In oranges and women courage is often mistaken for insanity - Iron Jawed Angels
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.
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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 [...]