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Blogs Comment On State Abortion-Coverage Bills, ‘Personhood’ Measures, Other Topics
The following summarizes selected women’s health-related blog entries. ~ “Abortion, Health Insurance and the States,” Nick Baumann, Mother Jones’ “Mojo”: There has “been a bit of confusion over what, exactly, health care reform has allowed states to do in terms of regulating health insurance coverage,” assistant editor Baumann writes…
Videos Discuss Antiabortion Threats, Benefits Of Health Reform For Women
The following summarizes selected women’s health-related videos. Maddow Examines Violent Threats: On Tuesday, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow discussed a potential connection between violent anti-government threats and antiabortion-rights activism. Maddow reports that a Washington man was arrested after leaving anti-health-reform messages that called Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash…
Abortion Coverage Debate Moves To The States
The debate over insurance coverage for abortion is moving to the state level, with “lawmakers in at least six states” pushing for a ban on the coverage that goes beyond provisions in the new health law, The Wall Street Journal reports…
Several States Consider Bills Prohibiting Abortion Coverage In Health Plans
Although the federal health reform law (HR 3590) includes several restrictions to ensure public money is not used for abortion coverage, antiabortion-rights lawmakers in several states are pushing for legislation that would prohibit abortion coverage in health plans, the Wall Street Journal reports…
Tenn. Lawmakers Advance Bills On Abortion Clinic Anti-Coercion Signs, Abortion Coverage In Health Exchanges
On Wednesday, the Tennessee Senate voted 29-2 and the state House voted 87-8 in favor of bills (SB 3812, HB 3301) that would require abortion clinics to post signs alerting women of a Tennessee law that prohibits coercing a woman into having an abortion, the AP/Memphis Commercial Appeal reports…
Democratic Majority ‘Not The Same’ As Abortion-Rights Majority, The Nation Opinion Piece Says
The “picture that emerged” from the health care reform debate “wasn’t pretty” for abortion-rights advocates, who “found that they don’t have the influence [in Congress] many assumed they did,” author and contributor Sharon Lerner writes in an opinion piece in The Nation…
Democratic Majority In Congress Does Not Ensure Protection Of Abortion Rights, Newsweek’s Kliff Writes
As “intraparty fissures over abortion threatened to derail” health reform, it became “painfully clear” that a Democratic majority in Congress “does not mean a strong abortion-rights majority,” Newsweek staff writer Sarah Kliff writes in an opinion piece…
Nuns Have ‘Complicated’ Role In Abortion-Rights Debate, Slate Opinion Piece States
To “liberal Catholics disenchanted with the church,” a letter from a group of nearly 60,000 Catholic nuns supporting the Senate health reform bill’s (HR 3590) abortion language “looks like a welcome feminist upswell from within one of the world’s most patriarchal organizations,” Slate copy editor Noreen Malone writes in an opinion piece…
U.S. Lags Behind Many Nations In Abortion Policies, Discourse, CRR President Northup Writes In Opinion Piece
During the debate on health care reform, there was “no policy discussion … from a medical — as opposed to political — perspective on why abortion services should or should not be covered in health insurance plans,” Center for Reproductive Rights President Nancy Northup writes in a CBS News opinion piece, adding that “too many in Congress can’t discuss abortion in any but absolute terms…
Stupak Defends Health Reform Role Against Criticism From All Sides
Antiabortion-rights Democrat Rep. Bart Stupak (Mich.) is “taking fire” from both sides of the abortion-rights debate after supporting an agreement with the White House on the heath reform law’s (HR 3590) abortion-related language, the Wall Street Journal reports…