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41 House Dems write letter to Pelosi vowing unequivocally to vote against bill with Stupak amendment: http://tinyurl.com/yek23ft =] 11/11/2009 |
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RT @TheUndomestic: Good! "In Letter To Pelosi, 41 House Dems Pledge To Vote Against Bill w/Anti-Abortion Amendment" http://bit.ly/3AlswV 11/10/2009 |
41 House Dems Pledge To Vote Against Bill With Abortion Amendment
The Political Carnival —
... Via Greg Sargent, we get a peek at a no-wiggle-room letter to Nancy Pelosi has been signed by 41 House Democrats (emphasis mine): The Honorable Nancy Pelosi Speaker U.S. House of Representatives H-232 Capitol Washington, DC 20515 Dear Madam Speaker: As members of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus, we believe that women should have access to a full range of reproductive health care. Health care reform must not be misused as an opportunity to restrict women’s access to reproductive health services. ...
Dem Women Threaten Health Care Passage Over Stupak Amendment Storm
Taylor Marsh —
... Greg Sargent foreshadows the battle that is just beginning, offering up the “working draft” of a letter to Pelosi laying down the gauntlet. ...
Abortion rights side draws a line in the sand
Ben Smith's Blog —
... Greg Sargent reports on a letter from 41 House Democrats that reads in part, "We will not vote for a conference report that contains language that restricts women’s right to choose any further than current law." ...
41 Dems Vow To Oppose HCR If It Includes Stupak Amendment
TalkLeft —
Greg Sargent: A source sends over a working copy of the letter without the signatories, and the source says it currently bears the signatures of 41 House Dems. They’re all vowing to vote No on a bill if it contains the Stupak amendment — enough to sink the bill: [. . .] The Stupak-Pitts amendment to H.R. 3962, The Affordable Healthcare for America Act, represents an unprecedented and unacceptable restriction on women’s ability to access the full range of reproductive health services to which they are lawfully entitled. ...
House Dem: Conference committee will strip Stupak amendment
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... he would likely vote for ObamaCare even with abortion subsidies, as long as he got a chance at an up-or-down vote. Had the Republicans voted “present” and defeated the amendment, Stupak and his coalition would have provided enough votes to pass the bill — with the abortion subsidies. The GOP managed to force the Democrats to abandon the abortion industry in its vote, which is why Wasserman-Schultz is now demanding that a conference committee strip the provision from the bill. As Greg Sargent reports , she’s not alone, either: In a move that will intensify the coming war ...
Pro-choice Dems fire back
First Read —
... Some 41 pro-choice House Democrats have signed on to a letter headed to Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk that states their intention to vote against a conference committee report if the Stupak-Pitts anti-abortion amendment remains as is, according to a draft of the letter obtained by Greg Sargent. ...
What a Trainwreck
Shakesville —
And now the fate of healthcare reform hangs in an intra-party fight over abortion: In a move that will intensify the coming war over how to treat abortion in the health care bill, more than three dozen House Dems have signed a letter to Nancy Pelosi firmly pledging to vote against the bill if it contains an anti-abortion amendment. A source sends over a working copy of the letter without the signatories, and the source says it currently bears the signatures of 41 House Dems. They're all vowing to vote No on a bill if it contains the Stupak amendment — ...
Abortion Insurrection
The Page by Mark Halperin —
istockphoto Forty one House Dems pen letter to Pelosi pledging to oppose conference health bill if it includes Stupak amendment.
‘Top Line’ -- Abortion-Rights Groups ‘Asleep at the Wheel?’
The Note —
... More than 40 House Democrats are telling House Speaker Nancy Pelosi they won’t vote for anything “that contains language that restricts women’s right to choose any further than current law,” Greg Sargent reports at The Plum Line blog. ...
"Pro-Choice" McCaskill Could Support Stupak Coathanger Amendment
Daily Kos —
... McCaskill also needs to talk with her pro-choice colleagues in the House who take a far less sanguine view of this legislation. In a letter to Nancy Pelosi, a draft of which was provided to Greg Sargent, 41 House Democrats are pledging to vote against a final bill if it contains this amendment. ...
House Democrats Revolt
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
"In a move that will intensify the coming war over how to treat abortion in the health care bill, more than three dozen House Dems have signed a letter to Nancy Pelosi firmly pledging to vote against the bill if it contains an anti-abortion amendment," Greg Sargent reports. ...
