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Over the past few months, NotUndertheBus.com has been acting as the watchdog in the health care debate, in the media and even on the football field to make sure that women don’t get thrown under the bus.
While the President’s Health Care proposal is not explicit in its stance on abortion, feminists must be on guard to ensure that the Senate language on abortion, which was formed by the Nelson amendment, is not considered as part of the final health care bill.
NotUndertheBus.com, in conjunction with the Women’s Media Center, stands up for women’s freedom to choose and will not support any health care bill that throws women under the bus in the name of health care reform. Abortion is health care and women should not have to compromise their reproductive rights in the name of safe, fair and comprehensive health care.
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Women Must Not Be Thrown “Under the Bus” In the Final Health Care Bill!
Soon, the Senate and House will reconcile their versions of the health care bill. Follow our Senate & House Watch to stay up to date and Get the Facts. Take action now and become A Voice In The Media! Don’t Let Congress Run Over Women’s Health.
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Our Health Care is Central to the Health of America. It Is Not For Sale!
We are the megaphone for the numerous campaigns to stop the Stupak-Pitts Amendment, the most draconian restriction on women since the 1977 Hyde Amendment that cut federal funding for abortions by Medicaid. Check out the Wall page now to see how your efforts defeated the Senate version of the Stupak Amendment — but the work has just begun.
NotUndertheBus.com, a project of The Women’s Media Center, calls on all women and men who support women’s equality to take the initiative and start driving the bus right down Pennsylvania Avenue. Get your voices heard! We must pass health reform that makes women’s health care fair, safe and covered for all.
The Opposition is Not Resting and We Should NOT Rest Either!
Opponents to efforts to keep women’s health care reform fair, safe and covered are out in full force to discredit the message and to persuade the public to oppose health care reform — while throwing women under the bus. The media are scrambling to cover and uncover the news. The New York Times published on Jan. 7 a rather positive sounding front page story about Stupak that Salon was quick to rebuff.
Here is a small sampling of the bigoted brayings from the right and of those who expose them:
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Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) asked Americans to pray that somebody would miss the Senate health care vote (ThinkProgress.org) while
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Rush Limbaugh blasted on Dec. 7, 2009, the House and Senate health care bills’ mandated coverage of “mammograms and other women’s issues [...] including spousal abuse,” calling it the “tip of the iceberg.”
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Here is an open letter by Republican Whip Eric Cantor dated Jan. 6, 2010, calling on all “interested parties” to persuade just a few Democrats in the House and Senate to switch their position and vote against the final version of the bill.
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And also read a post by Adele M. Stan on AlterNet that reveals that Catholic Bishops embrace anti-abortionists Missy Smith and Randall Terry.
