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Abortion amendment 'throws women under bus'
The Telegraph ^ | November 10, 2009 | Karin Zeitvogel

Posted on 11/10/2009 7:46:18 AM PST by myknowledge

Women's rights advocates are angry after an amendment restricting abortion access and funding was added to the health care reform bill, which the House of Representatives passed on Saturday.

"We had the most pro-choice candidate in decades, but we don't have the most pro-choice president," said Terry O'Neill, president of the half-million-strong National Organisation of Women.

"The Stupak-Pitts amendment is a giant leap in the direction of making abortion completely inaccessible to all of us," O'Neill said.

Sixty-four Democrats joined 176 Republicans to vote for the amendment, named after co-authors Representative Bart Stupak, a Democrat, and Republican lawmaker Joseph Pitts.

"They said they wouldn't have been able to get health care reform passed without this amendment," said O'Neill.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; amendment; baitandswitch; itllberemoved; prochoice; prolife

Good. It would protect those unborn babies from being aborted by their 'mothers'.

1 posted on 11/10/2009 7:46:20 AM PST by myknowledge
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To: myknowledge
Abortion amendment 'throws women under bus'

What are these savages complaining about? It is still perfectly legal for them to murder unborn boys as well as girls under this law.

2 posted on 11/10/2009 7:49:21 AM PST by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: myknowledge

The liberals seem to be obsessed with death. They deny it, but they really seem to be a cult of death.


3 posted on 11/10/2009 7:50:19 AM PST by ushr435
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To: myknowledge
They wanted to reach into my pocket and force me to pay for abortion. Failing in this (so far), they have decared that this is "restricting access to abortion".

They live on lies.

4 posted on 11/10/2009 7:50:40 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
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To: myknowledge

I’m fed up with this argument.

Nobody is telling you what you can do with your body. What we are telling you is that you CANNOT reach into someone else’s wallet to CONFISCATE the funds to do what you want to do with your body.

If it’s your body....YOU take care of it.


5 posted on 11/10/2009 7:50:56 AM PST by Daisyjane69 (Michael Reagan: "Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time)
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To: myknowledge
"Abortion amendment 'throws women under bus'"

It does not! You can pay for your own abortion! Stay out of MY wallet!

6 posted on 11/10/2009 7:51:27 AM PST by avacado
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To: ushr435

That is precisely why they like Islam so much — both are cults of death.


7 posted on 11/10/2009 7:51:56 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
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To: myknowledge
To these people, anything short of unrestricted genocidal and eugenic murder of infants and fetuses would be considered "making abortion completely inaccessible to all of us".

Abortion is legal and available all over the country, per Roe v. Wade. What these people want is not accessibility, which they already have through Planned Parenthood, but the ability to impose their murderous beliefs on those whose legitimate moral or religious beliefs compel them to oppose the abortion agenda. This is a perfect example of leftist totalitarianism in action.

8 posted on 11/10/2009 7:52:27 AM PST by Emile (When it comes to opposing socialism, compromise means defeat.)
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To: avacado

Pay for their own,

or set up a voluntary charity to pay for them.

They just don’t want people pointing out the obvious -

abortion is morally wrong.


9 posted on 11/10/2009 7:53:08 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: myknowledge

Why do lesbians hate babies so much?


10 posted on 11/10/2009 7:54:14 AM PST by Dewey Revoltnow
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To: Dewey Revoltnow

Oddly, the gay men I know are very pro-life.


11 posted on 11/10/2009 7:57:08 AM PST by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: Dewey Revoltnow; NativeNewYorker
Lesbians hate babies because they are jealous of the heterosexual women who will give birth to those babies.

Gay men like babies because some of the babies will be boys, and will eventually reach puberty, and the gay men look forward to recruiting them.

12 posted on 11/10/2009 8:04:17 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
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To: myknowledge

I guess throwing embryos under the bus is OK? Especially if we are paying for it??


13 posted on 11/10/2009 8:05:44 AM PST by eartotheground
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To: Emile

Our problem is that The Senate/Conference is likely to change the language of Stupak-Pitt and leave the matter to the courts to decide. With that, they will have breached the wall built by the Hyde Amendment and allowed liberal judges to have another chance to permit federal funding of abortions.


14 posted on 11/10/2009 8:08:32 AM PST by RobbyS (Pray with the suffering souls.)
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To: NativeNewYorker
"Oddly, the gay men I know are very pro-life."

