Comments on: Who Has Signed On To DeGette Letter To Block The Stupak Amendment?

By: rjrnab

rjrnab — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:19:01 +0000

I signed, and even CC’d Sen. D. Stabenow, so there Dr. Fernandez, thanks
for speaking Sunday, again.

By: KarenM

KarenM — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:54:58 +0000

The polls don’t mean much to those who have only cell phones and no land lines.

I’m weelllll over 30, and I already fit that description.

By: KarenM

KarenM — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:53:37 +0000

I agree with you on both points.

Also, too many drugs are prescribed for purposes for which they were not intended. Like neurontin (sp?) an epilepsy drug, which is often prescribed for all kinds of pain. The side effects are not pretty.

By: upstateNYerMdwst

upstateNYerMdwst — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:29:49 +0000

Yes, thank you for saying what’s been on my mind for years. I think it’s just insane that we allow Big Pharma to flush money down the drain on tv ads, when instead, if that money was simply not spent, it could now be used to offset so much of the R&D and administrative costs required to bring those drugs to the market, while keeping their profit margins identical to what they had before (gotta keep those greedy shareholders happy, unfortunately). But the net result would be LOWER costs for we the consumers! Instead of giving all that money to TV stations/media, they’d be using it to bring down costs for their consumers. This is a moral issue.

Sadly, a loophole in the law (I believe it’s contained within the 14th Amendment) allows corporations to have all the same rights as individual people (corporate personhood), including the rights listed under the 1st Amendment, which they always use when they sue the feds against any new law restricting their barbaric practices :(.

Aside from a Constitutional amendment, I don’t know how we’re going to be able to REALLY clamp down on all corporations and strip them of this “personhood” nonsense. It makes me so angry just thinking about it >:( . Corporations are just evil, as far as I’m concerned.

By: bmull

bmull — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:25:10 +0000

I believe the correct pro-choice position should be that any anti-choice language in the bill should be subject to annual renewal by Congress. That’s the way it is with the Hyde amendment. Incorporating the Hyde language into health care reform and making it permanent is a change from the status quo and should also prompt a NO vote.

By: SouthernDragon

SouthernDragon — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:09:34 +0000

There are probably gonna be worst weeks before it’s all over. The reich wing has had control of the media for so long it’s all they know. Matthews et al are entertainers who get paid to get people on their show who will stir up the Rethug base. They’re not there to inform people who use their head for something other than a place to put their hat. They’re there to entertain idiots. That’s why they hate KO and Rachel.

By: OldFatGuy

OldFatGuy — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:04:34 +0000

It’s just been a bad week man. And did you see my other post above that one? The right wing seems to be able to run the military even when they’re not in power. I mean those statements are EXACTLY what the right wing talking points have been about. Now they can say, “See!!! We told you the Fort Hood shootings were because of political correctness!! Now his own co-workers even admit it!”

I mean sometimes it feels like we’re trying move a mountain with a garden shovel. They control the press, the military, the agenda, and the entire government it seems even when it’s Democrats. It is just beyond frustrating. And I guess I’m getting tired.

By: cinnamonape

cinnamonape — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:59:16 +0000

Yes…a year and a half ago…and of course Obama is the cause of this!

By: SouthernDragon

SouthernDragon — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:56:04 +0000

No poll gets to the demographic that is paying attention more than ever before, those under 30, and is voting in record numbers. Next week they could go in the other direction. Don’t let polls be a barometer for activism.

By: sagebonnie

sagebonnie — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:44:50 +0000

The people that support the Stupak amendment have been given the right to choose their beliefs and religion and practice them openly but they DO NOT have the right to impose their religious or moral views on others by making their views law. I would cite the separation of church and state here. My medical and reproductive health is none of their business and how dare they try to eliminate my and all other womens right to choose how to care for our bodies. This is a blatant attempt to subjigate women by controlling their reproductive choices. We have this religious movement that wants to take away our choices for birth control or even our right to practice it and to instill in everyone their religious belief that human sexuality exists only for the purpose of procreation and is therefore subject to their religious interpretation of morality and marriage.
Again, they have the right to feel or believe whatever they choose but they DO NOT have the right to make it a LAW for everyone.
Lastly, until a man carries and gives birth to a child, I do not believe any man deserves a vote on my choices to get pregnant, not get pregnant or have a child.