On Nov 10, 2009, at 8:49 AM, Louis Proyect wrote: > How the Stupak Amendment Radically Undermines Abortion Rights > By Rachel Morris, Mother Jones Online > Posted on November 10, 2009, Printed on November 10, 2009 > http://www.alternet.org/story/143849/ > > Will health care reform come at the expense of abortion rights? > The Democrats’ historic health care bill squeaked through the > House on Saturday only after pro-life forces scored a major > victory. Despite months of wrangling over the public option and > the price tag, in the end the legislation’s fate turned on an > eleventh-hour push by conservative Democrats to broaden the bill's > existing limits on government funding of abortion, in the form of > an amendment authored by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.)...
Now this is what is really notable: simply by *abstaining* on Stupak the Repugnicons would have killed the bill. Why didn't they? Because, I suggest, the word came down from the health-insurance industry lobbyists that the huge subsidies and captive consumers make this a good bill--for them. Only Kucinich among the Dumbocrats seems to have got the message--and voted NO! Shane Mage > This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it > always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, > kindling in measures and going out in measures." > > Herakleitos of Ephesos ________________________________________________ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
