The Florida National Organization for Women will protest Saturday against an anti-abortion measure in the House health care bill. The demonstration will be held Saturday morning outside Sen. Bill Nelson's office in West Palm Beach.
The House added the amendment barring funding for abortions as a way to appease reluctant Democrats, [...]
The Florida National Organization for Women will host a protest outside Bill Nelson's West Palm Beach office Saturday to oppose a provision in the House health care bill that restricts abortion coverage. The provision is not in the Senate version and Florida NOW wants to keep it that way.
“We cannot [...]
President Obama, who just gave away control of the internet, is going to have to replace his Science Czar John Holdren. Holdren, who advocated forced abortions to save the planet and warned of a new ice age, is neck deep in Climategate.
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Two things you should know about this edition. First, without boring you too much with inside baseball-type stuff, there was a fairly interesting back-and-forth on the Florida Progressive list-serve recently on the issue of the Stupak Amendment and whether or not an elective abortion represented “healing.” (Yes, it was [...]
On November 7th, I submitted a Diary entry titled, "Voters Will Forgive Almost Anything, Except..." The remaining part of the sentence is:
1. Stealing from the public treasury,
2. Breaking your word,
3. A hypocrite--do what I say, not what I do,
4. Voting wrong on incendiary issues, like abortion, pay raises, and immigration, [...]
Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink, the leading Democratic candidate for governor, stopped short of calling for an outright repeal of the state law banning gay adoption but said the decision should be up to judges, on a case by case basis.
"We need a system in which all of our children" [...]
Shortly before her town hall meeting today in Pembroke Pines, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz talked about Saturday's vote on healthcare legislation in Congress. The bill contained an amendment -- opposed by all Florida Democrats, even the two who voted against the overall bill -- that bans insurance companies that [...]
One of the dramatic moments during yesterday's marathon health care debate was an amendment barring any government-subsidized insurance plan from covering abortions. It passed with the help of 64 Democrats. But none was from Florida.
All 10 Democrats voted against the amendment; all 15 Republicans voted for the measure.
