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Why The Stupak Amendment Is A Monumental Setback For Abortion Access
Why The Stupak Amendment Is A Monumental Setback For Abortion Access
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org — Our guest blogger is Jessica Arons , Director of the Women’s Health and Rights Program at the... Center for American Progress Action Fund. Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) If you thought that just because abortion is a constitutional right and part of ... (more) Why The Stupak Amendment Is A Monumental Setback For ...
Will the Stupak Amendment Force Women Who've Miscarried to Lose Insurance Coverage? I Think So
rhrealitycheck.org — By banning private insurers in the public exchange from covering "abortion services," the Stupak Amendment will affect... women whose pregnancies have already ended but have not yet miscarried. Like the one I faced last month. (more) Will the Stupak Amendment Force Women Who've Miscarried ...
Letter From House Dems Pledging To Vote Against Bill With Stupak
theplumline.whorunsgov.com — November 7, 2009 The Honorable Nancy Pelosi Speaker U.S. House of Representatives H-232 Capitol Washington, DC 20515... Dear Madam Speaker: As members of Congress we believe that women should have access to a full range of reproductive health care. ... (more) Letter From House Dems Pledging To Vote Against Bill ...
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Sunday Late Night: Stupak, Defined
Firedoglake — ... Stupak (n) – The sepsis commonly experienced after unsafe back alley abortions Today, Urban Dictionary has posted this definition: 2. Stupak: A medical condition (subset of sepsis) resulting from unsafe – unnecessarily ...

The Early Word: Calendar Crunch
The Caucus — ... is the future of the Middle East peace talks if Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas does not run for reelection as he has threatened. Word Wars: Urban Dictionary, an online database of slang words and their definitions, has become the latest spot for political mud slinging. The liberal blog, FireDogLake, notes that as the House voted on the Stupak Amendment, an effort to appease anti-abortion lawmakers, online linguists coined a new definition of “Stupak.”

"Stupak" makes it in to the Urban Dictionary
2 Political Junkies — ... condition (subset of sepsis) resulting from unsafe - unnecessarily so - back alley abortions as a result of the "Stupak Amendment" to the 2009 Health Care Reform Bill."Or is it: adj: imposing religious beliefs of one group on another, especially through legislation or financial pressure.How about: To do something ridiculous, silly, moronic, stupid, asinine, idiotic, etc.You can vote up your favorite definition here. Personally, I'm torn between the first two defintions, but for this ...

Bart “Sepsis” Stupak
Suburban Guerrilla — I’m Bart Stupak, and I own every one of these uteruses Via atrios, let’s help Back-alley Bart Stupak achieve the same humliating ignominy as Rick Santorum. Pass it on: from now on, “Stupak” means: A medical condition (subset of sepsis) resulting from unsafe – unnecessarily so – back alley abortions as a result of the “Stupak Amendment” to the 2009 Health Care Reform Bill. Doctor: Unfortunately, while this would have been covered under private insurance ...

Santorum Stupak
HorsesAss.Org — Already up at the Urban Dictionary: Stupak–A medical condition (subset of sepsis) resulting from unsafe – unnecessarily so – back alley abortions as a result of the “Stupak Amendment” to the 2009 Health Care Reform Bill. Doctor: Unfortunately, while this would have been covered under private insurance carriers, public plans were barred from including women’s health measures. I’m sorry, you’ll have to see “Dr. Julio” in the alley behind 7-11. (Three weeks later.) Doctor: I ...

More On The Stupak Amendment
ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES — Mcjoan at Kos has a good post on what it might mean. The big question mark is about its possible impact on abortion coverage in employer paid group plans. That would depend on how the markets change in general. For new definitions of the term "Stupak," see Urban Dictionary. ...

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Until last weekend's health care vote in the House, Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan was one of those worker bee congressman from a working-class district who would not normally find himself the pivotal figure in a critical juncture of American history. The eight-term congressman from a ...