Comments on: I Wonder What Bart Stupak’s Donors Think About Financing Anti-Abortion Activists?

By: mcindc

mcindc — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:59:16 +0000

Jane–THANK YOU for your efforts on this and for your piece on HuffPo re: PP and NARAL. The groups have known from the get-go this was a likely scenario, so its just not credible for anyone to claim that this came up suddenly. They went in with compromise language and hoped no one would notice if they just played nice and stayed quiet. I hope you are willing to take this issue on as well as the public option, because we should be taking a harder line in the Senate but I don’t think any orgs are willing.

By: Larue

Larue — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:29:30 +0000

‘Kin paid concern trolls.

Like The Who, and Fleetwood Mac (pre Nookie and Bucky) penned:

Miles Away. MIles and miles and miles away.

We can see them, miles away.

*G*

By: mickormac

mickormac — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:42:54 +0000

well if a man some how became pregnant that might be life threatening and i could see that as being covered so i guess you are right on that one.

By: mickormac

mickormac — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:40:44 +0000

Not the context i meant. I was thinking more along the lines of compromise. Would be better that the bill fully cover a life threatening disease and not cover an optional procedure than to have neither?

By: Larue

Larue — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:52:14 +0000

Mz. Hamsher, just read your piece at HuffPo today, and now this piece here.

Love it.

On behalf of my wife, women everywhere, and myself, thank you for your fight against this crap.

Retard men, sold out Reps like Eshoo, and all who would deny we the people basic, decent, and world wide recognized rights and care should fear your voice.

You rawhk.

By: letsgetitdone

letsgetitdone — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:04:17 +0000

Because this came up suddenly and women don’t know what’s going on. Without alerts from Planned Parenthood, NARAL, or the veal pen organizations, how are they supposed to find out until after it’s over.

Fortunately, since the subsidies don’t take effect until 2013, if people get angry about this, there will be time to amend the bill and ensure that women have their right to choose protected. However, people need to let the Democrats know that any BS on this point will lead to their defeat in 2010.

By: letsgetitdone

letsgetitdone — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:49:25 +0000

No more choosing the lesser of two evils. Progressives like other Americans want health care reform that ends the deaths, the bankruptcies, the foreclosures and the BS from the insurance companies. Any bill that does less than that should be defeated, and we should do our utmost to get progressives to block all other work in Congress until such a bill is passed.

By: hopeforchangenow

hopeforchangenow — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:32:04 +0000

Why do I have to choose? Men would get both.

By: TPAZ

TPAZ — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:24:05 +0000

Great. Let us keep growing in numbers. If this portion of the bill passes (mandated insurance with penalties) imagine how authroities at the local level can punish the poor for breaking the law until it is challanged in court; deninal of social services, arrest, loss of employment, etc. Jim Crow laws are back, for evil doers, by federal mandate.

By: pluege

pluege — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:24:04 +0000

Dear Representative _____________

I urge you in the strongest way to do all you can to ensure the health care reform bill does not in anyway restrict, deny, or limit a women’s reproductive rights.

There are a large number of immoral and unethical things my government does that I am strongly against including illegal invasion, destruction, and occupation of countries, torture, illegal indefinite detentions, extraordinary renditions, maintenance of “black sites”, illegal spying on citizens, state sponsored murder (a.k.a. capital punishment), and the unnecessary use of less-than-lethal devices such as tasers on citizens to name few. I am strongly and whole heartedly against my tax dollars supporting these, and other immoral and unethical activities. These are all things I really wish my government would not do and I am sick that my tax dollars go to supporting these and other immoral activities.

I find these government activities outrageous and yet another immoral act of my government is being considered: the government denial of using my tax dollars to aid women in need, who are exercising their constitutional rights.

I find the hypocrisy of the anti-choice demagogues pushing such denial on moral grounds astounding in light of their lusty support of all the many immoral and violent activities of the government. It would be tragic for the government to lend credence and support by singling out for denial, the indisputable inalienable right of every man and woman on Earth to have dominion over themselves that is being pushed by these hypocrites.

Once again I urge you not to support their insufferable hypocrisy and faux morality; do not support their invasion and intrusion of a woman’s right to herself; and please make sure the government supports all of women’s rights, including the right to an abortion.

Sincerely,