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seafan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-07-09 03:52 PM
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Once again, women's bodies are at the battlefront of wannabe Taliban occupying our government.
Also, where is contraception in these health care bills?, October 31, 2009



Today, the battle rages over the Stupak Amendment, November 7, 2009


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The decision could be that insurance companies who offer plans covering abortion on the exchange would be allowed to turn down customers using affordability tax credits. This would create a dangerous loophole for the new guaranteed issue rule. This could lead to the ghettoizing of the health insurance exchange. Insurers would know that offering plans that cover abortion would prevent low income Americans from being able to sign up. Low income Americans tend to have higher medical costs and are less profitable, less desirable customers. Offering abortion coverage would be a simple way for an insurance company to keep them out of their risk pool. Since the exchange has dangerously weak risk adjustment mechanisms, this Stupak Amendment could become a profitable tool used by insurers to discriminate against low income Americans.

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Nice that Bart Stupak, a member of The Family cult that hangs out in the House on C Street is pushing amendments to discriminate against more than 50% of the population of the U. S.


Uh, Mr. Stupak?

Women are NOT a special interest group. Just yesterday, a brave policewoman named Kim Munley stopped a mass murderer at the largest U. S. military base in the world.



How can these men pushing these regressive policies face themselves in the mirror every morning?



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PeaceNikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-07-09 03:53 PM
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1. Stupak and his DFLA can FOADIAF.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-07-09 03:55 PM
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2. How can they face themselves?
By not considering the female half of the population to be fully human, that's how. To them, we're just mindless cattle to be bred at will.

Such is the mindset of patriarchy, especially religious patriarchy.
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The Straight Story Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-07-09 04:03 PM
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3. I just wish more would really believe 'My body, My choice'
Sad that fundies on the right and left toss that simple ideal out so often.
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dmr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-07-09 04:09 PM
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5. +1
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BlancheSplanchnik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-07-09 04:08 PM
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4. K and f*ing R
:nuke:
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foxfeet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-07-09 04:18 PM
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6. K&R
:mad:
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Zoeisright Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-07-09 04:31 PM
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7. The most amazing thing to me is that they can whine that single payer
would be 'putting a bureaucrat between you and your doctor' with a straight face. When that's exactly what they want to do with their anti-choice bullshit.
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Autumn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-07-09 04:31 PM
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8. Is erectile dysfunction covered?
I fucking hope not.:nuke: :grr:
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The Straight Story Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-07-09 04:32 PM
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9. Is that caused by someone's actions or naturally? (nt)
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Autumn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-07-09 04:35 PM
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10. Should it matter? n/t
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The Straight Story Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-07-09 04:44 PM
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11. In my world - no, it does not. (nt)
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Bitwit1234 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-07-09 05:27 PM
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12. Well MCDonnell from Virginia
made it plain the republican take on what they thought women should do. Guess the women in Virginia have been beaten down enough they went along with it.
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