Michelle Kraus: Strange Bed Fellows: Health Care Reform and the. How did women’s reproductive rights become the bargaining chip for health care reform in this country? Federal funding for clinics is essential to the future of women’s reproductive rights and health. The Stupak Amendment slams women back to a time of unsafe abortions. What is the President thinking? Didn’t we fight this battle before and wasn’t it put to rest decades ago? And what alliances were forged that put women’s reproductive rights into play yet again? Yet somehow, women’s reproductive care became the oil thrown on an already smoldering fire. Why did reproductive services become the wedge issue in the passage of health care reform? Feminists For Choice. Feminist Peace Network. Women's Issues - All About Women's Issues. Writes Like She Talks.
Mirabile dictu. Obama Against Choice. Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin holds down a tough seat for pro-choice Democrats. She’s in an R+9 district, and that’s a tough thing to do for a pro-choice woman. But the Democratic establishment are now out to torpedo any woman who sticks up for choice. Steve Hildebrand — Obama’s Deputy Campaign Manager, who called up rich donors and told them to cut off 527s during the campaign — is threatening to primary her if she defends a womans’ right to choose from Ben Nelson’s assault: Hildebrand, deputy national campaign manager for Obama’s presidential campaign, told CNN in an exclusive interview that he has been frustrated with Herseth Sandlin’s voting record for some time, especially her decision to oppose the House health care reform bill in November.
The House is expected to vote again on the issue later this week and a Herseth Sandlin spokesperson has said she plans to vote no again. Let’s just be very clear about what’s happening here. Bullshit. Breaking: Kucinich To Vote Yes. U.S. National Profile. Despite the demonstrable importance and ubiquity of contraception, the truth is that ensuring that every pregnancy is wanted and planned is difficult, at both the individual and the societal levels.
For the typical American woman to have two children, she will spend about five years pregnant, postpartum or attempting to become pregnant, and three decades—more than three-quarters of her reproductive life—trying to avoid pregnancy. Not all women, however, are successful: About half of all pregnancies in the United States each year—more than three million of them—are unintended. At least half of American women will experience an unintended pregnancy by age 45, and, at 2008 rates, one in 10 women will have an abortion by age 20, one in four by age 30 and three in 10 by age 45. Nonetheless, contraceptive use can and does dramatically reduce women’s odds of having an unintended pregnancy. For more information see Contraceptive Needs and Services, 2010. Womanwarrior007. NARAL Pro-Choice America: Advocates For Youth - Where do we go from here? By James Wagoner, President, Advocates for Youth More than with any recent bill in Congress, this fight over health care reform is as much about legislative procedure as it is about the substance of the bill itself.
The Senate is likely to pass its version of health care reform in the next few weeks – without new, unnecessary restrictions on abortion coverage, but with $50 million in restored funding for ineffective and ideologically driven abstinence-only-until-marriage programs. After that, the Senate bill must be merged with the health care reform bill passed by the House of Representatives last month… And here’s where it gets tricky. Congress could: • go through its normal (and potentially lengthy) conference process, though this leaves approval of the final bill open to a filibuster in the Senate and would likely require 60 votes to pass The honest answer here in Washington is that we don’t yet know which way Democratic leaders in Congress will decide to go.
MOMocrats™ It all started with a smart, heated post cross-posted to the MOMocrats from Advocates for Youth (AFY), lambasting the Obama administration and the Secretary of Health and Human Services’ decision to override the FDA’s recommendation to offer Plan B as an over-the-counter drug. Plan B, of course, is known as the “day-after” pill, preventing the implantation of a fertilized egg in the womb, much as can happen randomly in any woman’s cycle without influence by any medicines. In backchannel emails, we each weighed in.
Glennia: I'm all done making excuses for Obama. I can't even begin to describe my disappointment with Sebelius right now. ...I would have written something, but Kate said it all [in the Plan B post on MOMocrats], as far as I'm concerned. Julie: This is a lot of how I feel too. But then again, I'm the one who kept saying he was a lot more conservative than gossip had him. I was worried about a lot of issues. Still this stunned me. Or I'm a big sucker. Yep, I get it. Bart Stupak: I Don't Listen To Nuns | RHRealityCheck.org. In two interviews yesterday, Michigan Congressman Bart Stupak revealed a great deal about himself, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, politics and the internal workings of our “pro-choice” Democratic party.
