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Posts Tagged Abortion

Gridlocked U.S. Senate thin on women lawmakers

By | 11.02.11 | 9:33 am

There are only 17 women in the 100-member U.S. Senate, which is one of so many under-the-radar problems exacerbating gridlock in the dysfunctional chamber, the Huffington Post’s Amanda Terkel reports. By comparison, 17 is the same number of women who presently sit in the 35-member Colorado senate. The upshot, according to the lawmakers Terkel talked to, is that the family, health and poverty issues at the heart of daily national life are inadequately addressed and compromise and problem-solving are reduced to four-letter words.

VIDEO: Huntsman hits Romney on abortion

By | 11.01.11 | 5:57 am

GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman has released a campaign video attacking fellow contender Mitt Romney for his changing positions on issues important to the Republican base.

House engaged in heated debate over Protect Life anti-abortion bill

By | 10.13.11 | 12:17 pm

The debate presently underway on the floor of the House on House Bill 358 is about abortion but also about government overreach. Republicans who support Pennsylvania Rep. Joe Pitts’ bill say the Affordable Care Act passed last year would force taxpayers to fund abortions and pro-life health workers to aid women who have had abortions or want abortions. Democrats say Republican lawmakers are forcing their views on women making personal decisions about their health and that the bill would make it very difficult for women, particularly poor women, to find even private insurance plans that provide coverage for abortion.

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Boehner vows continued fight against abortion

By | 10.09.11 | 5:14 am

House Speaker John Boehner told a crowd of thousands at the sixth annual Values Voter Summit in Washington D.C., that giving birth to 12 boys and girls probably was not convenient for his mother. But she did it, one at a time.

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Congressional Republicans launch Planned Parenthood financial investigation

By | 09.29.11 | 6:23 am

U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns, a Florida Republican and chairman of the House Oversight and Investigations subcommittee, is moving forward with plans to launch an investigation of Planned Parenthood, a national chain of women’s health clinics.

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Pro-life Musgrave group attacks Obama for rescuing NH family-planning services

By | 09.22.11 | 11:26 am

Anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony List this week launched a video campaign against President Obama based on the administration’s move to shore up family planning services in New Hampshire. Social conservatives on the state’s executive council earlier stripped $1.8 million in federal funding from Planned Parenthood affiliates there. New Hampshire officials informed the Obama administration that, in failing to provide key women’s health services, the state was violating federal law.

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DeGette fights GOP ‘big government’ anti-abortion gambit

By | 09.13.11 | 1:18 pm

In a new chapter of the often topsy-turvy story of the Tea Party era, Colorado Democratic US Rep Diana DeGette this week finds herself championing local government rights against Republican efforts to expand federal power. DeGette on Wednesday urged House and Senate appropriations committees staffers to reject legislative stipulations that aim to prohibit the District of Columbia government from using local tax dollars to pay for abortions as part of its employee insurance policies.

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Potential class-action suit against Idaho’s ‘fetal pain’ abortion law could have national impact

By | 09.02.11 | 5:35 am

A 33-year-old Idaho woman is seeking class-action status on a federal lawsuit challenging a new state law that bans abortion after 20 weeks of gestation, made possible by the claim babies are developed enough at that stage to feel pain. There is disagreement among abortion-rights supporters and opponents about whether this claim is based on scientific evidence.

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Santorum: ‘A tree is a tree. Marriage is marriage.’

By | 08.26.11 | 5:25 am

Rick Santorum discusses why no Catholic has ever received the Republican nomination for president and rails against marriage equality.

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In Denver, Knights of Columbus reaffirms opposition to same-sex marriage, abortion

By | 08.05.11 | 3:28 pm

Delegates setting the resolutions for the Knights of Columbus (K of C) again voted to defend traditional marriage and the “sacredness of human life” at the group’s 129th Supreme Convention held in Denver this week. With both controversial issues seen as the most important topics to many of the delegates, some secular and Catholic groups are concerned their agenda is a step in the wrong direction for civil rights.

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