If you’re as pissed off as I am and want to do something, you can give some money and support to Lois Herr, running against Joe Pitts, co-sponsor of the Stupak-Pitts amendment. Until we scare up a pro-choice woman to run against Stupak, she seems pretty cool.
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what was their point?
democratic men who voted FOR the stupak amendment and AGAINST the final health bill which included the stupak amendement (or, per lgm, “are now on the record as opposing expanded access to health care but who want to make sure that if health care passes despite them it should discriminate against women”:
Jason Altmire (PA)
John Barrow (GA)
John Boccieri (OH)
Dan Boren (OK)
Bobby Bright (AL)
Ben Chandler (KY)
Travis Childers (MS)
Artur Davis (AL)
Lincoln Davis (TN)
Bart Gordon (TN)
Parker Griffith (AL)
Tim Holden (PA)
Jim Marshall (GA)
Jim Matheson (UT)
Mike McIntyre (NC)
Charlie Melancon (LA)
Heath Shuler (NC)
Ike Skelton (MO)
John Tanner (TN)
Gene Taylor (MS)
Harry Teague (NM)
Stupak Amendment
Thank this shitbird for adding the phrase “Supplemental Abortion Coverage” into our discourse.
let’s hope he thought ahead and bought supplemental misogynist asshole coverage, because he’s certainly developed a bad case of that condition.
A bad case sure, but my guess is it was preexisting.
this goes out to people telling me that the amendment was necessary for the overall bill to pass
As usual, if you want to get anything done in America, step one is to sacrifice the mental and physical health of women by making it an Abortion Issue. So although HR 218 passed about forty minutes ago, it passed with an amendment which prohibits any insurance company receiving federal funds from covering abortions. This has the charming effect of probably killing insurance coverage for abortion altogether, notes NARAL:
The Stupak-Pitts amendment makes it virtually impossible for private insurance companies that participate in the new system to offer abortion coverage to women. This would have the effect of denying women the right to use their own personal private funds to purchase an insurance plan with abortion coverage in the new health system — a radical departure from the status quo. Presently, more than 85 percent of private-insurance plans cover abortion services.
Charmingly I expect that in the next few days all your liberal dude friends will be trying to explain to you that this is really no big deal, look, they had to get the Republicans onboard SOMEHOW, this is just a battle but we won the war, etc etc. It all makes me want to crawl back up across the border. Why don’t these men ever notice that their go-to bargaining chip is women’s bodies? And if they do notice, why doesn’t it bother them? (harpyness)
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The House will vote this morning on an amendment to the health reform bill that if passed will effectively ban private insurance plans from providing coverage for abortion care. Where does your rep stand? These Dems lean pro-choice but need shoring up. Click here to find your representative and tell them to vote no on Stupak.
Arcuri (D, NY-24)
Bean (D, IL-08)
Bishop, S. (D, GA-02)
Boswell (D, IA-03)
Butterfield (D, NC-01)
Cardoza (D, CA-18)
Chandler (D, KY-06)
Cooper (D, TN-05)
Costa (D, CA-20)
Doyle (D, PA-14)
Edwards, C. (D, TX-17)
Etheridge (D, NC-02)
Gordon (D, TN-06)
Kratovil (D, MD-01)
Langevin (D, RI-02)
McMahon (D, NY-13)
Michaud (D, ME-02)
Minnick (D, ID-01)
Neal (D, MA-02)
Nye (D, VA-02)
Obey (D, WI-07)
Owens (D, NY-23)
Ruppersberger (D, MD-02)
Ryan, T. (D, OH-17)
Salazar (D, CO-03)
Space (D, OH-18)
Bart Stupak Thinks He Knows What I Can Do With My Body
And Congress is voting to let him make that choice.
