In oranges and women courage is often mistaken for insanity - Iron Jawed Angels
The passage of health care reform is an historic victory. But at what price? The most pro-choice president we’ve had in a long time sacrificed low-income women’s reproductive rights for this ‘victory.’ But we can’t just blame Obama:
There has not been a major pro-choice political win at the federal level since Roe v. Wade. [...]
It’s been 37 years since the Supreme Court ruled that a woman had a constitutional right to obtain an abortion, and not a day has gone by that someone, somewhere attempted to whittle away women’s access to that right. While the legality of abortion seems safe enough for the moment, the reality of accessing abortion [...]
With a nice return to sanity, the Nelson-Hatch amendment was tabled by the Senate late yesterday. Nelson-Hatch was the Senate version of Stupack, which will not allow women access to abortion services if it becomes part of the new health care reform. It is a minor victory, but heartening nonetheless.
I didn’t watch or listen to [...]
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 [...]