In oranges and women courage is often mistaken for insanity - Iron Jawed Angels
In an astounding act of misogyny, the US House of Representatives added the Stupack Amendment to HR 3200, passing the most sweeping health care reform bill while simultaneously stripping women of their human rights and dignity. Once again demonstrating our government’s willingness to play politics with women’s bodies and women’s lives.
I have to agree with [...]
Anti-abortion democrats are threatening to kill health care reform if there is any chance that federal funding might go towards funding abortion procedures. (see this) Millions of people in the US go without adequate health care because they can’t afford it and these uptight white boys are going withhold health care reform that would at [...]
Of all things. The Christian Defense Coalition started a campaign this month, “Abortion is not health care” in order to keep public money from paying for abortion in any health care reform that actually gets passed. These people really are a bunch of crackpots. If abortion is not health care, why are only doctors (and [...]
I am truly sick of all the pandering to the right-wingnuts that is going on in the government these days. The debate on health care reform has gotten ridiculous with wingnuts claiming that the reforms will ‘kill your grandma’ by forcing older folks to submit to euthanasia or that senior citizens will be denied treatments [...]
It’s nice when there’s good news in the news for a change!
First, the US Senate is moving toward legislation that will get rid of the global gag rule permanently. The back-and-forth that has ensued from this dispicable policy may finally be coming to an end. The rule prohibits any agency that receives US foreign aid [...]