Can a Truly Pro-Choice President Support the Nelson Amendment?
February 24th, 2010 On February 23rd the President released his health care proposal and IT INCLUDES THE NELSON AMENDMENT! Tomorrow he will hold a meeting with Democrats and Republicans to create a health care plan. This is NOT the Pro-Choice President we were promised in November 2008! The stark reality is that the President’s bill which is modeled after the Senate bill, as it now stands, will result in greater restrictions to access to abortion than any federal law. By adopting the Nelson Amendment, the President has basically incorporated the Stupak Amendment! The President’s bill, if adopted as it is now written, is a betrayal of all women, and specifically targets middle income and lower income women, and students. Say NO! Click here to send a post card to President Obama, your senators, and your House delegates telling them No to the Nelson and Stupak Amendments. The President’s Proposal=the Nelson Amendment=the Stupak Amendment If signed into law, abortion coverage that women ca
