Talking Women, Health Care and Civil Rights with Rosie O’Donnell
30 November 2009 10:00 am by Taylor Marsh
updated
Rosie read “In Pelosi’s House, 64 Democrats Sell Women Out” over at Huffington Post, enjoying it very much, which was the jumping off point for the interview with Rosie on health care.
As an aside, Wednesday, December 2nd, is going to be a lobby and national action day in D.C. on the issue of women’s civil rights. I’ll write more about that later today, but will talk in depth about it on Rosie’s show.
As for getting involved, start by emailing and calling your senators and representatives. Let them know that if they don’t support women’s civil rights, you won’t be supporting them.
From Center for Reproductive Rights:
Three key facts:
* A majority of private health insurance plans now provide coverage for abortion services.
* One in 3 women will have an abortion within her lifetime.
* Abortion is one of the most common surgical procedures.
Under the Stupak-Pitts abortion ban, which passed the House in the health reform bill, women would not be covered for abortions in the new health insurance market despite spending their own money to purchase coverage.
And women who opt into the more affordable public option would be banned from getting coverage for abortion services, even if their own money was used to buy insurance.
With Stupak-Pitts, it would be much harder—and perhaps impossible—for private insurance companies to offer abortion coverage for plans under health reform
The same politicians who oppose healthcare reform because it is “big government” now want to dictate the terms of women’s healthcare coverage.
Obviously, a very important subject for us all.
I don’t do radio interviews much anymore, having overdosed on them over the last 15 years. And even though I wish I could successfully land back on radio, podcasts remain an enjoyable part of my work, with interviews important to me.
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