House Passes Abortion Bill

[cal04]

Source: National Journal

The House passed a controversial abortion bill Thursday on a near party-line vote, reigniting the chamber’s political battle over women’s health.

The bill, which passed 251-172, would prevent coverage of abortion services by insurance plans on state exchanges that receive federal subsidies. It would also strengthen conscience protections for hospitals and medical providers. At least 15 Democrats voted in support of the bill.

It’s no surprise the bill from Rep. Joe Pitts, R-Pa., easily passed the House, but it isn’t likely to get much further in the Democratic-controlled Senate. Republicans in the upper chamber have not forced a floor vote on any abortion legislation passed by the House this year. President Obama also threatened on Wednesday to veto the legislation, saying that it “intrudes on women’s reproductive freedom and access to health care.”

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“Now let me tell you something. My story is pretty well known now. But I was pregnant, I was miscarrying, I was bleeding. If I had to go from one hospital to the next trying to find one emergency room that would take me in, who knows if I would even be here today,” said Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., on the floor of the House. “The time has come for us to stop taking up this issue over and over again this year and do something the American people really care about. They want jobs,” Speier said.

Read more: http://www.nationaljournal.com/healthcare/house-passes-abortion-bill-20111013

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[teddy51]

1. "At least 15 Democrats voted in support of the bill." These are the dirt bags

that we need to get voted out in 2012.

[alp227]

24. 2 Republican nays?

Judy Biggert (IL-13) and Richard Hanna (NY-24)

[truebrit71]

40. Wow...maybe Judy realizes she is in for a tougher race next year..

..than has previously been the case..

[ChairmanAgnostic]

38. a list would be nice.

[Dont call me Shirley]

2. Senators, do not pass this aberration.

[jmowreader]

44. It won't get past the Senate

There aren't 60 anti-abortion senators, and the president is a Democrat.

[Lionessa]

3. Sometimes I forget how lucky I was, even though I never availed myself of the opportunity,

to have had my reproductive years from 1975-1991. Geez,Leweez! Religion has just got to get out of Politics, whether it's abortion, or sin taxes, or sin laws (mj, prostitution, etc). If we want a better government that costs less, we need less personal regulation and more corporate regulation.

[Frank Coffin]

4. DOA everywhere else.

Moving on.... the abortion bill will be permanently shelved by Reid.

[Frank Coffin]

5. The Dems should take advantage of this - and make a ad out of htis

This is what your Representative is wasting time on, instead of creating jobs, they focused on THIS? Can you afford THIS?

[lunasun]

13. wasting time and taxpayer's money (we are paying them)&

what happened to wanting less government in our lives teabagger house reps????? Oh that is just for your pet points then it is OK ...not women's rights ....I forgot..........

[No Elephants]

30. I'm fine with that, as long as they identify the Democrats who voted aye at the same time as they

make hay out of it.

'Cause I am beyond tired of Washington D.C.'s kabuki.

[pinto]

6. Thanks for including the 'clerk.house.gov' link -

:thumbsup:

[Grassy Knoll]

7. I vote to remove penis's form house repigs.....

because they are a bunch of worthless pricks.

[KamaAina]

36. That would put Speaker Boner in an awkward predicament

:evilgrin:

[MatthewStLouis]

8. Time to reignite the wedge issues: the lifeblood of the Greed Over People party.

They know this crap won't go anywhere.

[onehandle]

9. That'll create jobs. nt

[Divine Discontent]

11. great response! as always, this matter is 100% each woman's choice!

but hey, let's focus on this instead of renewing the economic prosperity we used to have!


Get it here now, or one of a million other designs! http://www.zazzle.com/republicans_2012_keeping_millions_out_of_work_bumper_sticker-128659602907896843?rf=238107662556833486eping_millions_out_of_work_bumper_sticker-128659602907896843?rf=238107662556833486

[sellitman]

10. You idiotic Liberals wake up and see this for what it really is.

It's a GOP jobs bill!

The morgue, and cemeteries everywhere will be hiring new grave diggers and the Monument makers will rejoice!

[The Doctor.]

12. The "Puppet Show" has never been more obvious.

Am I the only one to notice that bills like these only come up when one or the other House, or the President, will kill it?

Damnit man! If this doesn't look like "Pro" Wrestling to everyone, than neither does 'Pro Wrestling'!


Wake the fuck up!

[sarcasmo]

14. They have no problem pushing these wedge issues. Where is the freaking jobs bill?

DOUCHE BAGS!

