Women’s Rights Group Outraged Over Abortion Amendment
Posted on: Wednesday, 11 November 2009, 12:37 CST
A women’s rights advocacy group urged the president earlier this week not to sign an amendment to the health care reform bill that would restrict abortion funding.
"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 Organization of Women (NOW).
The group is outraged over the Stupak-Pitts amendment to the government’s sweeping healthcare bill that would restrict access and funding to abortion.
O’Neill called the amendment “a giant leap in the direction of making abortion completely inaccessible to all of us."
Sixty-four Democrats and 176 Republicans voted to approve the amendment.
"They said they wouldn't have been able to get health care reform passed without this amendment," said O'Neill.
"And they say, 'What are you worried about? At least we got health care reforms through.'
"We want the Senate to drop the amendment, and if they don't, we are going to pressure the president not to sign it. They should be more concerned that they have passed a bill that gives women only partial health care than about angering the Catholic church," O'Neill said.
"Here come all these men, who have never had to worry about missing a period, and they pass a health care bill for 49 percent of the population."
"Well, as one of the 51 percent who only got a partial health care bill, let me say we are irritated," she said.
The NOW group says that birth control and abortion “are integral aspects of women's health care needs.”
“Health care reform should not be a vehicle to obliterate a woman's fundamental right to choose.”
The group claims that the amendment goes far beyond the “abusive” Hyde Amendment, which denied federal funding for abortion since 1976.
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Source: RedOrbit Staff & Wire Reports
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User Comments (8)
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Posted by Debbie Al-Harbi on 11/11/2009, 20:10 i don't want my hard earned dollars paying for killing babies.if you get pregnant and want an abortion you pay for it or keep your legs closed. |
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Posted by Debbie Al-Harbi on 11/11/2009, 19:51 i don't wantr my hard earned money paying for the murder of innocent babies.if you want an abortion pay for it yourself. |
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Posted by Debbie Al-Harbi on 11/11/2009, 19:49 If you get pregnant and want to kill your unborn baby than pay for it yourself.i don't want my hard earned dollars paying for murdering innocent helpless babies.and for God's sake use birth control or control yourself.and get a job if you can't afford it.I am not judging people but i don't believe in it so why should I have to pay for it.it is cruel. |
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Posted by Rebecca on 11/11/2009, 17:19 If you are a woman worried about \"missing a period\" then make sure you use protection or birth control before you have sex! It is not MY responsibility to pay for your mistake or irresponsibility that leads you kill an innocent child as a form of birth control! When did it become ok to murder a child because they are an inconvenience? |
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Posted by coogdad on 11/11/2009, 17:16 If you don't like that these few men pass legislation effecting 49% of the population, then why don't we allow the population to vote whether to have legalized abortions. I didn't think so.... |
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Posted by Carol E. Still on 11/11/2009, 16:26 Even though my daughter Susan, at 57 years old, is mentally retarded I am brought back to the time of choice concerning an abortion. As most things in life, the main thing is '"choice" I chose to have my daughter Susan born to me and her father, Jack Burton Still. I remember the great stress back when Sue was born when fathers divorced over this or insisted that "these children" be sent to an institution. (this was a common thing back then ) But we parents gathered together in Grosse Pte. MI and formed an ARC. Soon parents all over the state were lobbying for the newly forming "trainable program" for the public schools/ Abortion then and now must be a right for profound reasons I have experienced. If a young unmarried woman should face a birth of a child with a disability, she, obviously needs the right to this abortion because of the increased difficulties of raising a retarded child. No longer can these children be simply sent to an institution and all that entails. Having Sue has helped me become a political activist throughout the years and her sister and I are able to provide support for her group home and her loving providers. |
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Posted by redOrbit reader on 11/11/2009, 15:38 "They should be more concerned that they have passed a bill that gives women only partial health care than about angering the Catholic church" I really don't think its about angering the Catholic church, when will these thick-headed idiots get it? Its not about the church, its about women who want to use murder as birth control, and taxpayers should not have to support it! Partial healthcare? Abortion isn't healthcare! But I am sure that if you went to your doctor, the taxpayers would provide free preventative healthcare by giving you the options of condoms, diaphrams, the pill, and also reasons not to have sex pamplets telling you when you have sex you can get pregnant! So its not like the flu, you can't get it if someone sneezes on you, you get it by spreading your legs without taking the precautions to avoid unwanted pregnancy! Taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for your carelessness, you should! |
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Posted by gus landeros on 11/11/2009, 15:07 Abortion is not health care and the majority of americans including women are pro-life. We do not support taxpayer dollars to pay for the killing of the unborn. |
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