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By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor November 18, 2009 - 8:49pm
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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By Robin Marty, RH Reality Check November 18, 2009 - 8:50am
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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By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor November 16, 2009 - 3:40pm
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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By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor November 16, 2009 - 11:13am
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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By Gloria Feldt, www.GloriaFeldt.com November 16, 2009 - 7:00am
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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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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By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor November 12, 2009 - 2:27pm
Prochoice leaders Michelman, Kissling, and Keenan take the Stupak debate to the New York Times and National Public Radio
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By David Weigel, New Journalist Project November 12, 2009 - 11:45am
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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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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By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor November 11, 2009 - 11:56am
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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