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democrats who voted yes on the stupak amendment

a total of 64 democrats voted yes on the stupak amendment, helping it pass 240 to 194.to see a full list of names, states, and contact info, please check here. if you live in their districts, please let them know how you feel about this.

62 of those were men. the women are Dahlkemper (PA) and Kaptur (OH).

7 were from various parts of pennsylvania. 4 were from texas which surprised me because i didn’t know there were four democratic reps from texas. relatively few were from the west. 23 were from southern states.

all of them placed unreasonable restrictions on a legal medical procedure - the only medical procedure to be restricted in any way by the health reform bill.

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this goes out to people telling me that the amendment was necessary for the overall bill to pass

abbyjean:

As usual, if you want to get anything done in America, step one is to sacrifice the mental and physical health of women by making it an Abortion Issue. So although HR 218 passed about forty minutes ago, it passed with an amendment which prohibits any insurance company receiving federal funds from covering abortions. This has the charming effect of probably killing insurance coverage for abortion altogether, notes NARAL:

The Stupak-Pitts amendment makes it virtually impossible for private insurance companies that participate in the new system to offer abortion coverage to women. This would have the effect of denying women the right to use their own personal private funds to purchase an insurance plan with abortion coverage in the new health system — a radical departure from the status quo. Presently, more than 85 percent of private-insurance plans cover abortion services.

Charmingly I expect that in the next few days all your liberal dude friends will be trying to explain to you that this is really no big deal, look, they had to get the Republicans onboard SOMEHOW, this is just a battle but we won the war, etc etc. It all makes me want to crawl back up across the border. Why don’t these men ever notice that their go-to bargaining chip is women’s bodies? And if they do notice, why doesn’t it bother them? (harpyness)

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[M]any of the 39 Democrats that voted for the Stupak Amendment still voted against the final bill. Had all 39 Democrats who were voting against the bill anyway voted against Stupak, the amendment would have been soundly defeated. But this way they protected their own interests at the expense of millions of women in the United States.

Many Dems Who Voted For Stupak Still Voted Against the Bill | RHRealityCheck.org (via notemily) (via abbyjean)

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