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Health care reform bill remains long shot in the Senate The Issue: House members representing Berks offer their prescriptions.

Is liberal opposition to the successful Stupak amendment in the House, and its equivalent being offered by Sen.

As the Senate debates health care reform, hundreds of Americans joined the American Civil Liberties Union and progressive and women's rights groups today to ask Congress to protect women's access to abortion care.

Pitts responds to Obama speech on Afghanistan By TOM MURSE 2009-12-02 13:13:00 Intelligencer Journal Lancaster New Era U.S. Rep.

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley this week separated herself from the gang of essentially like-minded candidates seeking to fill Senator Ted Kennedy's Washington seat by rejecting the US House of Representatives compromise that traded approval of a health-care-reform bill for greater restrictions to abortion access.

Join NOW President Terry O'Neill, Pennsylvania NOW President Joanne Tosti-Vasey and Lois Herr, candidate for Congress in a protest outside of the Chester County Courthouse in Pennsylvania.

Abortion-rights advocates are calling in the cavalry to help fight off an anti-abortion provision House Democratic leaders swallowed in order to win passage of their health care reform bill.

Pro Choice Groups Declare War on Anti-Abortion Amendment in Healthcare Bill Interview with Erin Matson, Action Vice President of the National Organization for Women, conducted by Melinda Tuhus When the House of Representatives passed a health care reform bill, the measure included what some advocates of abortion rights call the most sweeping ...

It was well past 11:30 last Friday night when a cluster of reporters starved for information descended on Nadeam Elshami as he exited the Speakera s Office in the U.S. Capitol.

I am a pro-choice liberal Democrat. I believe the Hyde Amendment, passed in 1977, which forbids the expenditure of federal tax dollars to fund abortions, directly or indirectly, is unfair and wrong.

Minor differences of opinion have arisen amongst pro-life support groups over the efficacy of the Stupak-Pitts Amendment which was added to the otherwise atrocious 2,000 page Pelosi care bill, narrowly passed by the House in the dead of night last Saturday.

Women's rights advocates are angry after an amendment restricting abortion access and funding was added to the health care reform bill, which the House of Representatives passed on Saturday.

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U.S. Reps. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., and Joseph Pitts, R-Pa. American women will pay the price for the Democratic dithering that allowed Saturday's passage of the Stupak-Pitts amendment, a worm virus inserted into the House healthcare reform bill with surgical precision.

Rachel Maddow runs down the list for us of C-Street family members who also voted for Bart Stupak's anti-abortion amendment yesterday.

A political storm gathered yesterday over efforts to restrict coverage for abortion in the health-care overhaul, threatening to swamp Democrats' efforts to pass President Obama's signature legislative initiative by year's end.

The bipartisan abortion amendment passed during Saturday's health care debate was co-sponsored by Rep.

Immediately after the Democrats' health care bill was passed, Rep. Joseph Pitts - who opposed the legislation - released the following statement: "Instead of passing health care reform with a united front of Democrats and Republicans, Speaker Nancy Pelosi chose to reject bipartisanship and twist arms to pass this bill with a slim majority.

The American Center for Law and Justice tonight applauded the passage of the pro-life amendment offered by Rep.

Washington, DC - U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, delivered the following remarks today on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in support of an amendment offered by Representatives Joseph Pitts and Bart Stupak , an amendment that would prohibit federal funding of abortions under the Pelosi health ...