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Abortion Activists Mobilize Against Stupak-Pitts

Aim is to kill bill in Senate, or back in House, at any cost

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(Newser) – Abortion rights activists are organizing a massive grassroots effort and targeting lawmakers to ensure the hated Stupak-Pitts Amendment never reaches the president’s desk. The coalition of groups is first meeting with senators and organizing a phone drive and petition to keep the House language out of the Senate's bill. Failing that, they are preparing a roadblock in the House to stymie the entire bill.

“We will oppose any health care bill that includes anything like Stupak/Pitts,” the president of the National Organization for Women tells Politico. The coalition also includes Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and some 80 other groups. The situation is dicey. Should the amendment pass muster in the Senate—where Majority Leader Harry Reid is ambivalent about abortion rights and up for reelection—it will almost certainly be in the conference bill. Still, 41 House Dems have pledged to vote against a bill containing the language.

Abortion rights supporters and anti-abortion supporters march in front of the Supreme Court in Washington.
Abortion rights supporters and anti-abortion supporters march in front of the Supreme Court in Washington.   (AP Photo)
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They passed health care reform for half the nation and partial health care reform for the rest of us. We will oppose any health care bill that includes anything like Stupak/Pitts. - Terry O’Neill, NOW president

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DontLikeYou
Nov 12, 09 9:32 AM CST
I"ve found it difficult to understand how anyone can run around supporting the murder of an unborn child. It sends shivers down my spine to thinig there are people like this walking among us. Reply
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DontLikeYou
Nov 12, 09 9:33 AM CST
BTW, the leftists in Congress will give in to the pro-death abortion loons... which will be the reason why the Senate will not pass the Health Care reform bill.
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RockyPneumonia
Nov 12, 09 9:37 AM CST
Not a problem, dly; all you have to do is to prove that aborting a fetus is "murder" and I'll be marching right alongside you. Of course, shouting, "It is! It is!" is not "proof". Neither is shouting it even more loudly.
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myvoice
Nov 12, 09 9:49 AM CST
I love how the anti abortion people are also anti welfare! think about it RWW!
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tomodachi
Nov 12, 09 9:53 AM CST
@myvoice: Yeah... to them every fetus is sacred... unless it needs to be fed after it's born.
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