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12 hours ago ago from < Pregnancy Tips
Home What the Abortion Compromise Means for Women December 21, 2009 |11:33 | Issues By : Team X Democrats in the Senate, including our own Patty Murray (and presumably Maria Cantwell), have said they will support a health care reform bill that, as usual, throws women s health care under the bus. Here, via RH Reality Check, is what the Democrats away to win a filibuster-proof majority (scare quotes because the bill sells ...
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1 hour, 8 minutes ago ago from Publicola
This editorial about the senate version of the health care reform bill supported by all 60 Democrats was written for PubliCola by Dana Laurent , political director for Planned Parenthood Votes! Washington . Eight months ago Planned Parenthood began one of the most aggressive legislative campaigns we’ve ever waged. The goal: Quality, affordable health care for all (and, yes, “all” does include women). When Rep. Bart Stupak’s ...
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22 hours ago ago from California NOW
The so-called health care reform bill now before the Senate, with the addition of Majority Leader Harry Reid's Manager's Amendment , amounts to a health insurance bill for half the population and a sweeping anti-abortion law for the rest of us. And by the way, it's the rest of us who voted the current leadership into both houses of Congress. The National Organization for Women is outraged that Senate leadership would cave in to Sen. Ben ...
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17 hours ago ago from Change.org's Women's Rights Blog
After the addition of a last-minute reproductive rights fail , the Senate health care bill passed today. Sigh. Health reform that thumbs its nose at women's rights and has no public option to be found doesn't exactly inspire me to put on my dancing shoes. But it's been a tough year, and we deserve a little celebration! So stop seething over how much better off we'd be if a sex scandal broke involving Ben Nelson and Joe Lieberman -- ...
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