41 Democrats Sign Letter Stating They Will Not Vote for Conference Bill Containing Stupak Amendment
Ace of Spades HQ —
41 Democrats Sign Letter Stating They Will Not Vote for Conference Bill Containing Stupak Amendment Ah... okay. But they also said they wouldn't vote for a bill that didn't contain abortion-funding, and they just did that. Ultimately they will pass the bill without the amendment and the supposed pro-life Democrats will just say "We don't need to deal with this yet, it will be years before the plan is actually implemented, we will work on improving the bill until then." And then they won't. Or they'll take a bunch of votes that go nowhere, just to get it on the record "they ...
House Democrats Say They Will Not Vote for Final Bill if Stupak Amendment Is In It
The Moderate Voice —
House Democrats are laying down the gauntlet on abortion rights (emphasis in original):
A source sends over a working copy of the letter without the signatories, and the source says it currently bears the signatures of 41 House Dems. They’re all vowing to vote No on a bill if it contains the Stupak amendment — enough to sink the bill:
As Members of Congress we believe that women should have access to a full range of reproductive health care. Health care reform must not be ...
Goodie, a new pledge from "progressives"
Corrente —
Plum Line:
Now we know — at least 41 House Dems are writing directly to Pelosi, telling her that they will not vote for anything “that contains language that restricts women’s right to choose any further than current law.”
I’m told that the letter is still being circulated for even more signatures, and I’ll bring you a list of signatories when I have it.
The Stupak amendment, of course, would sharply curtail the availability of abortions, which many insurance plans now offer, and was added in order to win the support of moderate Dems. That ...
Obama gets squishy on abortion
Betsy's Page —
... insurance as private plans find they can't compete with a public plan that can regulate prices and use the taxpayers' money to make up shortfalls, then those who want an abortion plan wouldn't be able to depend on their private options. The fact that pro-choice Democrats are so outraged indicates that they don't truly believe their soothing promises about how nothing will change about our private plans once a public option is enacted. However, one more thing I don't believe is that these 41 Democrats who are writing Nancy Pelosi with their threats will remain strong about not ...
Tuesday morning links, posted early
Maggie's Farm —
... Some insurance plans cover abortions? News to me. That's strange. Abortion is a totally elective procedure. Doc, I have a little growth in my uterus. What do "rights" ...
Conservatives May Create The Horrors They Warned About In Health Care Reform
Liberal Values —
... , the Democratic chief deputy House whip, does predict that the Stupak amendment will be stripped from the final bill. If not, this could doom health care reform as at least forty-one House Democrats have now pledged to vote against the bill if the restrictions on abortion rights are not removed. For now it appears that Obama does not like the Stupak amendment but w ...
In letter To Pelosi, 41 House Dems pledge to vote against bill with anti-abortion amendment
AMERICAblog News —
Which is good news, since today we also learned that the White House spokesman Robert Gibbs didn't have an opinion on the extreme anti-abortion provision that was added to the House health care reform bill at the least minute. They didn't have a position. Unbelievable. Then later in the day, the President "clarified": Saying the bill cannot changed the status quo, the President said "there are strong feelings on both sides" about an amendment passed on Saturday and added to the legislation, "and what that tells me is that there needs ...
Checkmate
Stubborn Facts —
... will be willing to buck the leadership and vote down Obamacare when the bill comes back from conference without the Stupak language. If they do, however, and if the 41 who signed this letter stick to their guns, then it's checkmate for Obamacare. The bill can't pass with the Stupak language, and it can't pass without it. ...
The New Health Care Bill Might Not Cover Women's Health But Orrin Hatch Insists On Paying For Voodoo Sessions
DownWithTyranny! —
... The big health care reform talk since Saturday night's passage of the House Bill has been about the attempt of the Republicans with the connivance of 64 anti-choice Democrats to severely restrict-- in fact, to take away-- women's health options. By Monday morning 41 progressives had signed a letter to Pelosi vowing to vote against a final bill if it includes the reprehensible Stupak-Pitts anti-choice amendment. ...
Senate will not pass Stupak amendment
Open Left - Front Page —
... The battle over the Stupak amendment will take place in the conference committee. Supposedly, the White House is in favor of removing the Stupak amendment. Also, supposedly there are enough House Democrats to kill the overall health care bill if the Stupak amendment is not removed. Further, Stupak himself has claimed that there are enough votes to pass the health care bill in the House without the Stupak amendment. Right now, it certainly seems as though the tide is turning against Stupak, and his chances of victory before the end are less than 50%. ...