First, in what shouldn’t be surprising to anyone, Stupak told Fox News that he doesn’t listen to nuns. Why would he? They’re only women, after all. And we know the men run the institutional Catholic church. If they didn’t, there wouldn’t be an international pedophilia scandal. Yesterday, according to ThinkProgress: “60 leaders of religious orders representing 59,000 Catholic nuns” sent a letter to federal lawmakers urging them to pass the Senate health care legislation. Bart, however, consults the experts in controlling women: Men of privilege. According to Fox: Consult the nuns? The Hill reports that “Leading a revolt against President Barack Obama’s healthcare legislation over abortion has been a “living hell” for Rep.
Welcome, Mr. “I’m a little surprised,” Stupak said. Michael Moore: My Congressman, Bart Stupak, Has Neither a Uterus. Friends, I live in Michigan, in one of the 31 counties represented in the U.S. House of Representatives by none other than Mr. Bart Stupak, a Democrat. You've probably never heard of him. He's a pretty quiet guy, a former Michigan State Police trooper who boldly decided to run some 18 years ago as a Democrat in a rural part of Michigan that votes almost exclusively for Republicans (yes, I know -- what am I doing here? I'll save that story for a future letter). His voting record is pretty conservative for a Democrat, but he's had a few shining moments. But the good people of this area knew Bart's story and understood: He's been touched personally by gun violence. Yet, here we are, just days before a weak, simple-minded, but now ultimately necessary health care bill has a chance of making it through Congress -- and Bart Stupak is threatening to derail it because he wants to make sure that no woman who buys her own insurance with her own money is able to have a medically-insured abortion.
NOW, BlueAmerica Back Stupak Challenger. The National Organization for Women is getting behind the candidacy of Connie Saltonstall, a Democrat challenging Rep. Bart Stupak (Mich.) in a primary campaign. Stupak, who has been leading a campaign against health care reform because the final bill doesn't include an abortion amendment he wrote, may be the first politician to draw a primary opponent for his position on health care. Saltonstall has been endorsed by BlueAmerica PAC, a top clearinghouse for online donations, and is reaching out to the blogosphere, holding a live-chat Wednesday afternoon at Crooks and Liars hosted by digby.
"I absolutely think she can win," NOW President Terry O'Neill told HuffPost. Michigan voters, said O'Neill, are "appalled" that Stupak would try to derail health care in a state with surging numbers of uninsured, and use the health care debate as an opportunity to roll back abortion rights. Saltonstall is using Stupak's health care posturing as a key election issue. Pelosi: Stupak Wants Health Care Reform. Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com#/video/politics/2010/0. Making sense of the Stupack abortion amendment in health care re. The entire point of health care reform is to expand access and allow for greater choice but "Democrat" Representative Bart Stupack, with his last minute amendment, may have effectively restricted the right to choice and access to abortion. Representative Stupack, a "C" street resident, went beyond the Hyde Amendment and at the very last moment introduced an amendment to limit insurance companies in the health care exchange from offering "elective" abortion coverage.
Stupack promised that many conservative "Democrats" would vote yes on the health care bill if his amendment would be allowed; 26 of these "Democrats" still voted "no". The vast majority (87 percent) of private insurance companies offer abortion coverage. But if you want or have to get your insurance from the new exchange established by health care reform, there's a good chance you will not have access to abortion coverage. The amendment is confusing, but the bottom line is that it will more than likely end up limiting choice. Hyde Amendment. On October 22, 1993, President Clinton signed into law the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1994.[3] The Act contained a new version of the Hyde Amendment that expanded the category of abortions for which federal funds are available under Medicaid to include cases of rape and incest.[4] Effect on low-income women[edit] State actions[edit] States that fund abortions State funds abortions voluntarily State funds abortions under court order The cutoff of federal Medicaid funds prompted some states to provide public funding for abortion services from their own coffers.
Related laws[edit] The Hyde Amendment inspired the passage of other similar provisions extending the ban on funding of abortions to a number of other federal health care programs. The Stupak–Pitts Amendment, an amendment to the Affordable Health Care for America Act, was introduced by Democratic Rep. See also[edit] References[edit] Dingell says he'll work to defeat Stupak's abortion efforts - Th. Veteran Democratic Rep.
