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@msaczawa Shorter version is that Stupak is doorway to loopholes that would essentially block abortion coverage. http://bit.ly/45wOIR 12/9/2009 |
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RT @nvance Great post by Jessica Arons on @wonkroom -4 reasons why the Stupak Amendment is a monumental setback http://ow.ly/B1Cr #fem2 #hcr 11/11/2009 |
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Why The Stupak Amendment Is A Monumental Setback For Abortion Access http://bit.ly/rYp3f 11/10/2009 |
Jessica Arons: Why The Stupak Amendment Is A Monumental Setback For Abortion Access
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... only protects those who are unwilling to provide such services.
One in three women will have an abortion in their lifetime. Eighty-seven percent of employer plans offer abortion coverage. None of that will matter if the Senate takes its cues from the House. In every other way, this bill will expand access to health care. But for millions of women, they are about to lose coverage they currently have and often need.
This piece was originally posted on The Wonk Room.
What the Stupak-Pitts Coathanger Amendment Does
Daily Kos —
... What's the harm, some say? It only makes sure that federal funding doesn't go to providing abortion, right? Wrong. Here's Jessica Arons, Director of the Women's Health and Rights Program at American Progress. ...
"First They Came"
Some Guy With a Website by August J. Pollak - xoverboard.com —
... I've been fighting both a cold and an army of internet idiots for the last 48 hours, both of which contributed to the lateness of today's strip. But for anyone who truly has any doubts (or more likely a severe case of denial about the idea that the Democrats would have done this), please enlighten yourself. Not only does the Stupak amendment remove access to abortion services for millions of women, it primarily does this ...
Controversial Stupak Amendment Sows Anger, Confusion On Capitol Hill
TPMDC —
... That could reduce private insurers' incentive to offer any comprehensive plans that cover abortion. This is the view articulated by Jessica Arons, Director of the Women's Health and Rights Program at the Center for American Progress, and adopted by some lawmakers on the Hill. Arons writes, "As the vast majority of Americans in the Exchange will need to use some of these credits [aka subsidies], it is highly unlikely any plan will want to offer abortion coverage." ...
1965 Blackout Anniversary
The Garlic —
... said one theory was that the failure had been in automatic frequency control equipment.If it occurred today, obviously, it would be some grand plot of the Obama Administration, to take over the electric grids, and dictate what people can do in their own homes. Back then, we only got some innocuous UFO reports. And, no doubt, some Ignorant Dolt of a PartyofNoican would probably use it to seek dissing woman, and ban abortion in this country. ...
More On Stupak's Amendment
2 Political Junkies —
... from day one. "It's a somewhat open question about how those two provisions would interact," Arons says. For the two measures to work in tandem, she says, either every plan in the exchange would have to be prevented from offering abortion coverage, or the guaranteed issue provision would have to be modified. "I would think there would have to be some sort of specific exemption to the guaranteed issue provision," Arons says. There's more from Arons at the Wonk Room - including something the OPJ has already posted: The claim ...
The Stupak Stupor
Commondreams.org Views —
... points out. In the Stupak amendment, the exceptions to the coverage ban read as follows: rape, incest or "where a woman suffers from a physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness that would, as certified by a physician, place the woman in danger of death." The Center for American Progress's Jessica Arons writes , "Given insurance companies' dexterity in denying claims, we can predict what they'll do with that language." And in case you wonder what that leaves out entirely: "Cases that are excluded: where the health but not the life of the woman is threatened by ...
Matt Finkelstein: GOP Women Shamelessly Accuse Dems Of Being Anti-Woman
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... statisticians and actuaries.
The Pelosi
health care plan aims to have an impartial, all-knowing federal government make
decisions that cannot be trusted to mere housewives (and their greedy,
small town doctors).
For McMorris Rodgers and Jenkins to gripe about anyone disrespecting women is laughable. In addition to last weekend's theatrics, every single Republican
member of the House voted for the so-called Stupak
amendment, which will impose extreme restrictions
on a woman's right make reproductive ...
The Sad Saga Of Tom Perriello, A Confused And Dishonest Man, Lost In A Political Nightmare He's Spiritually Unprepared To Navigate
DownWithTyranny! —
... as co-founder of the progressive Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good or from being badly misquoted in a New York Times article following the 2004 election. I firmly believe that abortion should not be criminalized, nor can we allow any action that seeks to coerce women by reducing access to care or making the process less safe. The emphasis is mine. But that is exactly what Stupak-Pitts does, and quite intentionally, as Perriello well knows. Perriello is in a very tough district, and he beat one the House's most ...
Glenn Nye-- Few Disappointment, Since There Were Never Any Expectations
DownWithTyranny! —
... by his decision to go back on his word to protect reproductive choice for women and vote for Stupak's disastrous anti-choice amendment, a Trojan Horse the GOP managed to inflict on the House Democratic caucus. Today's CQPolitics ...