11/10: This Will Not Stand
Blogometer —
... , as President Obama iterates in this interview -- this bill is not intended to change Hyde." However, other liberal bloggers are upset that Obama expressed support for the status quo: Meanwhile, liberal bloggers are pleased that 41 House Dems have pledged to vote against the final health care reform bill if it includes Stupak's amendment: Conservative blogger ...
POLITICS: Democrats Divided on Abortion
Baseball Crank —
... Rep. Diana DeGette (Colo.) said she has collected more than 40 signatures from House Democrats vowing to oppose any final bill that includes the amendment -- enough to block passage.
"There's going to be a firestorm here," DeGette said. "Women are going to realize that a Democratic-controlled House has passed legislation that would prohibit women paying for abortions with their own funds. . . . We're not going to let this into law."
The Post's in-house left-wing activist, Greg Sargent, has a copy of the letter. DeGette has the pledged ...
Democrats Divided on Abortion
RedState —
... (Colo.) said she has collected more than 40 signatures from House Democrats vowing to oppose any final bill that includes the amendment — enough to block passage.
“There’s going to be a firestorm here,” DeGette said. “Women are going to realize that a Democratic-controlled House has passed legislation that would prohibit women paying for abortions with their own funds. . . . We’re not going to let this into law.”
The Post’s in-house left-wing activist, Greg Sargent, has a copy of the letter. DeGette ...
What We Missed
Feministing —
... Breaking news: more than three dozen House Dems have signed a letter to Nancy Pelosi firmly pledging to vote against the bill if it contains an anti-abortion amendment. ...
House Democrats Backing Abortion Restrictions Received Significant Campaign Cash From Pro-Life Groups
Capital Eye —
... (D-Colo.), co-chairwoman of the Pro-Choice Caucus within the House, is rallying her colleagues to vote against the final, conference committee version of the health reform legislation if the abortion language remains intact. She has reportedly gathered pledges from 40 other Democratic lawmakers to do just that. ...
Schakowsy Will Vote Against Bill with Stupak
Daily Kos —
Keeping the pressure on the Senate and the eventual conferees on healthcare reform, Jan Schakowsky is the first among the 40+ House Dems who signed a letter to Pelosi to vowing a no vote on a bill with Stupak to reveal herself. Greg Sargent: Some 41 House Dems have signed a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi vowing a No vote on a bill with Stupak, but it’s not known who the signatories are. Schakowsky’s office confirmed that she’d signed the letter — and since her voice carries weight with House liberals, it could ...
Casey Hints He Will Oppose The Stupak Amendment
Wonk Room —
... If the Senate bill retains its current abortion compromise, it’s likely that the conference report will include similar language. Already, 41 House Democrats have sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), vowing to vote against the final conference report if it contains the Stupak amendment. ...
Casey Hints He Will Oppose The Stupak Amendment
Think Progress —
... If the Senate bill retains its current abortion compromise, it’s likely that the conference report will include similar language. Already, 41 House Democrats have sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), vowing to vote against the final conference report if it contains the Stupak amendment. ...
Health care primer: A snapshot of the toughest fights ahead
Iowa Independent —
... Indeed, the Stupak provision is poised to cause more havoc in the House than the Senate, with some House liberals vowing to oppose the larger bill if the language survives the conference negotiations, while Stupak and other anti-abortion Democrats are hinging their support on the provision remaining intact. Satisfying both camps for the sake of the bill’s passage will likely require some delicate wording from Democratic leaders. ...
Abortion, the Public Option and Immigration: Hairy Compromises in the Healthcare Debate and What the Senate May Do About Them
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash —
... In the Senate, a hypothetical Nelson-Casey Amendment wouldn't have as many procedural hurdles as Stupak-Pitts had, which only got onto the bill thanks to allowances by the House Democratic leadership. Senators generally have more power to offer amendments. Yet with the 41 signatures of pro-choice Democrats in the House who say they will not vote for final passage of the bill if it contains a Senate version of the Stupak-Pitts amendment , Reid and others may think twice about voting for its passage as an amendment. The Public Option There has been some criticism that the public ...