John Dingell vowed Saturday to work to defeat fellow Michigan Rep. Bart Stupak (D) on abortion in the healthcare bill. Dingell, the longest-serving member of the House whose career has centered around healthcare reform, said he would work to "beat" Stupak's efforts to add additional restrictions on federal support for abortion to the healthcare bill before the House. "I strongly disagree with Bart," Dingell said during an appearance on MSNBC. "I think he's wrong. " Stupak and a bloc of Democrats who oppose abortion rights had been wrangling with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other Democratic leaders on Friday night to add additional provisions to the health bill that would add rules restricting federal subsidies under the plan from going to subsidize purchasing plans that cover abortion services.
After Democrats had appeared set to press forward with their bill without Stupak and his allies, the leadership appeared to backtrack on Friday. Pro-Choice Caucus livid at talk of deal with Stupak on abortion. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Friday evening met with a visibly angry Pro-Choice Caucus amid rumors from Democratic aides that the Speaker was working on a last-minute deal with Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) to give his abortion language a separate vote. Leadership aides, including those in the Speaker’s office, would not comment, but a senior Democratic aide directly involved in the abortion debate said Pelosi appeared to have agreed to give Stupak a vote on an “enrollment resolution” offered by Rep.
Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), a key Stupak ally. Kaptur’s resolution contains the same abortion language that Stupak successfully attached at the 11th hour to the House healthcare bill in November. Were the resolution to pass the House, it would instruct the Senate clerk to change the healthcare bill to reflect Stupak’s more restrictive language to prohibit federal dollars from going toward abortion coverage. Stupak, meanwhile, has scheduled a press conference at 11 a.m. Saturday. Abortion. Who Is Bart Stupak? | RHRealityCheck.org. Today, Representative Bart Stupak’s (D-MI) name has become synonymous with the relentless efforts to include abortion restrictions in healthcare reform. However, before his eleventh hour heist of meaningful healthcare reform last November, if he was known publicly at all, it wasn’t for his work on anti-choice issues.
The trajectory of Stupak’s life is in many ways a classic chapter from the great American success story: Eagle Scout, community college graduate, police officer. He later earned a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from Saginaw Valley State University and then a law degree from Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michiga. While he has been recognized for his leadership in energy-related matters, Stupak’s primary reputation prior to last November has been as a public servant attentive to the concerns and needs of his constituents in the first Congressional district in Michigan–a predominantly rural area whose residents have not been forgotten by their congressman.
South Carolina House Passes Bill Banning State Coverage of Most. In the early morning on Thursday the South Carolina House approved an amendment to the state budget that would ban state insurance policies from covering abortions except to save the life of the mother. The budget proposal submitted by Gov. Mark Sandford, similar to the proposal from the previous year, allowed for state health insurance policies to pay for abortions in cases of rape, incest and to save the life of the mother.
The vote on Thursday was a reversal from a Tuesday vote where an amendment proposing such restrictions had failed. Jessica Bearden is the director of public policy for Planned Parenthood Health Systems, which covers North Carolina, South Carolina and parts of Virginia and West Virginia. Bearden said that the original amendment sponsored by Republican Representative Rex Rice would have imposed a total ban on coverage by the state health insurance plan of all abortions, including those performed to save the life of the mother.
“[Rep. The amendment reads: Reproductive Rights, Parental Rights, and Family Violence: A Dan. This article was updated at 1:44 pm EST to insert a missing paragraph. When do reproductive rights end? Do they end at birth? Do they continue throughout a child’s life? Do reproductive rights extend to parental rights? Most agree that women have a right to control their own bodies. We are actually witnessing an erosion of protections of women and children in abusive relationships. Approximately 100,000 contested child custody cases occur each year in the U.S. Failure to protect In a recent case our judicial system was tested and failed.
If this were only an isolated case, it might end there. Within two weeks of the Garcia-Tagle case, on February 8, 20-year-old Nicholas Bacon shot his nine-month-old son and then himself. Shortly after these two cases, 34-year-old Jesus Roman Fuentes shot his four-year-old son during a court-ordered visitation. And following on these three cases, Mark Resch shot his seven-year-old son during a scheduled visitation and then committed suicide. Mark A. Health Reform Bill Summary: The Top 18 Immediate Effects#s75260#