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GRITtv: Healthcare Day of Action Jan. 13
The final fight over the health care reform bill is coming up, and women's health care been a key issue throughout, as we've reported many times. This video from Not Under the Bus is here to remind us not to give up and to take action to ensure women don't get thrown under the bus for the sake of reform. January 13 is the national day of action!
Email this pageGRITtv: The F Word: Why Do We Trust The Church On Health?
For over forty years, power-drunk Catholic leaders have accused independently-minded women of committing all manner of crimes and immoralities. It's ironic, considering church leaders' role in pervasive, prolonged and systematic child abuse. Not for universal coverage, they pushed a measure that seeks to strip millions of women of affordable health coverage and reproductive choice. Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky vowed in a speech Monday that the so-called Stupak-Pitts amendment wouldn't make it into the final bill, but the Church is all over Washington, and it's shown that it still has a hold on our politics. Can some one please explain: why is that? … Tell me again: Why are we listening to those who cover for child abusers tell us anything, anything at all, about health? … And you might add -- and why are they tax-exempt? -- Laura Flanders
