It's getting annoying, the way you can't send a letter to an elected official these days unless you agree to contribute to something. So...Here's my letter to President Obama. I'd send it through the Planned Parenthood site, but they have not made it possible. YEt. Here's my letter:
Dear Mr. President:
You campaigned on a promise to put reproductive health care at the center of your health care reform plan. Now it's time for you to make good on that commitment.
I am one of many who are outraged that the House of Representatives passed a bill that would make women worse off under health care reform than they are today. I am asking you to ensure that lawmakers, especially those in your party, support health care reform that protects women's access to reproductive care as the next round of debate and voting occurs in the Senate.
President Obama, without access to abortion care, and to comprehensive reproductive health care, there is no choice. I will not stand for that, and I need to know that you won't either.
Also, Mr. President, we can read. Specifically, we have read Taylor Marsh's column in HP today, which reads, in part: "It was Pres. Obama who opened the door to sell us out when he decided to put the Hyde Amendment in the budget, something Bill Clinton never did. But Mr. Obama didn't stop there. During the stimulus fight, at the first sign of displeasure, our president personally asked that contraceptives be taken out. Now the president seems ready to finish the job, with Democrats in the House helping him do it."
(Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/taylor-marsh/in-pelosis-house-64-democ_b_349769.html&cp).
You are not going to WIN anything if you do it on the backs of women!!
Thank you,
Xtreme English
Hello there,
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to understand this whole issue. I've read some other blogs mentioning this bill and what I got out of them was that the only issue is with the state funding the abortions. Nobody is told they can't have them done, only the state will not participate in the fundings.
Also, isn't there a federal law that forbids the state to fund this (expect for specific cases)?
I am not trying to be rude or insensitive.. just trying to understand. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Ella
Hi, Ella...thanks for stopping by. The Stupak amendment isn't that innocuous--if you can call denying "state" funding for abortion despite its constitutionality innocuous.
ReplyDeleteHere's what it proposes:
*Prevent women receiving tax subsidies from using their own money to purchase
private insurance that covers abortion;
*Prevent women participating in the public health insurance exchange,
administered by private insurance companies, from using 100 percent of
their own money to purchase private insurance that covers abortion;
*Prevent low-income women from accessing abortion entirely, in many cases.
It's horrible, and it comes from another resident (Stupak) of the infamous "Christian" group house on C Street in Capitol Hill, home of a number of thrifty yet notedly adulturous members of Congress who can live there while Congress is in session to avoid having to move their families here at great expense. Problem is, they don't behave themselves despite holding prayer sessions frequently if not daily and congratulating themselves on doing the Lord's work, etc.
I don't understand this either. I just end up feeling "pox on all their houses." Except maybe the house of the Obamas. We are blessed with that family!
ReplyDeleteBut we deserve so much better than the government we got. When it comes to the congress, the wrong people are in power. As they used to say where I used to work: "the devil's in charge."
Cat
m.e., you focus on something that i believe has discomfitted obama supporters for several months. what's with the constant communication joined by a request for more bucks?
ReplyDeletedo you think if we started something by sending hard copy notes to the white house like this: Please stop asking for more bucks for your next election...Start smart programs for the unemployed.
would you deliver them as you are right there in d.c.? just a thought.
Nthe p.o. can do a far better job than i can of delivering hard copy notes. but here's a thought....we can make postcard templates with your message PLEASE STOP ASKING FOR MORE BUCKS FOR YOUR NEXT ELECTION...START SMART PROGRAMS FOR THE UNEMPLOYED!! people can print their own postcards and send them to whomever.
ReplyDeletei think you should contact Emily's List with that message, too. they are particularly egregious in asking for $$ to elect "pro-choice Democratic women." there are people around who are KEEPING TABS on this stuff. that info needs to go out, too....hmmm...maybe i could post it, or send it to darlene.
i'm just so fed up with all the crap. can't trust the repugs, can't trust the dems, who's left? ralph nader??DB: