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11/13/09
He made it illegal not to have insurance. He helped fund and produce the expansion of the current state healthcare for the disabled and unemployed/underemployed by creating Commonwealth Care, which allows people to apply for a low premium healthcare plan. So far, it has worked pretty well, and most of Massachusetts has reasonable healthcare coverage. It doesn't cover abortions. It is extremely popular.
Mitt Romney is a frontrunner in the Republican party for the presidency in 2012. Do you think he'll bring up his ability to oversee the successful and much-lauded expansion of health coverage in his state? I'm pretty sure he will.
What I'm trying to say is: wake the fuck up Dems. If you are fucking us the same way as the Republicans do, you are going to lose a portion of the vote. And while I would never vote for Romney, I know that plenty of moderate Democrats will--they did in Massachusetts when he ran for Governor in one of the most liberal states in America.
Not only do the Dems not seem to care that they are trampling on their core constituency, they are risking their own asses as well. Stupak is as stupak does. #abortion
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You know what I am fucking sick of? Politicians treating women's rights and women's health as pork. As non-essential. As a tiny bit of legislation.
How dare we risk messing up their bill because of the miniscule little issue of the right to control our own bodies? Why, if we keep fighting this, we'll be to blame for the deaths of every American not currently covered by national health care! Except, actually guys? That's blood on the governments hands for perverting their bill by relegating women to second-class citizenship. #abortion
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After all, what kind of selfish, shrewish harpy would object to healthcare reform that benefits so many men and children, just because it tears away a major benefit for themselves?
Women, put your country first, and your own selfish desire for safe, legal, affordable healthcare last! #abortion
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NAILED IT. #abortion
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I hope everyone doesn't stop writing letters, volunteering, giving money if they are able, showing up for marches, and making themselves heard.
How rich that the RNC provides its employees with abortion coverage. How utterly, utterly rich. #abortion
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I could not agree more. #abortion
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I don't need any proof other than that to be reminded that women will remain second-class, semi-citizens until our federal government does what it's fucking there to do and ends sexual discrimination, starting with health reform. Putting it up for debate and floating around committees filled with men perfectly happy to SHOUT DOWN their female colleagues when they open their mouths is asinine. #abortion
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[voices.washingtonpost.com]
So now we have to bank on the senate to beat down costs? Ugh. #abortion
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The less money you have, the more incompetent practitioners seem to be. When I was in college I was going to the health services that was operated by the health department on campus for my womanly checkups. I had an abnormal pap smear. Reading online, I found out that a yeast infection can throw them off (and it was documented that I had one when I came in and it was taken care off). They kept treating me like I was essentially a moral defunct person, giving me condoms and a lecture on safe sex. I end up having to go to a gynecologist for a colposcopy (cervical biopsy). The gynecologist found nothing, and no evidence of anything. Even in follow up tests...there was nothing.
Okay sorry for the rant. UGH! #abortion
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It was maternity care that almost broke me. I am both insured, employed, and by the current definition, firmly middle class. I unfortunately happen to be a woman. #abortion
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I know people who have had to do the 'Just pray really hard you don't get hurt or sick' because they can't afford health insurance. I know people who practice 'pull and pray' as birth control because they can't afford BC or simply don't want to use it or condoms. Does anyone seriously think people who don't have the foresight to use protection are going to get coverage? That people too ashamed to carry condoms will have the guts to get coverage? That people who get abortions – and the majority of women who get them already have one or more children – can afford extra coverage? No, no and no.
As usual, as always, as ever, people who will need this the most are going to be served by it the least.
And the 'fuck you' to women continues. Let's hope they're going to match this with archaic, bloodthirsty child support laws and bounty hunters, free birth control, amazing financial and emotional support for pregnant women and new mothers, subsidized day care and early education. Otherwise someone might accuse the government of being one-sided! #abortion
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[mypage.direct.ca] #abortion
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It seems like many of the women who chose to have an abortion really care about appearances. They want to still belong with the close-knit group (church, activist group, etc) after they've made their legal choice. Can we really blame someone for hiding their abortion if they do not want to lose the close friends, family members, etc. they've known their whole life?
Do many of them honestly believe that women should not have the right to choose? I certainly hope not. Or is this more of a blame the sin, not the sinner rhetoric?
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(And the "you" is not YOU, just you like all anti-choice hypocrites.)
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What the fucking fuck does that mean? "Oh, I didn't MEAN to strip away your rights ladies! My bad! I was just playing to the more conservative voters, 'cause I know you'll never leave me, because you have no choice! Haha!" #abortion
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The family isn't just evangelistic, it's more hell bent on world domination. Even Hillary Clinton had ties to the head of The Family and C Street House.
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ETA: [www.stumbleupon.com] just a post telling that it happened.
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