++Union Station and the Metro were crowded with platoons of "right-to-lifers" sent from Catholic Colleges. The House Republicans balked at their 20-week pain-free fetus bill because Republican women thought it went too far.
++Remember how every GOP candidate for the mid-terms promised to protect contraceptives and the woman's right to choose? Abortion was kept off screen. But they came roaring back in the House and probably something similar will be passed in the Senate.
++The new House bill outlaws government-paid abortions. Nothing new here. Since the days of Henry Hyde, there has been a law against federally funded abortions. But this one is more insidious. It puts a tax on insurance companies who have policies that pay for abortions. I would love to litigate that one.
++The House bill does lip service to the issue of rape and the mother's welfare.
++Isn't it amazing that this is still an issue 42 years later. By now Roe v. Wade is so eviscerated that one wonders what is left.
++The Senate bills posted by Senator Vitter brings back the old canard about abortion clinics getting admitting privileges to hospitals and having to modernize to provide for gurneys through the halls. This was the Cooch's plan here in Virginia and it has resurfaced in the Virginia legislature again.
++ I am really surprised that the House Republicans haven't gone after contraceptives yet.
++Nancy Pelosi got in a nice line--"She knows more about having children than the Pope."
++Rick Santorum has expressed puzzlement over the Pope's statement that Catholics shouldn't breed like rabbits. I express wonderment too especially since he upheld the Catholic position against contraceptives.
++The House also wants to defund all family planning programs through USAID. This has been a decades long crusade for Chris Smith of New Jersey.
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