The Senate will vote this morning on SB 113, which would prohibit insurance exchanges set up by the federal health care reform law from offering coverage for abortions.
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Religion cramdown
The Family Council, which is bringing the faux historian religionist David Barton to town next week to indoctrinate legislators on cramming their religion down others’ throats, illustrates the specifics of its theocratic approach to government in its legislative package.
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Abortion: a rallying point some places
The New York Times reports that further loss of abortion rights is being used as a campaign tool by Democratic candidates in some populous states.
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Another tribute to Harrison
The New York Times today has a feature obituary on Dr. William F. Harrison, the abortion rights defender, who died Friday in Fayetteville.
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Dr. William Harrison dies at 75
Dr. William F. Harrison, the Fayetteville obstetrician and gynecologist, died this morning, friends report. He’d become a central figure in the debate over abortion rights.
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Extremist John Boozman
John Brummett today rises to the defense of Rep. John Boozman over Sen. Blanche Lincoln’s debate effort to cast him as an extremist on abortion for his vote on a Democratic effort to amend sweeping federal parental consent legislation.
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Abortion: not a women’s issue? So says Repub
Louisiana’s whore-hopping U.S. senator, David Vitter, was ambushed by the press again today on the girlfriend-slashing aide he kept on staff until his past was outed.
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Charlie Crist: Republican no more
I guess Florida Gov. Charlie Crist really is an independent now. As he positions himself to the center in the U.S. Senate race, Gov. Charlie Crist on Friday vetoed a measure requiring most women to pay for an ultrasound and hear a description of the fetus before they can have an abortion.
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Gov. Huckabee, a pro-lifer, signs SB 612 into law
Pro-lifers get a win; pro-choicers say they were compromised away.
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Huckabee sideshow much ado about nothing
Gov. Huckabee has wasted no time establishing his mastery of political theater; the jury is still out on whether he can govern. In less than a month, he managed a […]