Can Any Self-Respecting, Progressive, Pro-Choice Woman Vote for HR 3962?

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sent by meg since 11 days 7 hours 10 minutes, published about 10 days 21 hours 59 minutes
I'd say voting for HR 3962 was better than the alternative -- up until this weekend, at least. I probably would have held my nose and followed the cue of Pelosi. That is, until she sold herself, myself and every other civil rights-minded woman in the country down the river with the Stupak Amendment. As I pointed out last week, the House bill already compromised the hell out of women's reproductive rights with the Capps Amendment. The Capps Amendment effectively cemented the Hyde Amendment, a 30-year-old measure the National Organization for Women (NOW) terms "abusive." The Capps Amendment forced the exchange to contain at least one private insurance option that specifically excluded abortion services as well another which expressly included it, in every market. But House Democrats allowed groups from the religious right to shamefully spin the Capps compromise into an abortion mandate by lying about it.
tags: health care, insurance, abortion, women
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  1. #1    Q: Can Any Self-Respecting, Progressive, Pro-Choice Woman Vote for HR 3962?

    A: Nope! Nor can any self-respecting, progressive, pro-choice man vote for HR 3962!

    Remember, Reps. Kucinich and Massa (D-NY-29) DIDN'T vote for HR 3962 and they DIDN'T vote for the Stupak amendment.
    written by hterrya since 11 days 6 hours 49 minuteshterrya
  2. #2    Right now, instead of moaning about it, GET ON your Senator's phone machine and Inbox. This ammendment can be stripped out by the Senate and kept out of the reconcile. But pressure NOW is essential.
    You might point out to them that this means that ALL insurers are banned from covering pregnancy termination, not just federally funded ones. And that THAT has Constitutional implications. That this IS government meddling in the Medical side of Healthcare, exactly where it doesn't belong.
    written by CwV since 11 days 6 hours 6 minutesCwV
  3. #3    Obama-care, in return for a few loopholed promises, takes a trillion dollars and a woman's right to choose. It is wholly the Democrats' plan, and it is evil.
    written by Mike5000 since 11 days 2 hours 22 minutesMike5000
  4. #4    John Murphy who was the independent candidate for House of Representatives in the 16th Congressional District of Pennsylvania in 2006 and 2008 sums it up in his article.

    http://www.counterpunch.org/murphy11092009.html
    written by helptheimmoral since 10 days 21 hourshelptheimmoral
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