NOW President Terry O’Neill calls on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to refuse to make any deals to appease Ben Nelson or the Catholic Bishops or anyone else seeking to turn the health care bill into an anti-abortion vehicle.
Dana Weinstein writes in the Baltimore Sun: “This past July, I was happily pregnant and eagerly expecting the arrival of our second child. . . . Never in my worst nightmare did I imagine I would need to have an abortion – and certainly not late term.”
“Though it has lurked on the sidelines in the national health care debate, Indian Health Services is one instructive example of a government-run health system that, for all its faults, serves as a fraying lifeline for impoverished communities devastated by just about everything from diabetes to teen suicide,” writes Michelle Chen for the Air America website.
The National Organization for Women congratulates Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley for her overwhelming victory in the Democratic primary in the special election to fill the late Ted Kennedy’s U.S. Senate seat. If Coakley prevails as expected in the Jan. 19 general election, she will be the first woman senator from the state of Massachusetts, and she will double to two the number of women in the state’s current 12-member congressional delegation. The NOW Political Action Committee proudly endorsed Coakley in her run.
NOW applauds the Senate for voting to table and effectively defeat the Nelson-Hatch Amendment to the health care reform bill. This victory is just one small step, however, toward enacting health care reform that recognizes health care as a human right, abortion as health care and women as deserving of coverage that meets all of their medical needs.
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