That's because many Feminazis take on the old stereotype of macho-man. Bullies, terrorizing their lipstick partners and society as a whole. They are vindictive creeps who really don't care about life, only themselves. Any woman who is successful and trying to get these commie traitors off their back is their enemy.

Ex.Palin.

15 posted on 11/10/2009 8:08:44 AM PST by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......?)
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To: MrB; Emile
Americans Have Killed 10-fold Hitler's Holocaust
Abortion is Murder!
Abortion and the Ancient Practice of Child Sacrifice
Abortuaries!
EU to Doctors: Thou Shalt Abort!
16 posted on 11/10/2009 8:10:23 AM PST by myknowledge (F-22 Raptor: World's Largest Distributor of Sukhoi parts!)
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To: myknowledge

“We had the most pro-choice candidate in decades, but we don’t have the most pro-choice president,” said Terry O’Neill, president of the half-million-strong National Organisation of Women.”

Unless of course that choice is regarding the ability to chose the health insurance provider, or even more basically whether to have or NOT have health insurance.

Hey NOW, keep your laws off my BODY!


17 posted on 11/10/2009 8:11:26 AM PST by CSM (Business is too big too fail... Government is too big to succeed... I am too small to matter...)
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To: Daisyjane69

“Nobody is telling you what you can do with your body.”

Regardless of the ammendment, this legislation is most certainly telling you what you can do with your body. As soon as you forfiet the care of your body to the Government, you give them control of your physical being.

Hey Dems, Keep your laws off my BODY!


18 posted on 11/10/2009 8:14:10 AM PST by CSM (Business is too big too fail... Government is too big to succeed... I am too small to matter...)
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To: myknowledge
If the brain dead republicans had voted against the amendment, there would not bee a bill at all. Fools!!!
19 posted on 11/10/2009 8:16:14 AM PST by org.whodat (Vote: Chuck De Vore in 2012.)
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To: myknowledge

Yeah, nevermind the fact that this who Healthcare bill throws all of us under the bus and then drives back and forth over our bodies a couple of times, we’re just mad abortions won’t be paid for. :)


20 posted on 11/10/2009 8:21:42 AM PST by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: Tzimisce

NOW has only 500,000 members?!


21 posted on 11/10/2009 8:27:34 AM PST by Sigurdrifta
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To: pnh102

I wonder if these woman who advocate the right to abortion are even fertile.

Let them stew as we continue to educate young women on Pro Life issues.


22 posted on 11/10/2009 8:44:49 AM PST by Global2010 (Strange We Can Believe In)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Does Islam promote abortions?


23 posted on 11/10/2009 8:47:41 AM PST by Global2010 (Strange We Can Believe In)
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To: myknowledge
The Democratic Party threw the feminists under the bus!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

24 posted on 11/10/2009 8:50:49 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Really?

I am very hetrosexual but I chose to not have kids or marry.

I do have one adult son and love him dearly, he was unplanned.

But I chose a life of cold showers after that.

I dont hate babies, not gay and 100% pro Life.


25 posted on 11/10/2009 8:50:49 AM PST by Global2010 (Strange We Can Believe In)
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To: myknowledge

Ten to one O’Neill breaks down into tears when she sees video of some poor seal getting clubbed or a polar bear stranded on an tiny iceberg, yet the killing of unborn babies is something to be proud of.

These people are mentally ill.


26 posted on 11/10/2009 8:51:37 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Hope....Change...Food Stamps!)
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To: pnh102
The bill does NOT ban abortion. It only reaffirms current federal law that prohibits federal funding for abortion. No radical change here.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

27 posted on 11/10/2009 8:52:58 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: myknowledge

Abortionist and Planned Parenthood are NOT pro-woman.

IF they truly were, they would NOT cover up incidents of rape, child molestation, and statutory rape for easy $$$ and no police investigations.

If they TRULY were trying to keep women from getting pregnant AND wanted to keep abortion “rare”, they would be working to see that women knew and understood how to use birth control. Whoopi Goldberg claims to be a brain when she anchors The Shrew on ABCDisney but she got “accidently” pregnant at least 6 times. Think she’d wise up eventually.


28 posted on 11/10/2009 9:04:10 AM PST by a fool in paradise (I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
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To: goldstategop
It only reaffirms current federal law that prohibits federal funding for abortion.

Which itself is a joke. Planned Parenthood gets tons of money from taxpayers and yet they continue to kill children with it.

