seafan (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-07-09 03:52 PM
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Once again, women's bodies are at the battlefront of wannabe Taliban occupying our government.
Also, where is contraception in these health care bills?, October 31, 2009
Today, the battle rages over the Stupak Amendment, November 7, 2009
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The decision could be that insurance companies who offer plans covering abortion on the exchange would be allowed to turn down customers using affordability tax credits. This would create a dangerous loophole for the new guaranteed issue rule. This could lead to the ghettoizing of the health insurance exchange. Insurers would know that offering plans that cover abortion would prevent low income Americans from being able to sign up. Low income Americans tend to have higher medical costs and are less profitable, less desirable customers. Offering abortion coverage would be a simple way for an insurance company to keep them out of their risk pool. Since the exchange has dangerously weak risk adjustment mechanisms, this Stupak Amendment could become a profitable tool used by insurers to discriminate against low income Americans.
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Nice that Bart Stupak, a member of The Family cult that hangs out in the House on C Street is pushing amendments to discriminate against more than 50% of the population of the U. S.
Uh, Mr. Stupak?
Women are NOT a special interest group. Just yesterday, a brave policewoman named Kim Munley stopped a mass murderer at the largest U. S. military base in the world.
How can these men pushing these regressive policies face themselves in the mirror every morning?
Warpy (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-07-09 03:55 PM
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2. How can they face themselves?
By not considering the female half of the population to be fully human, that's how. To them, we're just mindless cattle to be bred at will.
Such is the mindset of patriarchy, especially religious patriarchy.
The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-07-09 04:03 PMNo loser it is your body and choice until an innocent life is the third party.
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3. I just wish more would really believe 'My body, My choice'
Sad that fundies on the right and left toss that simple ideal out so often.
Warpy (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-07-09 03:55 PM
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2. How can they face themselves?
By not considering the female half of the population to be fully human, that's how. To them, we're just mindless cattle to be bred at will.
Such is the mindset of patriarchy, especially religious patriarchy.
To them, we're just mindless cattle to be bred at will.Let's see a show of hands! Who wants to breed DUmmy Warpy?
Let's see a show of hands! Who wants to breed DUmmy Warpy?
With what ?
Notice they have the same mentality toward women as minorities, they MUST have liberal views to be real women....
(http://i1019.photobucket.com/albums/af314/usanevada/healthcare2/hs1.jpg)
THAT is a real woman!! 5X5
The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-07-09 04:03 PM
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3. I just wish more would really believe 'My body, My choice'
I don't understand why so many pro-choice women are so anti-proactive-birth-control.... :confused:
Every man and woman who choses to should be able to abort their natural looks and be able to look just like Nancy "Chemical Peel" Losi. Demand Universal Cosmetic Care today!! Your body - Your choice!!!!
It is unfair that only The Evil Rich can afford to look like an alien from Uranus.