The amendment, which you can download and read in full here, would do three things. First, it would codify the Hyde Amendment provisions in the bill so that the ban on federal funds being used for abortions besides those resulting from rape or incest, or in cases where the mother’s life is endangered would remain intact regardless of Hyde being reauthorized. As it’s currently written, the bill’s restrictions on the use of federal funds for abortion coverage would end if the Hyde Amendment, which has been reauthorized by Congress on an annual basis since 1976, is not reauthorized. Secondly, it would not allow individuals purchasing insurance at least in part with federal affordability credits to buy a plan that covers abortions. The bill as currently written would allow individuals to use affordability credits to buy insurance that includes abortion coverage, but it requires any such plan to segregate the credits from individual premium payments and ensure that only the premium payments are used to fund the abortion services portion of the plan. Affordability credits are available under the bill to people who don’t get insurance from work and earn between 150% and 400% of the Federal Poverty Level. The Stupak amendment would bar all people in this income bracket from purchasing insurance that covers elective abortions unless they can afford to pay for a separate abortion coverage plan on their own. People earning below 150% of FPL would already be ineligible for abortion coverage because they will be on Medicaid, which does not cover abortions under Hyde. There are no concrete numbers for how many people would be denied an abortion-coverage option under the amendment, but it would likely be at least 20 million. Thirdly, the Stupak amendment would dictate that the government-run public option does not provide abortion coverage. The bill currently leaves the decision of abortion coverage in the public option up to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Allowing the public option to cover abortions would not violate the Hyde Amendment because the public option is not government funded; will be entirely financed by individual premiums, just like the private plans.
You better be contacting Congress and letting them know that you’re pissed. This is ridiculous. This is NOT what we voted for in giving the Democrats huge majorities and this is NOT what we wanted in health care reform.
perhaps this will soothe the pain you’ll feel on realizing that ‘doolittle’ is 20 years old.
thank you, abbyjean & here, my fellow tumblrers. have some love.
god i love that little smirk of his. it just makes me want to make out with him.Wowza.
yeah, Jon Stewart has been sexy for a long time.
"An insolent sex party disturbing social peace and stability, encouraging vice and debauchery."
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islamic lawmakers in egypt about beyonce’s upcoming concert there. (via abbyjean)
sounds awesome.
this is what it looks like to get OWNED on television. (@adamserwer)
can I just mention that that douchebag, along with most of the rest of this country, ought to know who Shoshana Johnson is the same way we all know who Jessica Lynch is? Three guesses why we don’t.
there is genuine evil going on in texas
Was Willingham wrongly executed? The work of the state’s Forensic Commission was on the verge of debating a powerful report by noted fire investigator Craig Beyler annihilating the arson findings that sent Willingham to his grave. And then Perry stepped in to effectively halt the investigation.
Perry is plainly afraid that his own investigators will discover that the state likely put a blameless man to death. But what is he afraid of? Political fallout? What is mere politics when the credibility of a system that might have killed an innocent man – and might yet kill other innocents – is at issue? Our skittish governor has taken to calling Willingham a “monster.” Even if he was, we put men to death for their deeds, not their dispositions. He needed killin’ is no rationale for execution.
A real leader – a brave and honorable one – would want to know the truth, so that if evidence requires it, he and others responsible for Willingham’s death could make restitution and repent for shedding the blood of a blameless man railroaded to his execution. If hard-hearted Perry is so certain of Willingham’s guilt, why object to an investigation?
More importantly, if Willingham was wrongly put to death, all decent capital punishment supporters should want strict measures taken to ensure that this catastrophe never happens again. If we are going to have the death penalty, we have the solemn duty to use it responsibly. Right? Surely we Texans aren’t the kind of people so enamored of retribution that the actual guilt or innocence of those executed in our names is of no real concern.
This is not only a problem for Rick Perry. We live in a democracy. It’s on all of us. If Texas really did kill an innocent man, that’s a terrible tragedy. But if Texas and its governor lack the courage to face the truth and deal squarely with it, the tragic act will be magnified by deep and lasting disgrace, and we will all stand condemned by our collective moral cowardice. It’s much harder to live with painful truths than with comforting lies. But a people who would be on the side of right have no choice. (dallas news)
Rose Red (Fables cover art)
James Jean is so amazing. I want to get a sleeve of his Fables cover art, but I won’t because I like other comics better and because I love Fables and then suddenly there’ll be a moment where I trip over the fact that Bill Willingham is a fucking neocon and it takes me out of the story and consumes me for a minute.
Gary Cooper in Legion of the Condemned (1928, dir. William A. Wellman) (via garycooperscrapbook)
“People ask me how come you’ve been around so long. Well, it’s through playing the part of Mr. Average Joe American.”
-Gary Cooper
is he wearing lipstick? because there is nothing “average” about his face. or it could just be the RIDICULOUS HOTNESS.
“or as the five-time winner of Gondor Weekly’s Sexiest Man Alive competition.”He’s one of them Rangers. Dangerous folk they are, wanderin’ the wilds. What his right name is I’ve never heard, but ‘round here, he’s known as Strider.
oh god Viggo. and Viggo wins on so many levels (politics, writing, art. being the former Mr. Exene Cervenka) that this movie is just like icing.
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