6,000 face loss of prenatal care (where is the outrage of pro-lifers?)

[Omaha Steve]

Today 5,000 pro lifers marched in Lincoln (state capital) to protest abortion etc. Why are they not pounding the doors of the legislature for a tax increase to help provide for these unborn children?

My fever is up, I'll be back in a few days.

OS

http://www.omaha.com/article/20100130/NEWS01/701309889

Published Saturday January 30, 2010
6,000 face loss of prenatal care

By Cindy Gonzalez and Martha Stoddard
WORLD-HERALD BUREAU

LINCOLN — Eulalia Raymundo started her prenatal care with a smile and an ultrasound showing the first signs of a baby girl she would call Selina.

Her joy has turned to worry as she learned she is among more than 6,000 pregnant women in Nebraska who suddenly might be without prenatal medical coverage as a result of a change in the state's Medicaid system.

Like Raymundo, a Guatemala native having her fifth child, about 1,000 are undocumented immigrants.

But an additional 5,000 poor, pregnant women who were born in this country or who are legal residents also are caught up in a revision of state policy that has many health care and immigrant advocates outraged.

The revision has some state lawmakers questioning why Gov. Dave Heineman and top Medicaid officials did not propose any answers or seek legislative action.

“Either the governor is not in fact concerned about it, or he has passed the buck to the Legislature,” said State Sen. Danielle Conrad of Lincoln.

FULL story at link.


5,000 Abortion protesters rally: http://www.omaha.com/article/20100130/NEWS01/100139988/1014/AP

By LESLIE REED
World-Herald Bureau

LINCOLN -- Abortion opponents turned out today for their annual protest of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 ruling that legalized abortion.

Police and organizers agreed that about 5,000 turned out for the "Walk for Life'' march, which started at the State Capitol and ended at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Julie Schmit-Albin, executive director of Nebraska Right to Life, said abortion opponents are fired up by recent political events, including the election of President Barack Obama, who supports abortion rights, and the health care vote cast by U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb.

Nelson opposes abortion, but activists are upset with his vote for the Senate bill. They say the language on abortion and insurance coverage in that bill is not as strong as in the House version of the measure.

The biggest cheers during a rally outside the State Capitol came when Attorney General Jon Bruning said he believes proposed state legislation to ban abortion when the fetus can feel pain is constitutional.

FULL story at link.

[KingFlorez]

1. That costs too much money and is socialist

They don't care about issues like this, not when it cost money.

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[bigwillq]

3. Hello.

Welcome to DU! :hi:

Why would you feel guilty? :shrug: It's their body, their choice. I am pro-choice because I feel everyone should have a choice as to what they do with their bodies. But I don't feel guilty when someone has an abortion. That's their choice, decision and right.

[ck4829]

4. I think it's just you

I don't think most of us are more inclined to let the government declare the reproductive organs of women to be property of the government just because we get older.

[Onceuponalife]

5. Did you make a wrong turn somewhere?

You just signed up today? And decided to bleat about the "unborn"? Abortion is a perfectly legal medical procedure. "Unborn" is not a term you will find anywhere in the medical literature. It is a political term not a medical one. You are not pro-life, I suspect. Do you support the death penalty? Then you are not pro-life. What the hell gives you the right to pass judgment on women and try to tell them what to do with their own bodies? Go away, freeptard.

[unabelladonna]

8. i love the term "unborn"

does that mean we're "undead"?

[musette_sf]

7. "nobody is speaking up for the unborn"

O RLY?

Conviction angers anti-abortion militants

http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/conviction-angers-anti-abortion-287241.html

The Rev. Donald Spitz, of Chesapeake, Va., who runs the Army of God Web site supporting violence against abortion providers, said the rejection of that argument has upset those who view Roeder as a hero.

"I know there is not a lot of good feeling out there — everybody is pretty angry," he said.

Spitz was the spiritual adviser to Paul Hill and was with him at his 2003 execution for the killing of a Florida abortion provider and a clinic escort in 1994, an event that led to a lull in violence at abortion clinics. While saying he knows nothing of impending plans by others against abortion doctors, Spitz scoffed at suggestions that Roeder's conviction willhave a similar effect.

"Times change," Spitz said. "People are not as passive as they have been. They are more assertive."

[unabelladonna]

6. they're not fetuses

once they're born the babies and mothers can go to hell or fend for themselves..... and this is why anti-choicers are evil.

[Quantess]

9. Slut mom didn't take personal responsibility, so it's her own fault.

Besides, Mary and Joseph didn't get prenatal care.

[midnight]

10. K&R. for privacy rights that would keep the religious out of doc. patient decisions.

[Better Today]

11. They are pro-fetus, not pro-life.

[Omaha Steve]

12. I am better today and will be posting after breakfast