Why? - New NARAL TV ad aimed at the Stupak Amendment

[Bozita]

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From Friday's Detroit Free Press:

http://www.freep.com/article/20091204/NEWS15/91204032/1322/Ad-targets-Stupak-plan-to-restrict-abortion

December 4, 2009

Ad targets Stupak amendment on abortion restriction

By TODD SPANGLER
FREE PRESS WASHINGTON STAFF

WASHINGTON – The National Abortion Rights Action League is running a TV ad targeting U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan for his amendment restricting abortion coverage under the health care reform plan being debated in Congress.

In the ad, a narrator asks the rhetorical question, “Why would politicians like Bart Stupak introduce abortion into America’s health care debate? Why? Are they trying to make it more difficult than ever before for women to buy insurance coverage for abortion in the new health care system, even if they use their own money?” The narrator then says the amendment would “impose one of the worst restrictions on a woman’s right to choose in a generation.”

Stupak’s amendment says no insurance plan receiving federal subsidies under the health care reform bill can provide abortion coverage, unless they do so on an entirely separate policy paid for in full by the policyholder. Stupak and his allies argue that maintains an existing restriction on using federal funds to pay for any kind of abortion coverage.

But opponents like NARAL say few, if any, insurers will offer those separate policies, meaning millions of women who would get coverage through a new national insurance exchange and receive subsidies to pay their premiums (available to those with income up to four times the federal poverty limit) would effectively be denied abortion coverage.

The Stupak amendment got attached to the bill in the House; should it pass in the Senate, it would likely remain in the final product. That’s why NARAL and other abortion rights groups are so actively lobbying against it.

The ad will run for a week beginning Friday or Saturday on cable channels Bravo, USA, TNT and MSNBC in Alpena, Bay City, Marquette and Traverse City – all part of Stupak’s sweeping district. In addition, it also will run in the Duluth, Minn., and Green Bay, Wis., markets, since their coverage includes portions of Stupak’s Upper Peninsula-based district. Stupak, a Democrat, resides in Menominee.

It also will run in other key midsize media markets, including Richmond, Va., Raleigh, N.C., and the Portland and Bangor markets in Maine.

The Maine markets make sense because Republican Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins could be key votes in blocking the Stupak amendment, particularly since there are likely to be some Democratic defections. (Ben Nelson of Nebraska is likely to introduce the Stupak-like language in the Senate, for example.) NARAL said the Virginia and North Carolina markets were selected because abortion opponents have been active in those states and it wants to hold onto votes in both.

[me b zola]

1. Thank you, NARAL

:kick:

[ooglymoogly]

2. Rahm....troglodites for US house and senate.

May I have a D please.

[demwing]

3. Why - would NARAL lie about the facts?

Oh I get it, it's not a lie when you pose it in the form of a question. Then it's just a misleading pile of hype.

[Ratman]

4. WHY? I know why...

Why???

Because of the religious dogma these men were raised with. They have been brain washed from birth to "Believe" they are superior to many and have a right to influence our lives with their Bronze Age laws.

Confront them on their religious belief. Consider them Taliban Lite. They don't hood their women, yet, but stoning is always a possibility.

Wake up to the reasons and methods that others use to control your life. Reject religion or suffer the influence of these men and their poisoned thinking and lack of reason.