Boxer: Senate has votes to block Stupak amendment
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One of Congress's foremost champions of abortion rights said on Monday that the Senate did not have the votes to add a more restrictive anti-abortion amendment to health care reform legislation.Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said that 60 votes would be needed to strip the current health care bill of its abortion-related language and replace it with a version resembling that passed by the House of Representatives on Saturday. And, in an interview with the Huffington Post, the California Democrat predicted that pro-choice forces in the Senate would keep that from happening.
"If someone wants to offer this very radical amendment, which would really tear apart [a decades-long] compromise, then I think at that point they would need to have 60 votes to do it," Boxer said. "And I believe in our Senate we can hold it."
"It is a much more pro-choice Senate than it has been in a long time," she added. "And it is much more pro-choice than the House."
Boxer's reading of the political landscape might seem like the hopeful spin of an abortion-rights defender. But it was seconded by a another lawmaker, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.)
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- current89
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good_stuff
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Does the senate's healthcare cover abortions. Since it i sreally good, I have no doubt it does and we are therefore already paying tax dollars for abortions.
Somebody needs to do this research.
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good_stuff
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samthesixth
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Current,
So, given that your party passed a bill that they had not read and that did not respect a woman's right, you now turn to Collins and Snowe for help? Perhaps you are starting to see that there is no difference between the two parties, despite how much we may believe in one or the other.
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samthesixth
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current89
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Senator Boxer is absolutely right, in no way will a Stupak-like amendment be passed in the Senate. Unlike in the house, there are pro-choice GOP politicians, such as Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine.
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current89
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timetide
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We as a nation can never agian put our females in a position where they have to use coat hangers again
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timetide
