AOL News has a new home! The Huffington Post.
Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Hot on HuffPost:
Supreme Court To Decide Blockbuster Cases Soon
Controversial Book On Obama Appears To Have Lifted Key Quote
stupak amendment
Democrats Find New Ground on Abortion
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (March 22) -- The Democrat who helped House leaders secure the last few votes needed to pass landmark health care legislation might not have been treated so solicitously at the party's convention the year he was elected to Congress. In 1992, when Bart Stupak was running for his first term in Michigan's 1st Congressional District, Pennsylvania Gov. Robert Casey Sr. was denied a speaking slot at the Democratic National Convention in New York. Casey was the namesake for a pivotal U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld a state's right to restrict abortions. He accused the Clinton-Gore ...
Ben Nelson Will Block Health Reform Without Abortion Restrictions
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailySen. Ben Nelson, a Democrat from Nebraska, plans to introduce an anti-abortion amendment to the Senate health care reform bill. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday he expects a measure later this week that is similar to the House amendment, which restricts direct or indirect funding for abortion in the proposed health insurance exchanges. Although Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah had planned to take the lead in the Senate on the abortion amendment, Reid said the language will actually be offered by Nelson. "It appears at this stage that Sen. Nelson's going to offer the ...
Pollster Celinda Lake: Where Women Really Stand on Health Care
By Martha Burk - Politics DailyWomen's groups expressed dismay on November 7 when the House passed a health care bill with unprecedented abortion restrictions. The Stupak-Pitts amendment prohibits any health plan participating in the proposed nationwide exchange from offering abortion coverage, meaning virtually all plans. The initial alarm has now turned to anger and mobilized a backlash against Democrats who voted for the amendment, along with a nationwide push to keep the restrictions out of the upcoming Senate bill. With the full Senate tackling the legislation this weekend, I thought it was a good time to have a ...
Women Still Losing in Health Care Reform
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyThis weekend's long-awaited passage of health care reform by the House also included one unexpected provision: the Stupak amendment, which would restrict insurance coverage of abortions. I am pro-choice, but my opposition to the Stupak amendment is based on issues well beyond that. At least part of the reason many women -- myself included -- backed health care reform was because of insurance companies' appalling double standard. For years, insurance companies have been blithely charging women higher premiums, writing maternity care out of policies, and refusing to pay for a host of women's ...
Follow Politics Daily
POPULAR
- Nancy Pelosi Confirms House May Skip Up or Down Vote on Senate Health Bill
- Debrahlee Lorenzana: A Double Take on Those Double D's
- Palin Earnings Estimated at $12 Million
- Campbell Brown Quits CNN With Shockingly Frank Farewell
- The Five Most Racist Obama Cartoons?
- Soraya M., Stoned to Death for Being an "Inconvenient Wife''
- Jimmy Carter Leaves Church Over Treatment of Women
- No posts are available.
News From Our Partners
- Dragon arrives at space station in historic 1st
- Picking new leader, Egyptians search for superman
- Egyptians vote in first free presidential vote
- Moon chips from Vegas casino mogul sent to NASA
- Egyptians vote to rid nation of autocratic rule
- More Stories »
- Romneys Love Fancy World of Rarefied Sport
- Rudy Giuliani: Mitt's Great. I'm Just Better
- 'Masters of the Universe' Sure Have Fragile Egos
- Romney: My Mistakes 'Haunt Me'
- Newt Lauds Romney: He's Like Eisenhower
- More Stories »
- A Veteran’s Journey To Hell And Back
- The 7 Best Moments from Sunday Talk
- Know Your Enemy
- Cannes’s Mischief Maker
- Cut It Out, Internet Bullies!
- More Stories »
- Ambition Counteracting Ambition
- Robert Blagojevich Speaks Out
- In Iowa, Obama Calls Romney's Words 'A Cow Pie of Distortion'
- In Iowa, Obama Calls On Congress to Act on Clean Energy Tax Credits
- Romney Has Interesting Morning in Inner-City Philly
- More Stories »
Top News
More News
More on Aol
Local News
More Blog/Sites
Sites and Services
HuffPost Politics