Dems looking to adapt Hyde amendment for health bill

[joeycola]

Source: The Hill




Dems looking to adapt Hyde amendment for health bill
By Michael O'Brien - 10/28/09 11:05 AM ET

House health legislation will ultimately include provisions barring public funding for abortions, a key Democratic leader maintained Wednesday.

Democrats are looking at adopting language similar to the Hyde amendment, which barred using federal funds for abortions, in healthcare reform legislation to placate pro-life Democrats, who have threatened to withhold support for the package unless it included such prohibitions.

"We're working very closely with Bart Stupak (D-MIch.) and that coalition of Democrats to write a the bill in a way that makes it absolutely clear that no public dollars can go to funding abortions as part of the health reform bill," Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), the assistant to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), said during an appearance on Fox News this morning.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/65173-dems-looking-to-adapt-hyde-amendment-for-health-bill-to-placate-pro-life-members

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It is a health care procedure and should be in any health bill. Simple as that.

[Mojambo]

1. I fucking hate anti-choicers. n/t

[Solly Mack]

3. Me too

[saigon68]

11. Stupak is really a POS

You have to watch the guy in action to realize what a low life Fucker he is.

[ThomCat]

17. With a Screaming Purple Passion!

:grr:

Those irrational wack-jobs are far too influential, and dangerous. It is only because of the confluence of sexism and bad religion that the anti-choicers have been able to be so widely accepted and promoted.

I immediately lose respect for anyone I find out is anti-choice. I no longer trust them to be pro-civil rights in any meaningful way, or pro-women's rights (which are, ideally the same thing), or even pro-peace, or in favor of protection for and from religion. Being anti-choice is a clue that people generally have too many flaws in their thinking an beliefs.

It makes me sick that our representatives bow to them, but think that lefties are somehow dangerous. They have the FBI and law enforcement agencies spying on vegans and peace activists! But these monsters who actively try to transform the country into a broken down theocracy, who want to enslave the population in chains of gender-role and stereotype conformity, and who advocate assassinations for people who disagree with them not only avoid being harassed by law enforcement, they succeed in getting legislative approval!

:wtf:

[elocs]

2. If health care reform was simple it would have been done years ago. n/t

[harmonicon]

15. it was in civilized countries

Health care reform is incredibly simple - not much more complicated than other human rights laws. Is allowing women to vote complicated?

[frebrd]

4. Another brick in our rapidly-growing theocracy.

:puke:

[Soylent Brice]

10. i can't think of any way better to comment to this.

[Tesha]

5. I'm getting mighty sick of Democrats who give lip service to "women's rights" but default on all

the actual issues that might require them to *ACT* like Democrats!

Tesha

[rubberducky]

6. We NEED more women in congress. Men voting on what a woman can do with her body?

They love to play but, god forbid they have to pay. But, keep that viagra,levitra, etc. in the bill. What a double standard. Next thing ya know they`ll want ex-tendz(sp?) covered as a perscrition, for thier "needs".

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[sinkingfeeling]

7. Tell me how the hell we've managed to elect a group of sophomoric representatives that don't

understand that existing laws remain in affect and we don't have to add the same crap to every other bill brought to a vote!

[Freddie Stubbs]

13. So, if this amendment changes nothing, absolutley no one should object to it, right?

[sinkingfeeling]

14. This is a delay and attention getting tactic. If we just have to have the words in it that

'no government monies will be spent to provide abortions except in the cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother', then I can't see people getting upset about it. If somebody wants to urge the overturning of the Hyde amendment, then go for it and I'll support them 100%.

I think it's wrong to penalize women who are poor by denying them abortions because they lack money.

[krispos42]

8. What if the abortion is medically necessary? n/t

[IndianaGreen]

12. More appeasement of the rightwing by the Vichy Democrats

FRAK the Bible and FRAK GAWD!

[bluestateguy]

16. This is why I am balking

These Democrats are demanding abortion funding prohibitions in the bill as a condition of their votes. I think that might be plausible for someone like say, Marcy Kaptur, who is anti-abortion, but otherwise a solid New Deal Democrat on other issues. But then you have the folks like Gene Taylor, Bobby Bright, Heath Shuler, Mike McIntyre, Travis Childers (seeing a pattern here?) who are making the same demands, and I bet you, have no intention of voting for the bill anyway, even if their demands are met.

[defendandprotect]

18. We should just do what ever other nation does . . . cover abortions . . .

[Hepburn]

19. Viagra = OK, right?

But money needed for women's reproductive health = no.

Fuck this shit.... :thumbsdown:

[David Zephyr]

20. Pathetic and cruel to women and girls. This pisses me off.

Cruel. Barbaric.