Category: Abortion
Politico's Erika Lovely reports on the Democratic Senate primary race in Massachusetts and interviews NOW President Terry O'Neill on why abortion has taken center stage in the debate: "While all of the top contenders for the nomination support abortion rights — not to mention the president’s plan for a health care overhaul — the debate surrounding the amendment has nevertheless emerged as a key issue that has candidates scrambling to respond."
Read More...Washington Post's Howard Kurtz quotes NOW President Terry O'Neill about how the House version of the health care reform package sold women out: "It was initially reported as just another Washington compromise, a backroom bargain that brought health-care reform back from the brink. It also turned out to be a ticking time bomb."
Read More...NOTE: Link only works for people with paid subscriptions to the Ed Schultz Show. Listen to NOW President Terry O'Neill interviewed by radio show host Ed Schultz analyzing the Stupak-Pitts Amendment.
Read More...NOW President Terry O'Neill spoke with AFP reporter Karin Zeitvogel about NOW's opposition to the Stupack-Pitts Amendment in the health care reform: "Rights advocates Monday accused the most pro-choice US government in decades of throwing women under the bus after lawmakers tagged on an amendment restricting abortion access and funding to the health care reform bill."
Read More...NOW President Terry O'Neill was interviewed by NPR's Liz Halloran about the Stupak-Pitts Amendment: "Democrats have been showing a fresh determination to make Republicans' near-unanimous opposition to a national health care overhaul — and its implications for women — the GOP's Achilles heel during next year's midterm elections."
Read More...NOW President Terry O'Neill interviewed by Politico's Johnathan Allen: "Abortion-rights advocates are calling in the cavalry to help fight off an anti-abortion provision House Democratic leaders swallowed in order to win passage of their health care reform bill. "
Read More...ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper interviews NOW President Terry O'Neill in his popular blog "Political Punch" about the Stupak-Pitts Amendment: "Terry O’Neill, the president of the National Organization of Women, was not happy to hear President Obama’s response when ABC News asked him about an amendment added to the House Democrats’ health care bill Saturday night that further restricts abortion services in both public and private insurance plans."
Read More...Watch NOW Action VP Erin Matson speaking with ABC News Political Director David Chalian and ABC News Senior Politial Reporter Rick Klein about the Stupak-Pitts Amendment on ABCnews.com's "Top Line".
Read More...Read NOW President Terry O'Neill opinion for the Washington Post on women and health care: "Women are providing more health-care services, unpaid, to their family members and receiving fewer health-care services themselves under the current system. A new paradigm for health care that doesn't address this disparity won't be any fairer to women than the failed system we have now."
Read More...A YouTube video from the California Nurses Association about the Weiner Amendment. The synopsis reads, "The Weiner Amendment is a substitute amendment that would replace language in healthcare reforms now being debated in congress with single payer language to provide healthcare for everyone. There is still hope for real change. Please call your congressperson and ask them to support the Weiner Amendment."
Read More...NOW President Terry O'Neill is interviewed by CNN International Reporter Richard Greene in response to the study's new finding: "Support for abortion rights has fallen sharply in the past year, with Americans now split roughly 50-50 between those who back legal access to abortion and those who oppose it, according to a new survey."
Read More...The New York Times published an editorial arguing that: "In a rational system of medical care, there would be virtually no restrictions on financing abortions."
Read More...NOW President Terry O'Neill is quoted in this Associated Press article by David Crary about the debate over health care reform and abortion coverage.
Read More...Sandra G. Boodman writes for the Washington Post, "When Devin Miller, leader of the abortion rights group Medical Students for Choice at Virginia Commonwealth University, heard about the slaying of George Tiller, a Kansas physician who performed late abortions, she 'took a step back' to ponder her future. The second-year student plans to become an obstetrician-gynecologist or family physician and expects she would sometimes terminate pregnancies. But the May 31 death of Tiller, who was shot in the head at church, allegedly by an antiabortion activist, has left the 23-year-old deeply shaken."
Read More...CNN's Wayne Drash and Curt Merrill cover protests outside Dr. LeRoy Carhart's clinic in Nebraska. Local NOW activists as well as national President Terry O'Neill participated in this event.
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