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Will the Stupak Amendment Force Women Who've Miscarried to Lose Insurance Coverage? I Think So (www.rhrealitycheck.org) TMC

This weekend, a group of male pro-life Democrats gambled with women's health, and women lost. By broadly writing in that insurers can chose whether or not to cover "abortion services," pro-life... More

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Why The Stupak Amendment Is A Monumental Setback (www.rhrealitycheck.org) TMC

If you thought that just because abortion is a constitutional right and part of basic reproductive health care it would be available in the reformed health insurance market known as the Exchange,... More

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The Stupak Amendment: An Assault On Women (www.rhrealitycheck.org) TMC

The Abortion Care Network, a national organization of independent abortion providers and allies, decries passage of the Stupak-Pitts amendment to the Affordable Health Care for America Act. Once again... More

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Many Dems Who Voted For Stupak Still Voted Against the Bill (www.rhrealitycheck.org) TMC

Culture Kitchen reports that many of the 39 Democrats that voted for the Stupak Amendment still voted against the final bill. Had all 39 Democrats who were voting against the bill anyway voted... More

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Historic Health Reform Bill Passes But At a Price: Women's Groups Have Mixed Reaction (www.rhrealitycheck.org) TMC

Last night, the House of Representatives passed "historic" legislation on health care reform, with a vote of 220 to 215.

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The Answer to the Stupak? Overturn Hyde Now (www.rhrealitycheck.org) TMC

Sorting through feelings as well as strategies in the face of the enormous defeat that the passage of a health care reform bill that so severely and punishingly restricts access to abortion will take... More

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To Congress on Health Reform: Improve It and Move It! (www.rhrealitycheck.org) TMC

First Lady Michelle Obama’s recent national call to action underscored the importance of health care reform as a women’s equality issue. Every day, women live in fear that they can be denied... More

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The Truth About the Capps Amendment (www.rhrealitycheck.org) TMC

Enacting comprehensive health insurance reform is no easy task - if it was, we'd have done it decades ago. Making it more difficult is the blatant misinformation being spread by some opponents of... More

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Women Need Health Care Reform, Stat! (www.rhrealitycheck.org) TMC

Despite the shouting and name-calling at the town hall meetings, I remain hopeful about health care reform. I have no other choice. As an obstetrician-gynecologist, I spent years learning how to keep... More

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Abortion and Health Care (www.rhrealitycheck.org) TMC

The health care debate has become a debate about abortion. The Right has been looking for the best methods to exploit the desperation of its constituents, and abortion is the easiest issue to utilize;... More

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