Chris Matthews corners Rhode Island Bishop Thomas Tobin, who has banned Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., from receiving Holy Communion due to his views on abortion.
In the interview Mathews exposes the moral hypocrisy at the heart of the Church's abortion position: If it's really and truly murder, you're talking about prosecuting' [...]
I have been writing for months that the acid test for this effort lies less in the publicized fight over the public option or the issue of abortion coverage than [...]
Small sample below, the rancor of the right pushes Ohio to elect extreme right idealogues.
Voted YES on making it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime. (Feb 2004)
Voted YES on banning partial-birth abortion except to save mother’s life. (Oct 2003)
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How the Stupak Amendment Violates The Establishment Clause
First, the Amendment violates the Constitution's separation of church and state. The anti-abortion movement is plainly religious in motivation, and its lobbyists and spokespersons represent religious groups, as is illustrated by the fact that the most visible lobbyists [...]
Saying that nobodys ever said it would be easy, Sen. Sherrod Brown predicted that a final health care bill will be on President Obamas desk by Jan. 10 at the latest but possibly yet this year.
With abortion coverage restrictions part of the House bill and some Senate centrists [...]
Barack Hussein Obama said yesterday that Congress needs to change abortion-related language in the health care bill passed by the House of Representatives this weekend. Yes, Mr. Obama wants you, the taxpayer, to join him in paying for infanticide.
“I laid out a very simple principle, which is this is a [...]
What the first part of the legal mandate that the Stupak Amendment would impose is not new. It echoes the law laid down back in 1976 by the Hyde Amendment, which already forbids the use of federal funds to pay for most abortions. The [...]
U.S. Senate candidate Jennifer Brunner today assailed moderate U.S. House Democrats for including an anti-abortion plank in a bill narrowly approved Saturday that would overhaul the nations health care system.
Brunner, the Ohio secretary of state and a candidate for next years Democratic nomination for the Senate, took dead [...]
After months of work by House Democrats on major health care legislation, the floor debate on the bill was at risk of being overshadowed by an internal dispute among Democrats over the issue of abortion. In the end, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi decided that abortion opponents would [...]
Here’s the roll call.
I didn’t live-blog the vote because my instincts told me it would work out similarly to cap and trade, where Nancy Pelosi’s biggest decision was who to allow to vote “no” in the interest of protecting her party’s electoral majority.
In terms of Ohio, she must think [...]
It’s hard to believe we’re sitting here on a Saturday — with an enormous Democratic majority in congress — facing the possibility that an entire group of the women most in need of legal abortions won’t be able to get them with insurance they have paid for, because they are [...]
From Bryan/College Station, Texas (video is at link):
Planned Parenthood has been a part of Abby Johnson’s life for the past eight years; that is until last month, when Abby resigned. Johnson said she realized she wanted to leave, after watching an ultrasound of an abortion procedure.
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