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...with someone convulsing on a stretcher), and a slow day in my elementary school nurse’s office, but what I got was quite different. As a pre-med, I had always assumed that public health was removed from the patient, that it was about long term and broad changes, and that actual people suffering from illness and disease got lost in the melee of pamphlets, walks for causes, and mass emails. I was wrong...
...gets turned down, it's disorienting, like walking outside after a rock concert and trying to hear again. So the significance may not immediately register when two House Democrats introduce legislation on July 23 aimed at reducing abortion rates. But regardless of whether their bill succeeds or fails, the broad array of supporters behind it represents a dramatic break from nearly four decades of post-Roe politics. (Read "Understanding America's Shift on Abortion...
...turn down the heat." Laser began her career in the pro-choice community and agreed four years ago to help Ryan craft a common-ground bill. She shouldered the task of patiently hearing out each group's concerns and turning them into a final product that could garner broad support without being uselessly watered down or split into two. When abortion-rights advocates, for example, objected to a provision to have abortion providers obtain what is called "informed consent" from patients (a requirement already mandated in all 50 states), Laser removed it. And she did the same when some...
Obama has directed his staff to develop their own plan for tackling abortion reduction, and he is reportedly aiming to make an announcement about those efforts in August. The White House has conducted meetings with a broad array of pro-life and pro-choice advocates. But getting opponents to sit down and talk about abortion is only the first step. So instead of reinventing the wheel, Obama should use the newly introduced House bill as the model, DeLauro says, adding, "We've already done all the work here...
...only part of the challenge. It would help, lawmakers are saying more frequently in private, if the President would be clearer about how he wants to fix the problem. His strategy of keeping his distance from the legislative machinery while only saying that any final product must meet certain broad principles means that Representatives and Senators have no clue as to what kind of bill he would accept in the end - and what they should be trying to sell to their constituents. Who will be taxed to help pay for an initiative expected to cost $1 trillion or more over...