Women should not 'take one for the team' on abortion coverage
(NEWSER) - Painting the Stupak-Pitts amendment as a necessary evil—a concession women should make for the “greater good” of health care reform—is ridiculous, Katha Pollitt writes. Women have been consistently sidelined by the “theocrats and male chauvinists” throwing their weight around in the Democratic Party. “Why don't you take one for the team for a change and see how you like it?” she says, suggesting that instead of women caving on abortion coverage, maybe men could cave on, say, coverage for Viagra or prostate cancer. More»
