Health-Care and more!
Published August 20, 2009 @ 02:27PM PT
So much of the the news lately has been on health-care reform. Since the right-wing is spreading so many misconceptions, distortions, and outright lies about abortion, here are some articles to clear things up:
NARAL Pro-Choice South Dakota's executive director corrects one mistake: there's no abortion mandate in the health-care bills.
http://www.argusleader.com/article/20090818/VOICES09/908180313/1057/COLUMNISTS
The San Francisco Chronicle corrects several misconceptions about the bill.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/16/MNT4198FQ4.DTL#ixzz0ORnJvDBa
Politifact debunks false claims on abortion and health care
http://www.politifact.org/truth-o-meter/article/2009/aug/07/abortion-and-health-care-reform-bill/
For more truths, check out www.ProChoiceAmerica.org/healthcare. We need your help to counter these lies - post the following link on your page, or email it to your family and friends: http://www.blogforchoice.com/archives/2009/08/the-truth-about.html
Although debunking the anti-choice myths surrounding health-care reform is taking up most of our time our top priority right now, there are still a lot of other issues to keep an eye on.
Newsweek recently profiled Dr. Leroy Carhart (http://www.newsweek.com/id/212017/page/1), an abortion provider who is trying to ensure that the work of the late Dr. George Tiller continues goes on. He too has faced threats of violence and intimidation his entire career, and next week, police in Omaha, where Dr. Carhart's clinic is located, are preparing for the anti-choice protesters that are expected to swarm his reproductive-health center (http://www.omaha.com/article/20090817/NEWS01/708179958/-1/FRONTPAGE). Kansas and Nebraska NOW are organizing a counter-protest; you can go to http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=140223851130&ref=mf for details.
Great news in Oklahoma, as judges strike down an anti-choice ultrasound law: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/18/AR2009081803323.html
But a similar law in South Dakota leads to worries that the only clinic in the state - a Planned Parenthood - might be forced to close: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/19/AR2009081902263.html
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