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I love the quote that is on your “Take Action” page: “It will be 1968 all over again if America’s young women don’t wake up [...].”
So true. We can’t be complacent and say that this doesn’t affect us today. We got to go out there and safeguard the rights that women before us have fought for!
Great site! And it seems that great pro-choice minds think alike – check out what our coalition is doing in Missouri for our Don’t Throw Women Under the Bus Tour Dec. 8- 11 http://www.ppaction.org/ppmoks/notice -description.tcl?newsletter_id=19121862
- we have events scheduled across the state and hope folks will come out and join us as we deliver petitions to Senators Bond and McCaskill asking them to protect women’s access to abortion care and stop the Stupak ban! Folks can also find out about tour information here – http://www.ppaction.org/ppmoks/event-calendar.html.
Thank you so much for pulling all this great information together!
I’d love to see younger women involved in this issue. I’m 51, and I know women in their 70s remember the bad old days. I do, too, but mostly from reading! I think women who have grown up with these protections in place simply cannot imagine what the world will be like without them. The first of some recent letters to the NY Times was beautifully stated:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/07/opinion/l07abortion.html?_r=1
I’m appalled that the president, Congress, pro-choice organizations, and as a result the media are calling the current Hyde amendment restrictions on abortion coverage an acceptable compromise. Fred Clarkson’s excellent commentary http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/2088/from_rightwing_to_prochoice%3A_the_shifting_goalposts_of_%E2%80%98abortion_neutrality%E2%80%99_/?page=entire reveals why it isn’t and how we got into this pickle. Here’s a snippet, but please read the whole article:
“Nevertheless, there was a flaw in the thinking of the president’s coalition…As they sought to find “common ground” on abortion, the president and others were taken by surprise that Hyde did not mean sufficient abortion neutrality to the USCCB and antiabortion Democrats, many of whom have signaled their willingness to sacrifice health care reform over the possibility that any public funds might touch on abortion. It is remarkable that the administration and prochoice and liberal interest groups apparently did not see it coming. As a result prochoice members of Congress and prochoice organizations are fighting merely to preserve the principles of Hyde in the health care bill in opposition to Nelson and Stupak/Pitts. And what do they call it? “Preserving the status quo.”
“It will be 1968 all over again if America’s young women don’t wake up.” I take offense to this quote, because when I was a young woman (I am now in my early 40s) attending numerous pro-choice functions, it was inevitable to hear the question: “Where are all the young women?” Never mind the fact that I was sitting RIGHT THERE. Please do not blame the failure of our country to protect and support women’s reproductive rights on the young women. This is no time for blame – it is time for us to unite and ACT together, regardless of age.
The young women are around, but the issue is very place dependant. Chicago passed a “Bubble” Law – Women seeking reproductive health services as well as clinic workers are protected by an 8′ bubble to prevent street harassment. If the fundies violate our territories, we flash mob them till they retreat back to the suburban hell they call home.
Not only that, all 6 of our congressional representatives, and both US Senators are firmly pro-choice.
It’s the *other* America that’s the problem, and we don’t have a say in how those Sheeple do things.
Clergy back abortion coverage in health reform:
http://www.lohud.com/article/20091213/OPINION/912130332/1076/OPINION01/Clergy%20back%20abortion%20care%20in%20any%20health%20reform
I was born in 1984 and I’m kind of a History Buff. What does that have to do with Women’s Health Care? Well, I’ll tell you. Looking back on all that Women have been through in terms of Legalizing Abortion, being able to get Birth Control, and the like I then looked at what’s going on now with Health Care Refrom. I can honestly say that it hurts me that more women my age are not more informed about issues like this that directly affect them. And I know that some (if not most) of them may be thinking “I don’t know enough about the issues” or “I can’t do anything about it” or my personal favorite “that doen’t effect me.” If I could talk to them directly I’d say to them “get informed- use the internet, do searches, yes you can do something about it, one person may not be able to make a difference, but maybe you’ll be the pebble that’s dropped to make a ripple in the pond, and yes, Virginia it does effect you. Just like Helth Care Refrom effects me and the thousands of other women young and old alike in this country and if we don’t act.” And one last thing. If the Stupak-Pitts Amendment is passed along with the current version of the Health Care Bill, I fear that it will be 1968 all over again and women will be back to using hangers, dangerous drugs, and dish soap to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. I believe that with the advancing years comes progressive movements in human thought and in human rights because as far as I’m concerned Health Care is a basic Human Right. Just like the right to Worship or the right to sit in a restaurant and expect fair service no matter the color of your skin. Because everyone, young, old, rich and impoverished has a right to live healthfuly.
Yesterday’s wrap up report of Senate action from NFPRHA-worth a read to see how the meat grinder of legislation works, and how detrimental the 60-vote rule is to getting anything done.
