By Dr. Suzanne Poppema, Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health November 20, 2009 - 7:00am
In examining rooms, we see women in terrible pain, but their suffering doesn’t count in Stupak/Pitts world. By banishing abortion from the reform bill, the amendment punishes women who need to end unwanted or unhealthy pregnancies.
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By Jon O'Brien, Catholics for Choice November 19, 2009 - 9:37am
I agree with Jim Wallis that the truth has become a casualty in this war--because both Jim and the Catholic Bishops have twisted it. And if Jim Wallis and his conservative allies have their way, women will become another casualty.
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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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Anti-choicers are misrepresenting data from a Guttmacher study to make their case for banning abortion care in health reform. Here's what the data really say about coverage for abortion care.
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By Silvia Henriquez, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health November 13, 2009 - 7:00am
As important as it is, the focus in the media on the abortion ban in the House bill obscures an equally important issue: immigrant access to medical coverage. If this isn't addressed, the final bill will be outdated before the President’s ink dries.
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By Dr. Susie Baldwin, Physicians for a National Health Program November 12, 2009 - 7:00am
Congress is throwing women’s reproductive rights under the bus and catering to religious extremists as it sacrifices the health of Americans on the altar of insurance industry profits.
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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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Why care about women’s health in health care reform? As 19th century Swiss poet and philosopher Henri Frederic Amiel wrote: “In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.”
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None of the bills emerging from either the House or the Senate require insurers to cover all of the elements of a basic gynecological "well-woman" visit leaving out essential care such as pelvic exams, STI counseling and - yes - birth control.
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By Jon O'Brien, Catholics for Choice November 3, 2009 - 7:00am
What some are really doing in the health reform debate is projecting their own vision of what is moral onto those who will be most affected by distorted views and limited coverage: the taxpayers who will fund and use whatever system emerges.
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