Anti-Choice Amendment: "I Am Confident...That It Won't Be There"

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by Amie Newman

November 9, 2009 - 3:38pm (Print)

Speaking on MSNBC this morning, Representative Schultz (D-FL), sounds certain that the House health care reform bill, passed this Saturday, won't pass final muster with the anti-choice Stupak Amendment in it:

"I am confident that when it comes back from the conference committee that that  language won't be there..."

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Women's Rights Abuses in Afghanistan: Searching for the Full Story

by Jessica Mack
Feb 6, 10:40am
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Global coverage of women's rights abuses in Afghanistan is critical to raising awareness and changing this reality. But what is being done on the ground and at the policy level? What is the good news? The picture is often larger, and more complex, than we see. 

Memo to the Media: No Link Between Birth Control Pills and Prostate Cancer

by Kimberly Inez McGuire
Nov 16, 8:49am
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Yesterday, a new study made headlines claiming that oral contraceptive use is associated with prostate cancer. Scary, right? Wrong... There's no evidence of a link, though that didn't stop media from claiming there is.

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colleen Ouch. I would love to see November 9, 2009 - 6:44pm

Ouch.
I would love to see last night's and today's internal polls on this fiasco. It sounds like a (completely predictable) meltdown.

My guess is that all sorts of elected dems got quite an earful today. Particularly satisfying have been the reports of a complete meltdown in Stupak's offices.

The only difference between the American anti-abortion movement and the Taliban is about 8,000 miles.

Dr Warren Hern, MD