29 posted on 11/10/2009 9:22:33 AM PST by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: pnh102

They act like they didn’t the Amendement was in the Bill when they voted to pass it!


30 posted on 11/10/2009 9:26:39 AM PST by fortheDeclaration ("Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people".-John Adams)
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To: org.whodat
If the brain dead republicans had voted against the amendment, there would not bee a bill at all. Fools!!!

Yes, it could have gone that way, but they were probably thinking the Amendment was a 'poison pill' and that the pro-Abortionists would unite against it.

They didn't then, but they are now.

If the Amendment is stripped from the final bill, it will never pass.

If it isn't, it won't pass.

31 posted on 11/10/2009 9:30:15 AM PST by fortheDeclaration ("Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people".-John Adams)
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To: Global2010
Does Islam promote abortions?

It has no qualms about murdering pregnant women, as the murderer did at Ft. Hood.

32 posted on 11/10/2009 9:31:46 AM PST by fortheDeclaration ("Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people".-John Adams)
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To: fortheDeclaration
They will not strip it, they will loop hole it into meaningless dribble.
33 posted on 11/10/2009 9:49:38 AM PST by org.whodat (Vote: Chuck De Vore in 2012.)
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To: avacado

Bingo. Women are certainly not being thrown under the bus. Not with this amendment anyway. This abortion of a bill throws us all under the bus.


34 posted on 11/10/2009 9:57:31 AM PST by greatplains
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To: ClearCase_guy
They have this strange ideology that says Fearless Feminists are intelligent, capable, strong, "I-am-Woman-hear-me-roar," and can handle anything: the business world, competitive sports, the military: they can handle anything, from Quantum Physics to the Presidency, but they can't handle a pregnancy...

A pregnancy would just ruin their lives....And a live baby...?

("Eeeeek!" Wonder Woman runs off screaming in terror...)

35 posted on 11/10/2009 10:48:57 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("It is our choices, far more than our abilities, that show us what we truly are. " -- J.K.Rowling)
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To: Sigurdrifta
"NOW has only 500,000 members?!"

They claim 500,000. I suspect the real numbers are considerably less than 50,000 actual paid members.
36 posted on 11/10/2009 10:59:26 AM PST by StraitShooter (www.CanadaCarry.org www.CdnShootingSports.org)
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To: Emile

They want to share the sin.


37 posted on 11/10/2009 2:43:01 PM PST by Z in Washington
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To: Dewey Revoltnow

Feminists hate men.

Fathers are men.

Babies are the children of fathers.

Thus, feminists hate babies.

Their psychotic trail is very clear.


38 posted on 11/10/2009 2:45:58 PM PST by Z in Washington
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To: Mrs. Don-o

The thing that bothers me about all the hot button issues is that the real problems with this bill will get lost in emotional debate and no-one will really talk about the massive power and purse strings grab being attempted by the Democrats, surely a losing proposition come next November. I mean who is going to voluntarily vote for people who grab all your money and try to take over your medical records and care?! They want to frame the debate on the abortion issue? I say turn the number crunchers and investigative reporters loose on them!!


39 posted on 11/10/2009 2:58:51 PM PST by BlackAdderess
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To: BlackAdderess
"I say turn the number crunchers and investigative reporters loose on them!!"

Amen!

40 posted on 11/10/2009 3:45:21 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("It’s the Post Office that’s always having problems.” -- Barack Obama, Aug. 11, 2009)
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To: myknowledge
Check out this vid by Randall Terry in a last-minute counter-protest to the Stupak Amendment N.O.W. protest.
41 posted on 11/10/2009 3:46:26 PM PST by mlizzy ("Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person" --Mother Teresa of Calcutta.)
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To: myknowledge

Shouldn’t this really be titled:

Abortion inclusion throws babies under bus.


42 posted on 11/10/2009 3:53:41 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: org.whodat
They will not strip it, they will loop hole it into meaningless dribble.

If they do, it won't get passed the anti-abortion people.

Pelosi is dealing with only a 2 vote win.

If the amendment stays in, then even if 5 of the pro-abortion people refuse to vote for the Bill, she will lose.

That amendment is a poison pill.

43 posted on 11/11/2009 7:04:37 AM PST by fortheDeclaration ("Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people".-John Adams)
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To: fortheDeclaration
Falls in line with senate will never take up bill.
44 posted on 11/11/2009 8:15:42 AM PST by org.whodat (Vote: Chuck De Vore in 2012.)
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