My first Newsweek story: Senate May Thwart Stupak

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By Lindsay Beyerstein

My first Newsweek story, on the Stupak Amendment, the senate bill, and what's next in the fight over abortion access under health reform.

National abortion-rights advocacy groups were outraged when the House passed the Stupak amendment
to the health-care bill. The amendment—named for its sponsor,
Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak—would bar patients who receive government
affordability credits from buying health insurance that covers elective
abortions, even if they pay for the abortion component with their own
money. It seemed as if the reproductive-rights establishment had been
blindsided by Speaker Nancy Pelosi's last-minute deal to placate the
conservative Democrats in Congress and the U.S. Conference of Catholic
Bishops (USCCB). The reality is much more complicated. […]

22 thoughts on “My first Newsweek story: Senate May Thwart Stupak”

  1. Not bad… So if you take out the pro-choice members who voted for the Stupak amendment, you lose the bill? And a lot of that was members who weren’t clear on what “Stupak” was?
    Is there any real concern, then, that this section could survive reconciliation?

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  2. Not bad… So if you take out the pro-choice members who voted for the Stupak amendment, you lose the bill? And a lot of that was members who weren’t clear on what “Stupak” was?
    Is there any real concern, then, that this section could survive reconciliation?

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  3. Interesting article. There is a repeated bit on Page 3 that you might want to fix (second/third to last paragraphs are almost identical but for some formatting).

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  4. Interesting article. There is a repeated bit on Page 3 that you might want to fix (second/third to last paragraphs are almost identical but for some formatting).

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