URGENT: Anti-Choice rider being sneaked through Congress!
The Blogging of the President: 2004
Thanks to Shaula Evans at BOPNews.com for the heads up. This passed the House with nary a whimper, but if we all get after our Senators, we might be able to stop it.
The Guardian reports that another assault on reproductive freedom has quietly passed the house:
A little-noticed provision cleared the House of Representatives last week that would prohibit local, state or federal authorities from requiring any institution or health care professional to provide abortions, pay for them, or make abortion-related referrals, even in cases of rape or medical emergency.
Translation: if a woman requires emergency medical care, a hospital can legally turn her away, and state and local governments can't do anything about it.
posted by Morgaine @ 10:52 PM
1 Comments:
Thanks very much for posting this, Morgaine.
The full article is available at: http://www.bopnews.com/archives/001617.html.
A number of other bloggers have been sharing their research and we're constantly updating the thread.
I have three favors to ask the What She Said! crew:
1. Please publicize this on your blogs. No one seems to know what is going on. Finding information has been very difficult.
2. Please call your elected officials and raise hell about this. Not a single Democrat voted against the bill containing the amendment in Congress; it looks set to pass very quietly.
3. If you find any new information, please email me, or come and share your info on BOP. The trolls are also, as expected, coming out on this on. I'm rapidly growing exhausted and could use some reinforcements. Please consider yourselfs all formally and cordially invited to join the comments: http://www.bopnews.com/archives/001617.html.
Thank you, greatly--and thanks always to Morgaine and her helpers for giving us this great tool and access to such a wonderful community.
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