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The Real Victims of Stupak-Pitts

By Dr. Suzanne Poppema, Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health

November 20, 2009 - 7:00am

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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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Truth Is Indeed One of the First Casualties of War

By Jon O'Brien, Catholics for Choice

November 19, 2009 - 9:37am

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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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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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Anti-Choice Groups Misuse Guttmacher Data To Make A Faulty Case

By Adam Sonfield, Guttmacher Institute

November 13, 2009 - 7:00am

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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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The Other Fight in Health Reform: Immigrants' Access to Medical Coverage

By Silvia Henriquez, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health

November 13, 2009 - 7:00am

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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 If this isn't addressed, the final bill will be outdated before the President’s ink dries.

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Another Doctor Mad As Hell

By Dr. Susie Baldwin, Physicians for a National Health Program

November 12, 2009 - 7:00am

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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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Stupak-Pitts: Trampling on Faith and Conscience

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

November 11, 2009 - 7:00am

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

By Eesha Pandit, MergerWatch

November 11, 2009 - 7:00am

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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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Where's the Birth Control?

By Sharon Lerner

November 6, 2009 - 6:00am

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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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What Catholics Really Want in Health Care Reform

By Jon O'Brien, Catholics for Choice

November 3, 2009 - 7:00am

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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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