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The Note: The Note's Must-Reads for Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Brilliant at Breakfast: Barack Obama, unlike Nancy Pelosi, doesn't want to sacrifice women's health care on the altar of "reform"
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The Note's Must-Reads for Tuesday, November 10, 2009
The Note —
... Friedman: “Abortion Rights Activist Say Stupak-Pitts Amendment Would Hurt Women’s Rights” LINK
ABC News’ Z. Byron Wolf: “GOPer Collins Opposes House Dems” LINK
Politico’s Carrie Budoff Brown and Jonathan Allen: “Senate faces abortion rights rift” LINK
The New York Times’ Sheryl Gay Stolberg: “Democrats Raise Alarms Over Costs of Health Bills” LINK
The New York Times’ Robert Pear: “Obama Seeks Revision of Plan’s Abortion Limits” LINK
The Hill's J. Taylor Rushing: "Senate Democrats look to start health reform debate ...
Barack Obama, unlike Nancy Pelosi, doesn't want to sacrifice women's health care on the altar of "reform"
Brilliant at Breakfast —
I know that whatever emerges from Congress is going to be one big fat wet kiss on the behind of the insurance companies, but I am encouraged, even if only for a moment before he caves, that Barack Obama doesn't think that women's healthcare needs to be sacrificed in order to pass a bill: ...
A.M. Roundup
Capitol Confidential —
... President Obama wants Congress to revisit abortion provisions included in the House version of the health care bill. (NYT) ...
Early Word: Fort Hood Service
The Caucus —
... in the Senate as it was in the House. Some in the moderate wing of the Democratic caucus are seeking “airtight language in the bill blocking federal funding for the procedure,” the two report, with Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska — arguably the most conservative Democrat in the Senate — saying he would vote against any bill that did not clearly bar federal funding for abortion. And speaking of centrists, as The Times’s Robert Pear reports, Democrats’ hope of scoring the support of Senator Susan Collins , a moderate Republican from Maine, for that chamber’s health care ...
Obama agenda: Pragmatism vs. ideology
First Read —
... “President Obama suggested Monday that he was not comfortable with abortion restrictions inserted into the House version of major health care legislation, and he prodded Congress to revise them,” the New York Times also notes. “‘There needs to be some more work before we get to the point where we’re not changing the status quo’ on abortion, Mr. Obama said in an interview with ABC News. ‘And that’s the goal.’” ...
Obama skeptical of Stupak amendment
Ezra Klein —
... Barack Obama is hinting that he wants to see the Stupak amendment revised. “There needs to be some more work before we get to the point where we’re not changing the status quo," he said to ABC News. Congress needs to be sure that it's “not restricting women’s insurance choices.” ...
Obama Expresses Reservations About Stupak Amendment
Liberal Values —
Yesterday it appeared that Obama was willing to accept the Stupak amendment which would restrict funding of abortion by private insurance companies if this was the cost of passing health care reform. On an interview with ABC News he has expressed reservations about the restrictions:
President Obama suggested Monday that he was not comfortable with abortion restrictions inserted into the House version of major health care legislation, and he prodded Congress to revise them.
“There needs to be some more work before we get to the point where we’re not changing the status quo” on abortion, Mr. Obama said in an interview with ABC News. “And ...