December 16, 2009, 5:00 p.m. (EST)
As Senate Continues Health Care Reform Debate, Delaying Tactics Reign
Today, the Senate continued debate on its health care reform bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590). Last night an amendment offered by Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) to provide for the importation of prescription drugs did not garner the necessary 60 votes for passage, so while the vote in favor was 56 — 43, the amendment failed. The Lautenberg amendment was intended to improve upon a similar amendment offered by Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) which also failed. Like the Lautenberg amendment, the Dorgan amendment did not get the necessary 60 votes, with the vote in favor only being 51 — 48. A motion by Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID) to recommit the bill (effectively killing the bill by sending it back to the Finance Committee) also failed 45 — 54. An alternative to the Crapo motion, offered by Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) which would protect middle class families from tax increases, passed 97 — 1.
Forward momentum on the bill came to a standstill today in the form of a new stalling tactic from Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK). Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) offered an amendment to establish a single-payer insurance system. Typically, when an amendment is introduced the Senate clerk is waived from having to read the full text of the amendment (this happens with amendments offered by both parties). However, Senator Coburn, in an attempt to delay the process, objected to the waiving of the reading, requiring that the full 767-page amendment be read on the floor. Clerks spent the next three hours reading the amendment, until Senator Sanders finally withdrew his amendment to bring an end to Senator Coburn’s delaying tactic.
The Senate next voted 56 — 41 to table (killing a motion or amendment) a motion to recommit (which would effectively kill the whole bill) offered by Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) and John Thune (R-SD). Following that vote, the Senate moved to the Defense appropriations bill, the only remaining spending bill on which the Senate has not yet acted, as the bill was being held as a catch-all for any last-minute measures such as raising the debt ceiling and continuing support for the unemployed.
While the antics continue on the Senate floor, anti-choice Senator Bob Casey has reportedly been tasked with working behind the scenes to find a “compromise” on the abortion language in the Senate bill. This is of course extremely disconcerting news given that Senator Casey was a co-sponsor of the Nelson amendment (which would have inserted the Stupak language into the bill). Given this information and the President’s pressure on the Senate to reach compromises that allow health care reform to pass, it is a crucial time to contact your Members of Congress, especially Senators, and stress the importance of ensuring coverage and access to family planning services and not restricting access to reproductive health services, including abortion.
NFPRHA will bring you the latest developments in our next email wrap-up tomorrow afternoon. As always, if you have questions or comments about NFPRHA’s efforts, please contact Robin Summers (rsummers@nfprha.org ), Rachel Fey (rfey@nfprha.org ), or Jackie Chimelewski (jchimelewski@nfprha.org ) at 202-293-3114.
I don’t want my taxes going to help out those seeking to rid themselves of a human life. Abortions are not a vital medical procedure and therefore shouldn’t be in any form of a government bill. If you want them. Then you pay for them. This isn’t a trample on womens rights. To make it is a clear violation of morals and standards. These days women are treated the same as men are. Go back to the 60’s or get a life. Thrown under the bus. That’s rich.
Olivia
you say “…..I fear that it will be 1968 all over again and women will be back to using hangers, dangerous drugs, and dish soap to terminate an unwanted pregnancy”. From you point of view you are fearful and I understand it. In 1968, boys and girls, men and women, wsre shunned for being ‘lose as a goose’. Those who engaged in sexual relations ‘as animals do – with anyone and everyone regardless of possible concequences’ carried with it social stigma and health concerns that helped to keep moral degradation of the family to a minimum. I for one welcome back the day of the hangers, drugs, etc…innocent life would not have to be taken and the majority of our women would maybe re-think the attitude that being like a dog is a-okay.
Funny how the anti-life people think that this CBS superbowl ad is endangering a woman’s right to choose. Isn’t the story all about a choice that a woman made? It’s just not the choice your agenda wanted her to make. Talk about hate.
Please support a woman’s right to choose. Pam Tebow chose life… Oh, I get it. The only “correct” choice is the choice of death. Who then is being thrown under the bus? The child!
I thought this website preached tolerance. Tim’s mother exercised her choice to have Tim even though the doctors warned her not to. Doesn’t choice go both ways? Can’t someone have a different opinion without everyone getting all up in arms?
You liberals, marxists,socialists, progressives or whatever else you call yourselves are the perfect example of phony! You claim you want freedoms like freedom of choice(which can’t be found in the constitution), freedom of speech, etc… Then you want to silence opposing voices like the Tim Tebow advertisement. The “right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed”,yet, most of you would take that right away in a heartbeat if you could. I encourage everyone to look into the past of these “Progressive groups” and their leaders. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Lenin….all of these people promoted the same agenda. All believed in population control through abortion. All were strong supporters of gun control. You are for a totalitarian, authoritarian government..are you not?? be honest(many of you wholeheartedly agree with this statement). Also, you so-called “catholics for abortion”…..If you disagree with the holy Catholic church’s statement”life begins at conception”, you are no longer a Catholic….you are de facto excommunicated…if a priest or bishop tells you different he is wrong. He needs to go back to his councils and reread them.
