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GRITtv: N.Y. Activists Take On Stupak
On December 2, 2009, activists from NARAL Pro-Choice New York, Planned Parenthood, the New York Civil Liberties Union, and the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health headed to Washington, D.C., for a day of lobbying against the Stupak amendment to the health care bill, which drastically sets back women's access to safe and legal abortion.
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The House passed its version of health-care legislation Saturday night by a vote of 220 to 215 after the approval of an amendment which amounts to a not-very-back door abortion ban for everyone but the very rich. It's sexist, it's classist, it goes well beyond the heinous Hyde Amendment ban on public funding for abortion--and it passed with the support of 64 Democrats, roughly a quarter of the caucus. The House move had less to do with majority than it had to do with theocracy. Why is it that from Bangor to the Beltway, church pressure works on even liberal Democrats, even as no politician in America seems to be afraid of losing votes over being anti-choice? And it's not too late for the liberal campaign contributors to close their wallets until they find out.
