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‘Intensity Gap’ Between Younger Abortion-Rights Opponents, Supporters
By CWLC, CWLC News, April 19th, 2010Newsweek Examines NARAL Survey Showing ‘Intensity Gap’ Between Younger Abortion-Rights Opponents, Supporters
April 19, 2010 — Newsweek staff writer Sarah Kliff writes that antiabortion-rights Democrats’ influence on the health reform debate raised a critical question for abortion-rights advocates: “[I]f Democrats won’t stand for strong abortion rights, who will?”
Kliff reports that the leaders of most of the major abortion-rights groups — including NARAL Pro-Choice America, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the National Organization for Women — belong to a generation that has firsthand experience with the fight for legalization of abortion. According to NARAL President Nancy Keenan, many younger abortion-rights supporters — those born after Roe v. Wade — lack the passion of what she calls the “postmenopausal militia” — the women in their 50s who fought for and defended…
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Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) to announce retirement from Congress.
By CWLC, CWLC News, Reproductive Justice, April 9th, 2010April 9, 2010
Stupak to announce retirement
Posted: April 9th, 2010 08:26 AM ET
From CNN Senior Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash
Bart Stupak will announce his retirement Friday.
Marquette, Michigan (CNN) – Nine-term Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Michigan, will reveal Friday he is retiring from Congress, several Democratic sources close to Stupak tell CNN.
The anti-abortion Democrat has been facing opposition from both the right and the left for his 11th hour deal with the White House that he says bans federal funding for abortion. The deal ultimately led to his decisive vote in favor of the health care bill.
Stupak first informed Democratic leaders last week that he was considering retiring. He has received calls from President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others urging him to run again.
Democratic sources in…
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Healthcare Reform Pro-Choice Roundup
By CWLC, CWLC News, Reproductive Justice, March 29th, 2010
What does healthcare reform mean for women’s reproductive freedom? In a nut shell, there is no impact on the question of abortion as Obama’s executive order he promised Congressman Bart Stupak (left) re-enforces the Hyde Amendment. Let’s see what the “fixes” yield as health reform moves forward.
Below is a round-up of the thoughts on healthcare reform and women’s reproductive freedom. We’d like to thank Tracy Clark-Flory of Salon.com for collecting these.
You can call prochoice leaders hypocritical or cowardly or feeble or excessively deferential to the president’s agenda. But one thing you can’t call them is selfishly obsessed with their own political purity. That would be the antichoicers — the Catholic bishops, Bart Stupak, Ben Nelson. They were the big evil babies who…
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STATEMENT ON THE CONVICTION OFDR. GEORGE TILLER’S MURDERER
By Katie Buckland, CWLC News, Reproductive Justice, January 29th, 2010“It is a great day for the American system of justice. The jury sent a clear message that we are a pro-choice nation. And by deliberating only 37 minutes, it is clear that they saw the defendant as the cold blooded murderer that he is.”
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