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Initial Reports Indicate No Stupak Amendment in Reid's Senate Bill

By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor

November 18, 2009 - 8:49pm

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Early indications are that the Senate health reform bill introduced by Majority Leader Harry Reid preserves the "status quo" and does not include a version of the Stupak amendment.

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Hatch Plans to Introduce "Stupak-like" Amendment in Senate...Again

By Robin Marty, RH Reality Check

November 18, 2009 - 8:50am

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Utah Senator Orin Hatch announces he will introduce a Stupak-like amendment to the senate health care reform bill. But will anyone support him?

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NARAL Delivers Over 97,000 Signatures to Reid in 3-Day Petition Drive

By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor

November 16, 2009 - 3:40pm

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NARAL Pro-Choice America delivers more than 92,000 signatures to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid calling on the Senate to reject Stupak-Pitts language in its health reform bill.

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New York Times Article Misses the Point(s) On Stupak Amendment

By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor

November 16, 2009 - 11:13am

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An article by Kathleen Seelye in today's New York Times titled "In Congress, a Predicament for Abortion Supporters," can now be added to the growing list of media analyses that fail to accurately portray the implications of the Stupak amendment should it become law.

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The Democrats’ Own Trojan Horse Kicks Free

By Gloria Feldt, www.GloriaFeldt.com

November 16, 2009 - 7:00am

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I am not convinced by after-the-fact reassurances that the final health reform bill will not include the Stupak amendment. That’s because the table for expanding prohibitions on abortion was set by the Democrats themselves.

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Dear Mr. Stupak: Do You Trust Women?

By Hilary Hammell and Anat Shenker

November 16, 2009 - 7:00am

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We must make legislators the protagonists in the abortion debate by changing the frame, and asking Stupak and his allies: Do you trust women?

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Roundup: Michelman and Kissling in the New York Times; Keenan Discusses Stupak on "Talk of the Nation"

By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor

November 12, 2009 - 2:27pm

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Prochoice leaders Michelman, Kissling, and Keenan take the Stupak debate to the New York Times and National Public Radio

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GOP Sees Win-Win as "Stupak Bomb" Splits Dems

By David Weigel, New Journalist Project

November 12, 2009 - 11:45am

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In interviews, Republicans made clear they want to kill health reform and see an alliance with Conservative Democrats as the best way to make it go down in flames. The Stupak Amendment “dropped a bomb” in the Democratic conference.

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Weekly Pulse: The Stupak Setback

By Lindsay Beyerstein, RH Reality Check

November 11, 2009 - 1:59pm

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A clique of anti-choice Democrats in Congress joined forces with Republicans to pass an amendment forcing women to choose between affordable health insurance and abortion coverage, even if they pay for abortion coverage with their own money. Pro-choice Democrats and women’s health activists are up in arms over the eleventh hour deal

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(VIDEO) McCaskill's "Clarification" Further Confuses

By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor

November 11, 2009 - 11:56am

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There are many Democrats who can be counted on to show their cards to the opponent, equivocate, vacillate and wave the white flag before the game has even started, as did Senator McCaskill this week on the Stupak Amendment.

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