Balloon Juice (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Apparently Ben Nelson wants to join Bart Stupak and make sure there are acrimonious debates about cultural issues in a bill designed to improve health care: Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) will attempt to strengthen language in the healthcare reform bill prohibiting federal funding of abortion, he said. Nelson, a key swing vote on the overall bill and [...]
Delaware Liberal (Free subscription) | yesterday
A member of the Ugandan parliament who is also a member of the religious group “The Family” (prominent U.S. members include John Ensign, Tom Coburn, Mark Sanford and Bart Stupak – the Cheat Street crew) has proposed a new law in Uganda: The Ugandan parliament is currently considering an “Anti-Homosexuality Bill,” under which any person “convicted [...]...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Opinion pieces published recently in four newspapers addressed the issue of abortion coverage in health reform legislation and the antiabortion amendment by Reps. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) and Joe Pitts (R-Pa.) included in the House health reform bill (HR 3962). Summaries appear below. ~ Michelle Wright, Charleston Gazette: "Stupak's amendment is a cynical attempt to push an anti-choice...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Some abortion-rights supporters have threatened to block health reform legislation if language like Rep. Bart Stupak's (D-Mich.) amendment to the House bill (HR 3962) is included in the final measure, but "I predict their bluff won't be called," Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus writes in a Newsweek opinion piece. "In the end, the dispute will be resolved, with a few...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Some abortion-rights supporters have threatened to block health reform legislation if language like Rep. Bart Stupak's (D-Mich.) amendment to the House bill (HR 3962) is included in the final measure, but "I predict their bluff won't be called," Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus writes in a Newsweek opinion piece. "In the end, the dispute will be resolved, with a few...
Bark Bark Woof Woof (Free subscription) | yesterday
"The Family" is the secretive religious group behind the now-infamous house on C Street in Washington, D.C. where a group of senators and congressmen, including John Ensign (R-NV) and Bart Stupak (D-MI) spent time. It's also the subject of a book by Jeff Sharlet, an investigative reporter who spent time infiltrating the group, and as he recently told Terry Gross of NPR's Fresh...
I Luv SA (Free subscription) | yesterday
Seems as though the Yankee Bishops are not to pleased with Obbummer's Health Plan. Is the Church Militant Back? By Patrick J. Buchanan With the House debate on health care at its hottest, the U.S. Catholic bishops issued a stunning ultimatum: Impose an absolute ban on tax funds for abortions, or we call for defeat of the Pelosi bill. Message received. The Stupak Amendment, named for Bart...
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
... the church. Kennedy did not back down. On November 7, he voted against the amendment sponsored by Bart Stupak- (D-MI 1) and Joe Pitts (R-PA 16) that would prohibit federal funds from paying for any part of a health insurance plan that covers abortion. He was not the only Catholic Democrat to do so. In fact, only 36 Catholic Democrats voted for the amendment while 50 including Kennedy...
jillstanek.com (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
... we're winning. Here are some "choice" excerpts... Most New Yorkers hadn't heard of Bart Stupak before he attached his devastating anti-abortion amendment to the House's health-care-reform bill 3 weeks ago.... And the results sent chills through the pro-choice world.... But... [w]as Stupak's truly the minority view? According to a Gallup poll from July, 60% of Americans...
Balloon Juice (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
... group and its C Street house into the national spotlight. And just this month, Family members Rep. Bart Stupak, a Catholic Democrat from Michigan, and Rep. Joe Pitts, an evangelical Republican from Pennsylvania, brought more attention to the secretive group when their Stupak-Pitts Amendment passed as part of the House health-care reform bill, threatening to further restrict...
David Lindsay (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
... ban on tax funds for abortions, or we call for defeat of the Pelosi bill. Message received. The Stupak Amendment, named for Bart Stupak of Michigan, was promptly passed, to the delight of pro-life Catholics and the astonished outrage of pro-abortion Democrats. No member was more upset than Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island, son of Edward Kennedy, who proceeded to bash the Church...
Rising Hegemon (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
... some of these prominent Republicans and Democrats about stuff like this (how about starting with Bart Stupak and Chuck Grassley? ... seeing as it leads to actual policies that are, to say the least, abhorent and malevolent. Here's some people they could ask: Here is a list of current elected officials Sharlet mentioned in the interview who he says are associated with the Family: *...
Mia Culpa (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
... help of several Congressman and Senators who are connected to the group, including John Ensign, Bart Stupak, Joe Pitts, James Inhofe, Tom Coburn, Charles Grassley and Zach Wamp.[Emphasis mine.] The Family is active in America and around the world.A bit surprising, although not shocking, is that Democratic Representative (Who also is opposed to ) could be a homophobic hate-monger who...
New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Most New Yorkers hadn’t heard of Bart Stupak before he attached his devastating anti-abortion amendment to the House’s health-care-reform bill three weeks ago. We know a lot more about him now, of course: that he lives in a Christian rooming house on C Street; that he’s a former state trooper. He has become a symbol of legislative zealotry, living proof that the fight over the right to...
Brilliant at Breakfast (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
... group and its C Street house into the national spotlight. And just this month, Family members Rep. Bart Stupak, a Catholic Democrat from Michigan, and Rep. Joe Pitts, an evangelical Republican from Pennsylvania, brought more attention to the secretive group when their Stupak-Pitts Amendment passed as part of the House health-care reform bill, threatening to further restrict...
