Jodi Jacobson, RH Reality Check. December 22, 2009. To win his vote -- needed to bring the health-care bill to the Senate floor -- Sen. Ben Nelson got an anti-choice measure put into the bill. Here's the break-down.
Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. December 21, 2009. Keep 100 senators on a round-the-clock schedule and you get a deal that nobody likes, plus a lot of strange behavior. But it's a deal.
Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. November 19, 2009. At today's press conference on the Senate health-care bill, Harry Reid played close to the vest, while Tom Harkin seemed to promise cooperation from Joe Lieberman.
Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. November 18, 2009. On MSNBC's Hardball, Rep. Bart Stupak laid the blame for his anti-choice amendment on others. Now he seems to calling anti-choice senators "extreme."
Jill Filipovic, Feministe AlterNet: PEEK. November 10, 2009. Find out how your representative voted on and call their office, to thank them or to tell them that you'll be supporting a pro-choice democrat in the next primary.
Jessica Arons, The Wonk Room. November 9, 2009. The health-care bill passed by the House will expand access to health care. But millions of women are about to lose coverage they currently have and need.
Adele Stan, AlterNet: PEEK. November 7, 2009. The Stupak amendment -- an anti-choice measure that could virtually eliminate insurance coverage for abortion -- will be attached to the health-care reform bill.
RH Reality Check, RH Reality Check AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. November 7, 2009. The House leadership bows to anti-choice congressmen, allowing them a vote on an anti-choice amendment to the health-care bill.
Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. November 6, 2009. To keep House vote on track, Pelosi struggles to appease the Catholic church and The Family cult on abortion language.
mcjoan, Daily Kos AlterNet: PEEK. November 3, 2009. Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) claims he's recruited over 40 anti-choice Dems to sabotage the current bill.
Bruce Wilson, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. October 29, 2009. Blue Dogs were "magnificent" at killing health reform in 1990's, says Stupak's pro-life caucus co-chair.