Tag Archives: pro-life

unintended consequences: Stupak Amendment & miscarriages edition

One of the most inter­est­ing things I have read about the Stu­pak Amend­ment is this: Will the Stu­pak Amend­ment Affect Insur­ance Cov­er­age for Mis­car­riages? I Think So Sadly, the author expe­ri­enced a mis­car­riage recently. In her case, as some­times hap­pens, the fetus had yet to be expelled. She was put in the dif­fi­cult posi­tion of either wait­ing

thoughts on NOW and the Stupak Amendment

Dis­claimer: I haven’t been fol­low­ing the health care stuff too closely, because it is exhaust­ing, but this par­tic­u­lar aspect inter­ests me. The National Orga­ni­za­tion for Women is very upset because the Stu­pak Amend­ment passed and is part of the health care bill that passed the house the other day. Accord­ing to the NYT, the Amend­ment “would

feminism, abortion and universal health care

So, I’ve been warm­ing up on this blog for a while now, so I fig­ure it’s time to start link­ing to other blogs that I read. Today’s sub­ject is a post over at Fem­i­niste, “one of the old­est fem­i­nist blogs designed by and run by women from the ground up.” Just as back­ground, let me