Abortion and the Super Bowl. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. Yep, CBS has sold a 30-second Super Bowl spot to the evangelical, anti-abortion, anti-gay activist group Focus on the Family. I suppose they think it’s relevant and acceptable because it features a football player, Tim Tebow, and his mom. Wrong! The Super … Continue reading Super Bowl wrong place for abortion ad
The Roe v Wade decision was handed down 37 years ago today and, unbelievably, women are still having to fight to keep this very personal and very basic right — the right to a safe, legal abortion. In the 21st Century, despite all the advances of medicine, science, law, and education, there are still those … Continue reading Roe v Wade: 37 years and still fighting
The health care reform debate has moved into the Senate now, and so has the abortion issue. The bill that passed the House contained the infamous Stupak Amendment that would deny millions of woman any insurance coverage for abortion, a legal medical procedure in the U.S. The health care reform debate has not stopped for … Continue reading Don’t let the Senate ban abortion coverage
First came the Stupak Amendment. Now come the new mammogram recommendations. Suddenly I’m feeling like the goal here is doing away with health care for women, period. Women do cost more to insure, after all, with all their abortions (we’re all just dying to run out and get one, you know) and mammograms and reproductive … Continue reading Health care reform: for men only
On the Chris Matthews Show this morning,the panelists seemed to think the Stupak Amendment is not a big deal because a relatively small number of women have abortions every year and the Democrats are trying to bring health care to millions. What planet are they living on? Who are they listening to? Stupak is not … Continue reading Stupak: canary in the coal mine
The Stupak-Pitts Amendment, an eleventh-hour addition to the health care reform bill passed yesterday by the U.S. House, prevents any plans in the proposed health insurance exchange from receiving federal subsidies if they cover abortion, and prohibits abortion coverage in the new public option. In other words, millions of women will be denied coverage for … Continue reading Late amendment strips abortion coverage
