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The Media on Stupak-Pitts: Theatrical, Not Factual

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

November 11, 2009 - 7:00am

In the midst of foaming-at-the-mouth at the political give-and-take in health care reform, many prominent pundits neglected to properly inform the public that Stupak's language allowed for a major incursion into women's rights.

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The First of All Liberties: Health Care For All Women’s Needs

By Eesha Pandit, MergerWatch

November 11, 2009 - 7:00am

Why care about women’s health in health care reform? The reasons why were best captured by the 19th century Swiss poet and philosopher Henri Frederic Amiel. He wrote: “In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.”

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Stupak-Pitts: Trampling on Faith and Conscience

By Rev. Dr. Carlton W. Veazey, Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice

November 11, 2009 - 7:00am

The Stupak Amendment isn’t only about trampling on women’s rights and lives, as devastating as that is. It’s also about trampling on their faith and conscience.

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Harkin: Stupak Amendment A Slippery Slope

By Lynda Waddington, New Journalist Fellow

November 10, 2009 - 2:33pm

Stupak-Pitts is a slippery slope: For example, every health insurance company in America could now lose some of its tax benefits. And you could just say that anybody that got a federal loan for housing could not get an abortion.

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Midwestern Health Advocates Speak Out on Stupak-Pitts

By Robin Marty

November 10, 2009 - 2:18pm

Pro-choice advocates abided by an agreement not to seek changes to the Hyde Amendment in health reform. Anti-choice factions broke their end of the bargain.

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The "Real Life" Effects of Stupak-Pitts: An Analysis by Legal Experts at Planned Parenthood

By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor

November 10, 2009 - 8:41am

What are the real-life effects of the Stupak-Pitts amendment to the House health care bill? An analysis by experts on health law, and reproductive and sexual health issues, shows just how far it goes.

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Religious Tyranny Shames Religion

By Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check

November 10, 2009 - 6:00am

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has debased itself by turning into a lobbying group of the most aggressive and inappropriate sort.

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The Reaction To Stupak: What's Really Pissing Me Off

By Meteor Blades

November 10, 2009 - 6:00am

"Irrational." "Hypersensitive." "Hysterical." The tone of comments on Daily Kos around the abomination known as the Stupak-Pitts Amendment is: "Calm down, little lady. Get real. Be adults. Doncha know how politics really works?"

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(VIDEO) With Friends Like This... McCaskill Says Stupak Amendment Not That Bad

By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor

November 9, 2009 - 4:59pm

Is a Senator who says she's pro-choice short-circuiting efforts to beat the Stupak Amendment in the Senate by conceding the point less than 48 hours after the disastrous vote in the House on this amendment? Is she signaling for the White House?

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Will the Stupak Amendment Affect Insurance Coverage for Miscarriages? I Think So

By Robin Marty

November 9, 2009 - 11:04am

By banning private insurers in the public exchange from covering "abortion services," the Stupak Amendment will affect women with incomplete miscarriages. Like the one I faced last month.

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Why The Stupak Amendment Is A Monumental Setback

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

November 9, 2009 - 10:11am

The Stupak Amendment potentially goes farther than any other federal law to restrict women’s access to abortion. The claim that it only bars federal funding for abortions is simply false.

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Peace & Persuasion

By Cristina Page, Moderator, OnCommonGround

November 9, 2009 - 7:00am

Of all the domestic pursuits of Obama's first year, his common ground efforts on abortion have possibly been the most thankless. If he's going to succeed in the abortion conflict he's first got to confront those who perceive common ground as a threat.

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The Stupak Amendment: An Assault On Women

By Charlotte Taft

November 9, 2009 - 6:00am

The Stupak-Pitts amendment would actually result the loss of abortion coverage many women already have because it prohibits the new private insurance market as well as any possible public option from providing such coverage.

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"This Is Only the First Salvo In the Bishops Campaign Against Women's Health"

By Jon O'Brien, Catholics for Choice

November 8, 2009 - 9:58am

This is only the first salvo in the bishops’ campaign against women’s health. Just imagine for a moment what healthcare will look like when the bishops are finished.

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The Answer to Stupak? Overturn Hyde Now

By Frances Kissling

November 8, 2009 - 12:08am

Our biggest defeat since 1973 was enactment of the Hyde Amendment and the lack of an uncompromising commitment to overturning it. If nothing else, we must now make overturning Hyde the single objective of our movement.

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