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How the Republican Posture on Health Care May Now Be Hurting the Pro-Life Cause
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I think I’ve finally figured out a way of pissing off both my pro-choice and pro-life readers in one post. Here goes. I believe that if one’s goal is to get health care to reflect the status quo on abortion, the Baucus proposal (reviled by pro-lifers) gets you in the zone. I further believe that…
Dept of No-Good-Deed-Goes-Unpunished (Abortion Division)
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swaldman
Democratic health care proposals in the House and Senate included this novel provision: the new health care exchanges would be required to offer at least one plan that covers abortion and one that doesn’t. Doesn’t that sound even-handed? What I’m hearing is that the pro-choice forces didn’t much like the provision since most parts of…
The Republican Approach to Abortion and Health Care — Fair or Unfair?
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swaldman
In his “chairman’s mark” on health care reform, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus had rejected the pure pro-choice position — he limited direct government funding for abortion — but still included provisions that pro-lifers viewed as supporting abortion. Republicans have offered several amendments to move the health care bill in a more pro-life direction.…
Whitney W. — “Lost my job, depressed, addicted to meds…”
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swaldman
Whitney writes: My life has did a total 360. I went from a person who had everything to a person who right about now..has nothing nothing. Dealing with the lost of losing my job has added so much stress in my life, me not eating, sleeping for long periods, shutting myself out from away from…
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