[cal04]

15. 15 Dems who voted for this, 2 Republican No

Fifteen Democrats voted for what women's groups are calling the "Let Women Die" Act. These include anti-choice Congressmen Jason Altmire (PA), Sanford Bishop (GA), Dan Boren (OK), Jerry Costello (IL), Mark Critz (PA), Henry Cuellar (TX), Joe Donnelly (IN), Tim Holden (PA), Dan Lipinski (IL), Jim Matheson (UT), Mike McIntyre (NC), Nick Rahall (WVA), Mike Ross (AR), Collin Petersen (MN), and Heath Shuler (D-NC).

http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2011/10/13/house-passes-hr-358-the-let-women-die-act-of-2011

No IL-13 Biggert, Judy
No NY-24 Hanna, Richard
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2011-789

[SoapBox]

17. Thank you for this list of Traitors.

AND...AND...it was all MEN.

What the hell?

I just don't understand why all the MEN have to be sticking their snouts into
women's rights, regarding their reproductive organs!

[TorchTheWitch]

22. because the lack of women's rights has ALWAYS been because of men

Even here in the 21st century it's STILL a man's world.

[Lars39]

18. May all their balls fall off.

[wordpix]

20. gee, I'm so surprised---they're all men

:sarcasm: really, I'm not surprised at all.

[defendandprotect]

27. And only 1 of the 15 might ever need an abortion -- !!

[iamthebandfanman]

29. looks like they are all unopposed

in primaries ?

maybe ive over looked something though?


sounds like they need to be challenged.

[Odin2005]

33. UGH, I'm sick of Collin Fucking Peterson the DINO as my congressman.

[BlueIris]

34. Thanks for that list of complete and total assholes.

Ugly, ugly mistake.

[Raster]

42. correct me if I am wrong, but it appears the 15 "Dems" were all men...

...and I bet fine, upstanding religious pilars of society.:sarcasm:

[JBoy]

16. Can't create jobs, so kick women some more.

Real men don't do shit like that.

[wordpix]

19. Thank you Rep Speier: "They want jobs." But rethug family values has won the day in the House

:puke:

[wordpix]

21. big thank you to the government-in-my-uterus crowd

:sarcasm:

[Hubert Flottz]

23. Now they can all put on their Dave Vitter diapers and run on down

to the bondage bar and party hearty!

Edit...Say AAAAAAAmen Somebody! Now who the fuck can we bomb and torture next week?(family Values)

:bounce:
"What he feeds me I will swallow, where he leads me I will follow"

[cstanleytech]

25. What assholes, abortions are (for the most part) perfectly legal and there is imo no

really good reason why to do this other than to prove they are even larger assholes.

[No Elephants]

31. Abortion s a constitutional right. That trumps "legal" or "illegal."

[cstanleytech]

41. Really now, no need to be petty.

[defendandprotect]

26. What Rep. Jackie Speier isn't acknowledging is that they could care less about women's lives ....

Patriarchy's continues its war on women and the object is control -- over women

and reproduction --

“Now let me tell you something. My story is pretty well known now. But I was pregnant, I was miscarrying, I was bleeding. If I had to go from one hospital to the next trying to find one emergency room that would take me in, who knows if I would even be here today,” said Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., on the floor of the House. “The time has come for us to stop taking up this issue over and over again this year and do something the American people really care about. They want jobs,” Speier said.

Being in a situation like that -- or having an illegal abortion and being near death -- brings

the message in very clearly -- female lives are held very cheaply by patriarchy!



Indeed, most life is held very cheaply by patriarchy -- but especially women and children.


GOPs/Pro-Life "fanatical fetal fantasy" --- back to time to save them from OWS????

A little distraction, perhaps?

[Democat]

28. Republicans wanting more government control of your personal life?

Surprise.

[No Elephants]

32. Wire hangers will probably still be available for a long time.

“This bill is a collection of dangerous ideas that will undermine women’s health,” Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, said in a statement. “Most devastating, the bill eliminates protections for patients seeking care in emergency circumstances, and would allow a hospital to deny lifesaving abortion care to a woman, even if a doctor deems it necessary.”



When did God deputize Republicans to decide whose death is more desirable? Isn't that playing God?


Quick, someone remind me what the very first commandment is.

[BlueIris]

35. SICKOS.

Anti-choicers are divorced from reality.

[KamaAina]

37. Gah! I was just in Costello (DINO-IL)'s office last month

working the halls after the Medicaid rally.

Had I only known what a POS he was...

edit: also surprised to see Rahall up there. The rest are mostly the usual suspects. :eyes:

[MountainLaurel]

39. Rahall isn't much of a surprise, alas

He's becoming more of a DINO day by day.

[jmowreader]

43. How many jobs did this bill create?

Actually, a LOT of them.

Read http://www.sustainer.org/dhm_archive/index.php?display_article=vn318cohort_of67ed to find out what happens when the government bans abortion.