Health Care Bill a Win For Women?

Salt Lake City Examiner reporter Kathryn Anderson-Holmes reports on the significance of the health care reform and women: “It was a definitive win for the Democratic Party. It was also a win for President Obama and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, but…

Pelosi’s Triumph: ‘It’s Personal For Women’

NPR.com’s Liz Halloran quotes NOW President Terry O’Neill about whether gender played a part in Nancy Pelosi’s leadership in helping to pass the health care reform: “So was the tenacity with which Pelosi, a 69-year-old mother of five, pursued the 216 Dem…

Obama Signs Order On Abortion And Healthcare

Reuter reports on the pro-choice community’s disappointment over President Obama’s behind-the-curtain signing of the executive order: “Abortion rights advocates said they were furious about the signing, which they said gave extra weight to an anti-aborti…

Double Trouble Brewing for Anti-Abortion Democrats?

Huma Kahn of ABCNews.com quotes NOW’s displeasure of the executive order banning federal funds to pay for abortions: “The health carelegislation signed by President Obama Tuesday was widely denounced by both abortion rights and anti-abortion groups. Both…