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Irrationality vs. Science: The IOM Recommendations

July 25, 2011 - 7:21am (Print)

If you had any lingering hope that the Institute of Medicine could recommend including contraception in the list of preventive services that should be offered without co-pay and not have a hysterical reaction from anti-choicers, I’m afraid I’ll have to dash those hopes.

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Roundup: Louisiana and Virginia Make it Harder to Get Coverage of Abortion

by Rachel Larris

April 23, 2010 - 12:06pm (Print)

The Louisiana House passes a bill that will ban all insurance coverage of abortions while Virginia passes amendment that potentially removes insurance coverage of abortion for state workers and outlaws abortion procedures in a state-run hospitals.

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'Twas the Night Before Conference, When All Through the House....

by James Wagoner, Advocates for Youth

December 24, 2009 - 8:00am (Print)

'Twas the night before Conference, when all through the House...Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The amendments were hung by the manager's chair, In hope that the votes soon would be there.

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Health Reform: Abortion is the Wrong Fight at the Wrong Time

by Rev. Anthony Butler

December 14, 2009 - 9:30am (Print)

It would be a profound tragedy if the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops blocks health reform. Religious leaders and people of faith must stand up for powerful changes that protect families and address the causes and problems of poverty.

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Stupak's NYT Op-Ed: Congresswoman Capps Responds

by Rep. Lois Capps

December 10, 2009 - 8:00am (Print)

Yesterday's NYT op-ed by Rep. Bart Stupak made misleading claims about the Stupak-Pitts Amendment. Here, Congresswoman Lois Capps (D-CA), author of the Capps Amendment, provides a reality check to his claims.

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How the Bishops Lost Sight of Their Own Priorities

by Jessica Arons, Center for American Progress and Center for American Progress Action Fund

December 4, 2009 - 1:00pm (Print)

An analysis of the criteria originally set out by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops as priorities for health reform finds that the Bishops have moved the goal posts on their original insistence that reform be "abortion-neutral."

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

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

November 16, 2009 - 12:13pm (Print)

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 - 8:00am (Print)

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 - 8:00am (Print)

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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(VIDEO) McCaskill's "Clarification" Further Confuses

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

November 11, 2009 - 12:56pm (Print)

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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