's think tank
There has been a great wailing and gnashing of teeth over the past day or so as those who follow the healthcare debate react to the Stupak/Some Creepy Republican Guy Amendment. The Amendment, which is apparently intended to respond to conservative Democrats’ concerns that too many women were ...
65 Democrats threw women under the bus in the name of Health Care Reform — culturekitchen - fresh dissent served daily
Hot off the Congressional record , here are the names of the 65 democrats who thought it made sense to throw women under the proverbial Health Care Reform bus for the sake of getting the bill into conference. These Democrats voted for the Stupak-Pitts amendment which would : Prohibit ...
KILL THE BILL! — Rathergate.com
Kill it NOW! The GOP needs to vote a strategic “present” or even against the Stupak amendment. We all know it’s a sham. We got your backs GOP. Kill the bill. Kill it tonight. If it lives it will contain abortion before it leaves congress. Everybody knows it. The [...]