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Anti-Abortion Bills Crowding Onto U.S. House Agenda
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyIn a year when fixing the economy is expected to dominate debate on Capitol Hill, abortion -- an issue that won't go away -- is crowding onto the Republican agenda. Two bills -- one permanently barring taxpayer funding of abortions and the other forbidding federally financed abortion coverage under the new health care law -- got hearings this week in the House. And they riled up activists on both sides of the debate. Emotions came to the fore Tuesday at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act. It attempts to write into permanent law the 1976 ...
What Is Patrick Leahy's Religion?
By jeanette friedman - Politics DailyThe incumbent U.S. senator from Vermont and Democrat Patrick Leahy is seeking re-election against Republican Len Britton. As part of a Politics Daily series providing background about the major candidates in 2010, here are some answers to frequently asked questions about his life. What is Patrick Leahy's religion? Leahy is Roman Catholic. Where does Patrick Leahy worship? Leahy worships in St. Andrews in Waterbury, Vt. and Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Washington, D.C. Was Patrick Leahy born a Roman Catholic, or did he convert? Leahy was born a Roman Catholic, to an Irish Catholic father ...
Barbara Boxer vs. Carly Fiorina: A Proxy War for the Abortion Debate?
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyRecent polling suggests it's a real possibility that California Sen. Barbara Boxer might lose to Carly Fiorina in November. A Boxer loss in a "safe" Democratic state like California would be a major symbolic loss for Democrats. It also would have major policy implications for the liberal agenda, including the always-with-us, hot-button issue of abortion. For this reason, while the economy remains the No. 1 issue in the campaign, the abortion debate cannot be overlooked as it pertains to this race. "Losing Barbara Boxer in the Senate would be a major blow for the pro-choice movement," says ...
Abortion Rights Advocates "Outraged" at Obama White House Over Health Coverage
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyA leading abortion rights group called on its members Sunday to pressure the White House to reverse course and make sure abortion coverage is included when new insurance coverage becomes available under the health care law President Obama signed last March. "To our dismay, the Obama administration just announced it will exclude abortion coverage in the temporary health-insurance pools that will transition us into the new health-care system," wrote Nancy Keenan, who is the president of NARAL Pro-Choice America. "I am outraged that such a decision would come from a pro-choice president that ...
NARAL Pro-Choice America Endorses Joe Sestak for Senate in Pennsylvania
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyWith less than a week before next Tuesday's Democratic Senate primary in Pennsylvania, Rep. Joe Sestak picked up an endorsement from a key abortion-rights group. The political action committee of NARAL Pro-Choice America announced Wednesday it was endorsing and contributing $5,000 to Sestak's bid against incumbent and former Republican Sen. Arlen Specter. Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL, said a Sestak victory would provide Pennsylvanians with a "consistent pro-choice voice" on Capitol Hill. "Joe Sestak will be a strong voice for women's freedom and privacy in the U.S. Senate," Keenan ...
Abortion Rights Backers Threaten Primaries, 'No' Votes on Health
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyThere's nothing like a painful, unexpected defeat to focus the mind and, potentially, the money. For supporters of abortion rights, that moment arrived when the House added to its historic health bill an amendment that would limit abortion coverage and those who can buy it. Anger, frustration and threats are in the air. It's too early to say whether the abortion rights lobby is a sleeping giant, but it is definitely, some would say finally, awake. Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL ProChoice America, was in a fighting mood in an interview on Monday. "There's elections coming up in 2010. We will ...
Obama Reverses Himself on Abortion Policy Reversal
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe plan was for President Barack Obama to reverse the so-called Mexico City policy restricting funding to international family planning organizations that perform, sponsor, or counsel abortions overseas on his first or second day in office. But the plan did not survive contact with the Oval Office. President Obama reportedly will delay a decision on reversing the policy, which was first put in place by President Ronald Reagan and alternately reversed and reinstated by successive Democratic and Republican administrations, until at least Friday. Or he could sell to have Congress overturn the ...
Roe v. Wade More Than a Scare Tactic
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThe LA Times reports that, although warnings about protecting Roe v Wade (the Supreme Court decision that gives women the right to choose whether to end a pregnancy or not) are viewed by many as the clucking of Chicken Littles (Chickens Little?), the danger is very real this time around.This time, Roe vs. Wade really could hang in the balance If Justices John Paul Stevens, pictured, or Ruth Bader Ginsburg were to be replaced by a staunch conservative, that could tip the majority against abortion rights. The Supreme Court's onetime wide majority in favor of abortion rights has shrunk to one: ...
Does McCain Have a Problem With Women?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyAccording to blogger and radio host Taylor Marsh, the answer is pretty clear. Monday's incident, in which John McCain volunteered his wife for a topless beauty contest at the Sturgis, South Dakota biker bash, is but one more instance of what Marsh sees as a pattern of sexist behavior from the Arizona Senator:Hello, all of you anti Obama zealots, got misogyny? That's your man, John McCain, a where's Pakistan?, Sunni or Shia - who cares?, bomb-bomb-bomb Iran, Take my wife topless please, kind of guy. You can add McCain offering up his wife for a topless contest to what John McCain once said ...
Hold on a Second, Sweetie
By David Knowles - Politics DailyThe gold standard of YouTube gaffedom was given to us from former Virginia Senator George Allen, whose odd "macaca" moment almost single-handedly sank his re-election bid. Yesterday, another video-taped snafu occurred on the campaign trail. Some would have you believe that, this time, Senator Barack Obama is on the losing end of the "loose lips sink ships" dictum. Have a look:Ouch. That's no way to address a female news reporter. Even if she's firing out inane, persistent questions during your choreographed visit to a Detroit automaker. So, drum roll please, does this mean that we've finally ...
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