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Cynthia Nixon: The latest Hollywood nitwit to get involved in the abortion debate

19 hours ago ago from Sister Toldjah

Another day, another clueless Hollywood gets involved in the abortion debate : (CNN) It's been a little more than a week since Cynthia Nixon flew back from filming Sex and the City 2 in Morocco, and she's already diving headfirst into the debate surrounding abortion and health care reform. Nixon, a longtime abortion rights activist, says she can't keep quiet about the recent health care bill amendments that would limit insurance ...

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Abortion in the Senate Health Care Bill

17 hours ago ago from Restrained Radical

The treatment of abortion funding under the final Senate bill is complex. The Stupak Amendment in the House bill had prohibited public funding completely, though women can purchase separate abortion insurance. The Senate bill allows states to do the same. States that choose to cover abortion would be required to offer at least one plan that doesn't. Women who pick plans that cover abortion would be required to write two separate checks. ...

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Whatever Happened To George Lakoff?

1 day ago ago from TalkLeft

Anybody know what George Lakoff is up to these days? Anyway, here's Drew Weston : This President just doesn't have the stomach to make anyone do anything they don't want to do (except women to have unwanted babies because they can't afford an abortion or live in a red state and don't have an employer who offers insurance), and his advisors are enabling his most troubling character flaw, his conflict-avoidance. This is an Open Thread.

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What the Abortion Compromise Means for Women :: Pregnancy Tips

11 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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15 hours ago ago from Mask of Zorro, the

Looking for Eric (2009) IMDB rating: 7.50 Plot: Eric Bishop, a middle-aged postman working for the Manchester sorting office, is going through a dreadful crisis. For starters, his second life companion has not resurfaced although she was released from prison a few months ago. He is left alone with two stepsons to look after, which is no bed of roses since the two teens disrespect him and keep disobeying him. To make matters worse, ...

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Cecile Richards: Women on the Verge

19 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

A reporter asked me today if I was surprised that the issue of abortion has become, yet again, the midnight issue in health care reform bills. Once again, at the final hour, women's rights and access have been traded away in the new Senate health care bill. Rights and access that we may not get back anytime soon, if ever. It's hard not to be discouraged when health care access for millions of women is traded away for one vote -- but that's ...

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Both sides question health bill's abortion compromise

14 hours ago ago from Washington Post - Business

The abortion language that was added to the Senate's health-care bill to win the vote of Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) has achieved a rare feat: It is drawing contempt from both sides. This Story That could be taken as a sign that senators finally found an elusive compromise on a thorny issue. But serious questions are already being raised about how the new language would work in practice and whether it would even be ...

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Dealmaking is life blood of health care bill

20 hours ago ago from U.S. News

Dealmaking is life blood of health care bill WASHINGTON (AP) -- Twice, abortion was almost a dealbreaker. This time, it was a dealmaker. But of hundreds of deals cut so health care legislation can stay alive, the hardest to keep may be the Senate's abortion compromise - achieved after 13 hours of negotiation. The volatile issue remains the biggest threat to getting a history-making bill to President Barack Obama. Deals are the lifeblood ...

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