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The Sneaky, Unexpected Ways Anti-Choice Right-Wingers Are Chipping Away at Women's Rights

Jessica Arons, Alexandra Cawthorne, RH Reality Check. June 14, 2010.

Since Roe v. Wade passed, anti-choice groups have been waging a war on abortion rights. This year it's been even worse.

Dems Break GOP's Attempted Filibuster in the Senate, But Proposed Wall Street Reforms Are Pretty Flimsy

Zach Carter, AlterNet. April 29, 2010.

The good news: Democrats didn't sacrifice much to break the GOP filibuster. The bad news: the Wall Street reform bill is still too weak.

Abortion in the Senate Health-Care Bill: What the Nelson Compromise Will Cost Women

Jodi L. 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.

Health-Care Debate Gets Really Weird: Coburn Prays to Smite Enemies, Whitehouse Says GOP Hearts Aryans, Dean Dials It Back, and Everybody Hates Ben Nelson

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.

Health Care Reform Is Not Reform If It Denies Women Coverage

John Nichols, TheNation.com. December 19, 2009.

Sen. Harry Reid and the Senate Dems aren't winning any friends among the broad base of voters who support reproductive rights.

And They'll Call This Health-Care Reform: How Three Senators Are Extorting You For Their Big-Time Buddies

Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog. December 18, 2009.

Harry Reid will do anything to get sixty votes -- which means Lieberman, Nelson, and Snowe can use extortion on behalf of Big Insurance, Big Pharma, the AMA, and abortion foes.

Will Someone Please Explain the Meaning of "War Bond" to Ben Nelson?

Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. December 9, 2009.

The Nebraska senator seems to think they're the equivalent of free money. They're not.

Nelson's Anti-Choice Amendment Defeated in Senate, 54-45: Rep. Diana DeGette Responds

AlterNet Staff, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. December 8, 2009.

The Senate tabled an amendment offered by Ben Nelson, D-Neb., that would have replicated the Stupak language.

Nelson's Stupak-like Amendment Expected to Fail

Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. December 7, 2009.

Nelson threatens to filibuster the bill if it's not included -- Harry Reid is going to owe some favors.

What to Make of Feingold's Nay on the Women's Health Care Amendment

Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. December 3, 2009.

Feingold votes against a successful amendment that provides women free mammograms and other preventive services.

Just When You Thought It Was Safe: 3 Potential Obstacles to Health-Care Reform

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. November 23, 2009.

Harry Reid may have gotten the Senate to move his health-care bill forward, but a handful of conservative Democrats could still keep the bill from getting a final vote.

Senate Dems Caving Already on Health Care

Charles Chamberlain, Daily Kos AlterNet: Health and Wellness. May 7, 2009.

Why are Senate Democrats already caving on health care before the fights begins?