The Senate tonight killed an anti-abortion amendment that was backed by Sen. George V. Voinovich, R-Ohio.The amendment, which would have prohibited private and government health care plans in a new insurance exchange from covering abortion, failed by a vote of 54-45.
In a floor speech, Voinovich endorsed the amendment [...]
Abortion Takes Center Stage (Again)
A month ago, House leaders were forced into a corner by conservative Democrats insisting that health reform legislation include language prohibiting abortion coverage on the exchange. This week, the scenario is threatening to play out again in the upper chamber, where [...]
Chris Matthews corners Rhode Island Bishop Thomas Tobin, who has banned Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., from receiving Holy Communion due to his views on abortion.
In the interview Mathews exposes the moral hypocrisy at the heart of the Church's abortion position: If it's really and truly murder, you're talking about prosecuting' [...]
I have been writing for months that the acid test for this effort lies less in the publicized fight over the public option or the issue of abortion coverage than [...]
Small sample below, the rancor of the right pushes Ohio to elect extreme right idealogues.
Voted YES on making it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime. (Feb 2004)
Voted YES on banning partial-birth abortion except to save mother’s life. (Oct 2003)
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How the Stupak Amendment Violates The Establishment Clause
First, the Amendment violates the Constitution's separation of church and state. The anti-abortion movement is plainly religious in motivation, and its lobbyists and spokespersons represent religious groups, as is illustrated by the fact that the most visible lobbyists [...]
Saying that nobodys ever said it would be easy, Sen. Sherrod Brown predicted that a final health care bill will be on President Obamas desk by Jan. 10 at the latest but possibly yet this year.
With abortion coverage restrictions part of the House bill and some Senate centrists [...]
Barack Hussein Obama said yesterday that Congress needs to change abortion-related language in the health care bill passed by the House of Representatives this weekend. Yes, Mr. Obama wants you, the taxpayer, to join him in paying for infanticide.
“I laid out a very simple principle, which is this is a [...]
What the first part of the legal mandate that the Stupak Amendment would impose is not new. It echoes the law laid down back in 1976 by the Hyde Amendment, which already forbids the use of federal funds to pay for most abortions. The [...]
U.S. Senate candidate Jennifer Brunner today assailed moderate U.S. House Democrats for including an anti-abortion plank in a bill narrowly approved Saturday that would overhaul the nations health care system.
Brunner, the Ohio secretary of state and a candidate for next years Democratic nomination for the Senate, took dead [...]
