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...Stupak Amendment were to pass Congress, the existing House Health Care Bill would only cover abortions in the instances of rape, incest, or potential harm to the life of the mother...

Author: By Gautam S. Kumar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Campaign Against Stupak Amendment | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

...abortion advocates are up in arms over the Stupak amendment to the House’s health-care bill. This amendment would prevent federal dollars from subsidizing any health-insurance plan that covers abortion outside of rape, incest, or medical risk to the mother. The main argument put forward against the amendment is that it is, as this page put it, “an outrageous curtailing of lower income women’s right to choose.”  By this argument, in depriving these women of their “right to choose...

Author: By NICOLAS R. P. LEWINE | Title: Stumping for Stupak | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

...health-insurance marketplace that is envisioned by the bill. Pro-choice advocates insist that the amendment goes too far, beyond the decades-old Hyde Amendment, the federal law that prohibits funding of abortions through Medicaid and other federal health plans except in the case of rape, incest or to save the woman's life. By restricting abortion coverage through the so-called exchange, critics say, the Stupak amendment will end up limiting the availability of abortions, especially for the low-income women who would qualify for federal subsidies to help purchase policies. Stupak charged that the Dems' compromise proposal, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can a Pro-Life Dem Bridge the Health-Care Divide? | 11/24/2009 | See Source »

...This isn't Bastard out of Carolina, with a cute little girl suffering while we rise up in indignation. The movie allows us moments of judging Precious - as Mrs. Lichenstein does - and then begins to roll out a series of nightmares that last the whole day long: rape, incest and a mother so lacking in human decency that she not only aided in a father's lust for a child but also considered that child as a witting rival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Precious Review: Too Powerful for Tears | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

...mirrors public opinion as well. A 2008 Zogby poll found that 69% of Americans oppose "taxpayer funding of abortion," which is currently governed by the decades-old Hyde Amendment, the law that prohibits funding of abortions through Medicaid and federal employee health plans except in the case of rape, incest, or to save the woman's life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Dems Resolve Their Abortion Split? | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

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