Diana DeGette News

Main Category: Abortion Also Included In: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance Article Date: 17 Nov 2009 - 3:00 PST The issue of abortion coverage has put abortion-rights supporters in Congress at odds over whether to support health care reform legislation, the New York Times ' " Prescriptions " blog reports.

Democrat Rep. Dianne DeGette of Colorado is leading the charge to keep abortion funding in the Obamacare/Pelosicare government health care takeover bill.

The genie is out of the bottle. A And the challenge now facing Congressional Democratic leaders is how to put the genie back in the bottle.

Eleanor Roosevelt pioneered the concept that presidential wives should do more than serve as hostesses at state dinners; she wrote newspaper and magazine columns, hit the lecture circuit and spoke on radio shows about social and political issues ranging from stretching family budgets during the Great Depression to the role of women in the armed ...

Even as Democrats trudge along with their health care overhaul plan, skepticism amid the U.S. public abounds.

Rep. Diana DeGette is rallying progressives against Rep. Bart Stupak's anti-abortion amendment.

Washington D.C., Nov 19, 2009 .- Countering critics who claim the Stupak Amendment will be altered or stripped from Congress' health care reform bill, Rep.

The inclusion in the House health reform bill of an anti-abortion amendment sponsored by Michigan Democratic Rep.

Main Category: Abortion Also Included In: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance ; Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine Article Date: 18 Nov 2009 - 4:00 PST rate article The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries.

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins today called on President Obama and Congressional leaders to repudiate comments made by U.S. Rep.

Michelle Obama and her Women of Excellence posse will travel to Denver, Colorado on Monday to see if they can whip some students into shape and get them to buy into the White House mentoring and leadership program.

Taxpayers currently provide deep subsidies for health insurance plans that cover abortion - a little-recognized fact responsible for much of the angst over an anti-abortion amendment attached to the House health care bill.

BOSTON - It was one of those small shocks that come unexpectedly in the wake of a death.

Hello, American women. Welcome to the back of the bus. How did we end up here? We were pushed back six decades in time courtesy of an amendment to the House version of healthcare reform, approved this past weekend, called the Stupak-Pitts amendment.

Two Colorado congressmen spent more than $100,000 each of taxpayer money last year to mail constituents fliers that critics say are really a way to bolster their campaigns, a CALL7 investigation found.

MICHEL MARTIN, host: MARTIN: Now we go to Congresswoman Diana DeGette. She represents the 1st District of Colorado in the Congress.

Denver Democrats, gathered for their first annual Edward M. Kennedy dinner last weekend, were witness to the announcement that the long-awaited historic - and contentious - health care reform bill championed by the late U.S. Senator from Massachusetts had narrowly passed the House of Representatives, 220-215. The news, delivered by dinner guest ...

The calendar is looming as the biggest obstacle as the White House and congressional Democrats race to complete an overhaul of the U.S. health-care system.

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Welcome to the back of the bus. How did we end up here? We were pushed back six decades in time courtesy of an amendment to the House version of health care reform, approved this past weekend, called the Stupak-Pitts amendment.