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  • Abortion amendment 'throws women under bus'

    11/10/2009 7:46:18 AM PST · by myknowledge · 43 replies · 1,133+ views
    The Telegraph ^ | November 10, 2009 | Karin Zeitvogel
    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. "We had the most pro-choice candidate in decades, but we don't have the most pro-choice president," said Terry O'Neill, president of the half-million-strong National Organisation of Women. "The Stupak-Pitts amendment is a giant leap in the direction of making abortion completely inaccessible to all of us," O'Neill said. Sixty-four Democrats joined 176 Republicans to vote for the amendment, named after co-authors Representative Bart Stupak, a Democrat, and Republican lawmaker Joseph Pitts....