Why does the inspirational story of Tim Tebow so frighten you? Why does it frighten people that some women may decide to choose life instead of abortion? If you’re really about choice, then you would be for any choice, for or against abortion. The facts that we have are so different from 1973 when Roe V Wade was decided. We can now see inside the womb, and science has informed us that life begins at conception. It’s not choice to force hard-working Americans to spend their tax money on someone else’s decision to terminate the life of their baby. It is a rare thing indeed for a woman’s life to be in danger due to pregnancy. I type OBGYN charts for a living. Abortion is killing women. It is hurting them physically and psychologically. Thrown under the bus is exactly what women have been in today’s culture that pushes sex with the lie that there are no consequences. Our sexuality is a gift that should not be abused and to think that a woman can just terminate a life without consequences is ridiculous. Bet you haven’t heard much about the fact that women who have abortions suffer from increased rates of breast cancer, higher suicide rates, mental illness, drug abuse and depression…thrown under the bus indeed!
I am still scratching my head over just what is meant by “Choice?”
Seems to always end up with, according to pro-abortion folk as
only one…terminate the life, otherwise, they would not be all up
enraged over the ad. I do not get it at all.
To call a pro-life group “intolerant” just because they want to run an ad during the Super Bowl is a little hypocritical, to say the least. Is it your organization’s stance that the ONLY choice is pro-abortion?? What happened to the right to have your own opinion? It’s FINE for pro-abortion groups to run ads, but when pro-life groups run an ad, it’s “intolerant” and threatens women’s rights???
It seems if anyone is intolerant in this situation – it is the pro-abortion groups who think their opinion is the only opinion. I will fight just as hard for my right to choose life as you do for your right to choose abortion!
Does noone see the hypocracy here? Are you not pro-choice? IF you are, then you should acknowledge the choice Tebow’s Mom made. But pro-choicers really don’t want “choice” if it isn’t the choice that makes Planned Parenthood rich. Talk about throwing women under the bus – maybe some of you young/not so young women should to an audit of PP and how much $$ they make on the procedures. They are not in it for the “cause of freedom” – hell no, if saving babies made money, they’d flip in a NY minute.
John Doe- If you do not believe in abortion then you have already had a vasectomy performed or your part of the abortion process if unmarried and sexually active. Also, I am forced to see my tax dollars used against women by our government condoning rape of female soldiers and women who work abroad for companies financed by tax dollars to do with military operations. But this is the Lunacy of some male minds. Males do not care if they cause unwanted pregnancies either by consensual unprotected sex or rape, then expect not to have to pay a price down the line. Males are 1 half of the equation in the unwanted pregnancies. If they do not like abortion then HAVE A VASECTOMY.
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RE: the Superbowl ad…. I don’t care what a women does to her body one way or another. However, I do believe in freedom of speech. If you want to be heard, don’t blast others for wanting that too. It undermines your own credibility. Without dialogue and debate and EQUAL fredomes, you give up all rights.
Are you serious? You don’t like my comment, so you’re still leaving it in the “awaiting moderation” category?
CBS WAKE UP , THESE WEIRD RELIGIOS BELIEFS HAVE NO PLACE ON A SUPERBOWL TV SHOW. IF YOU SHOW IT YOU WILL LOOSE MILLIONS OF VIEWERS FOREVER.
JIM JONES WANTS TO PU A SUPERBOWL ADD ON YOUR NETWORK. I GUESS YOU WOULD ACCEPT HIS ALSO?
I am unable to find a definitive source for the bad news about the “new” plan President Obama announced today, but according to Think Progress, the Senate language on abortion funding is acceptable to him. Thanks for nothing, Mr. President.
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/02/22/obama-health-plan/
“But it’s unclear if progressive House members will embrace the new compromise. While the bill addresses House members’ affordability concerns, increases the excise tax thresholds and completely closes the donut hole in Medicare Part D, the legislation does not include a public option, retains the Senate bill’s state-based exchanges and keeps the start date for most reforms at 2014. (Obama’s plan also retains the Senate’s abortion compromise and most other core provisions).”
People, particularly teens tend to communicate more via facebook or text messages. Technology is dehumanizing people. On top of that there is the culture of cruelty; teens can have a tendency to be meaner to their peers. No wonder teens feel and are more depressed. People do not care for each other as much as they used to.