My first Newsweek story: Senate May Thwart Stupak

By Lindsay Beyerstein

My first Newsweek story, on the Stupak Amendment, the senate bill, and what's next in the fight over abortion access under health reform.

National abortion-rights advocacy groups were outraged when the House passed the Stupak amendment to the health-care bill. The amendment—named for its sponsor, Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak—would bar patients who receive government affordability credits from buying health insurance that covers elective abortions, even if they pay for the abortion component with their own money. It seemed as if the reproductive-rights establishment had been blindsided by Speaker Nancy Pelosi's last-minute deal to placate the conservative Democrats in Congress and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). The reality is much more complicated. [...]

Comments

[Point]

Not bad... So if you take out the pro-choice members who voted for the Stupak amendment, you lose the bill? And a lot of that was members who weren't clear on what "Stupak" was?

Is there any real concern, then, that this section could survive reconciliation?

[MikeF]

Interesting article. There is a repeated bit on Page 3 that you might want to fix (second/third to last paragraphs are almost identical but for some formatting).

[CaseyL]

Congrats, Lindsay!

May this be one of many, and may the next one be reporting something good.

[publius]

Congrats -- that's awesome.

[Eric Martin]

Good on you Lindsay!

[Jesurgislac]

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[wonkie]

Congratulations, Lindsay!

[Bruce Amiata]

Dudette! Congratulations!

[Anthony Damiani]

Congrats on the Newsweek article!

[Doctor Science]

Yes! *punches air*

[Uncle Kvetch]

And to think I read her way back when... [sniff]