Healthcare-Now Nat'l Strategy Conf (3b of 6) Terry O'Neill

I intend to roll out a national action campaign for single-payer health care, said Terry ONeill, president of the National Organization for Women, speaking during the opening session of the 2009 Healthcare-Now.org National Strategy Conference Saturday afternoon in St. Louis.

Before she was finished as the third of six speakers at the two-day conference, the self-described feminist lawyer asked the approximately 100 attendees for help in the area of what she called womens reproductive health care needs (a.k.a., abortion).

We were not that happy with the House bill that we understood was going to be going to the floor in the first place, ONeill explained.

Moments later, she added, It was a weak bill. It did not have a strong enough public option. Then she got to her point of focus -- that is, shes upset about funding for abortions being removed from the recently-passed House health care bill.

We are determined to kill this health care legislation altogether, she said. If Stupak-Pitts, or anything like it, passes, we will insist that President Obama veto the bill and, if the bill passes the Senate or the House, we will target for defeat any legislator that votes for legislation (like Stupak-Pitts).

Read more about her liberal ideology at http://bobmccarty.com.

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