The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries. ~ "Manager's Amendment Restricts Abortion Coverage; The Final Bill Should Not," Micole Allekotte, National Women's Law Center's "Womenstake": The manager's amendment to the Senate health reform bill "is far worse regarding...
Although Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley (D) and state Sen. Scott Brown (R) -- who are vying for the state's U.S. Senate seat -- both say they support Roe v. Wade, abortion-rights groups are backing Coakley, while an antiabortion-rights group has sided with Brown, the Boston Globe...
The Hill: "Abortion-rights groups are holding a lobby day on Wednesday to fight language in the House healthcare bill that would impose greater restrictions on access to the controversial procedure. The amendment by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), adopted before House passage on Nov. 21, would...
The debate over abortion provisions included in health reform legislation has "galvanized the abortion-rights movement and forced its leaders to turn inward, raising questions about how to carry their agenda forward in the complex, 21st-century world," Times reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg writes...