Once again the wing-nuts in the House passed a bill that would give hospitals the right to refuse to provide emergency abortion services to women if they are morally opposed to abortion. This potentially means that a woman who is miscarrying could be refused care.
Face it, to the Republican wing-nuts, women are nothing but cattle. The care more about the unborn than the living because once your living, they'll happily walk you off to the gas chamber to kill you. Happily prevent you from getting the healthcare you might need. Its just maddening.
My question is...where is the focus on jobs? The fact of the matter is, the right-wing nuts don't have a clue as to how o create jobs...it was their policies that put us in the place we are today. They are obsessed with beating the the "magic" negro that currently resides in the White house and will do nothing to help advance the need for job creation in the short term.
Fruit loops!!
That's why the bill got blocked in the senate 50-49. We are 14 trillion in debt, the country can't afford to spend any more money.
The republicans passed a jobs bill thru the house, but it will get blocked in the senate. We're not going to see any real progress until one party controls the presidency, house and senate.
The republicans passed a jobs bill thru the house, but it will get blocked in the senate. We're not going to see any real progress until one party controls the presidency, house and senate.
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and misguided comments anyone -- and I mean anyone -- has ever posted on this board.
Is there really any reason for such levels of hatred?
It's not hateful at all....I just stated a plain truth observation. Why shouldn't a woman be in control of her own body. Why is it just a woman who is subject to the wing-nuts desire to prevent women from getting the healthcare she needs or desires.
Is there really any reason for such levels of hatred?
gas chamber remark. That was not necessary nor appropriate.
The final vote was 251-172 with 14 Democrats breaking ranks and voting with Republicans.
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The bill, which has 145 co-sponsors, allows for an exemption to the rule in cases of rape or incest, or when a mother's life is in danger.
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/230448/20111013/protect-life-act-house-to-vote-on-abortion-funding.htm
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The following language could be used to allow hospitals the right to refuse treatment:
‘‘(g) NONDISCRIMINATION ON ABORTION.—
21 ‘‘(1) NONDISCRIMINATION.—A Federal agency or
22 program, and any State or local government that re23
ceives Federal financial assistance under this Act (or
24 an amendment made by this Act), may not subject
25 any institutional or individual health care entity to
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1 discrimination, or require any health plan created or
2 regulated under this Act (or an amendment made by
3 this Act) to subject any institutional or individual
4 health care entity to discrimination, on the basis that
5 the health care entity refuses to—
6 ‘‘(A) undergo training in the performance
7 of induced abortions;
8 ‘‘(B) require or provide such training;
9 ‘‘(C) perform, participate in, provide cov10
erage of, or pay for induced abortions; or
11 ‘‘(D) provide referrals for such training or
12 such abortions.
13 ‘‘(2) DEFINITION.—In this subsection, the term
14 ‘health care entity’ includes an individual physician
15 or other health care professional, a hospital, a pro16
vider-sponsored organization, a health maintenance
17 organization, a health insurance plan, or any other
18 kind of health care facility, organization, or plan.
19 ‘‘(3) REMEDIES.—
20 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The courts of the
21 United States shall have jurisdiction to prevent
22 and redress actual or threatened violations of
23 this section by issuing any form of legal or equi24
table relief, including—
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1 ‘‘(i) injunctions prohibiting conduct
2 that violates this subsection; and
3 ‘‘(ii) orders preventing the disburse4
ment of all or a portion of Federal financial
5 assistance to a State or local government, or
6 to a specific offending agency or program of
7 a State or local government, until such time
8 as the conduct prohibited by this subsection
9 has ceased.
10 ‘‘(B) COMMENCEMENT
The final vote was 251-172 with 14 Democrats breaking ranks and voting with Republicans.
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The bill, which has 145 co-sponsors, allows for an exemption to the rule in cases of rape or incest, or when a mother's life is in danger.
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/230448/20111013/protect-life-act-house-to-vote-on-abortion-funding.htm
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and disregard the exemption to the rule in case of rape or incest or when the mother's life is in danger.
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The bill would contain a limitation on funding for abortion and abortion coverage (life of the mother, rape and incest exceptions) consistent with the policies applied to Medicaid, the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, and other federal programs.
H.R. 358 would state that no funds authorized or appropriated by PPACA, including tax credits and cost-sharing reductions, may be used to pay for abortion or abortion coverage except in cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother.
http://www.gop.gov/bill/112/1/hr358
c) Limitation on Abortion Funding-
`(1) IN GENERAL- No funds authorized or appropriated by this Act (or an amendment made by this Act), including credits applied toward qualified health plans under section 36B of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 or cost-sharing reductions under section 1402 of this Act, may be used to pay for any abortion or to cover any part of the costs of any health plan that includes coverage of abortion, except--
`(A) if the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest; or
`(B) in the case where a pregnant female suffers from a physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness that would, as certified by a physician, place the female in danger of death unless an abortion is performed, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c112:3:./temp/~c112fI3xXb::
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...politicians never give medical staff the ability to not treat people if they're morally opposed to treating kidney problems, or heart problems, or traumatic brain injuries. There's nothing that can be deemed "immoral" about giving care to a man, but when it comes to a woman's womb, Jesus freaks who think the world is 6,000 years old get to tell medical doctors what they can do in their profession.
How's that small government conservatism workin' for ya?