Posted by
Defend America on Saturday, December 19, 2009 3:25:32 PM
NOW President Condemns Compromised Health Care Bill;
Women's Access to Abortion Care Traded Away
Statement of Terry O'Neill, NOW President
December 19, 2009
The so-called health care reform bill now before the Senate, with
the addition of Majority Leader Harry Reid's Manager's Amendment,
amounts to a health insurance bill for half the population and a
sweeping anti-abortion law for the rest of us. And by the way, it's the
rest of us who voted the current leadership into both houses of
Congress.
The National Organization for Women is outraged that Senate
leadership would cave in to Sen. Ben Nelson, offering a compromise that
amounts to a Stupak-like ban on insurance coverage for abortion care.
Right-wing ideologues like Nelson and the Catholic Bishops may not
understand this,
but abortion is health care. And health care reform is not true reform
if it denies women coverage for the full range of reproductive health
services.
We call on all senators who consider themselves friends of women's
rights to reject the Manager's Amendment, and if it remains, to defeat
this
cruelly over-compromised legislation.
http://www.now.org/press/12-09/12-19.html