In Opposition to the Stupak/Pitts Anti-Abortion Amendment

Congresswoman Barbara Lee speaks on the House Floor in opposition to the Stupak/Pitts anti-abortion amendment to H.R. 3962.

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• Barbara Lee
• Health Care
• Abortion
• Stupak
• Pitts
• Stupak Amendment
• Stupak-Pitts Amendment
• Anti-Choice
• Anti-Abortion
• Health Care Reform

[elanarab]

That comment makes it clear that either you really do not remember those dark days or you do not understand the horrifying results that those days created. Foolish, cold, and ignorant comparison.

[Piscivorus]

Unborn babies aren't sacred creatures, they're human beings like the rest of us. They're just as obligated to obtain their mother's consent as their fathers were before them. Without that consent, an unwanted pregnancy is a violation of a woman's person, same as rape, and access to abortion is as much a right as police protection. To deny women this is to leave them defenseless- essentially reproductive slaves. The law must apply equally to everyone or it's unconstitutional, simple as that.

[mykole84]

@Piscivorus. no one forced the baby in her. it one thing if the baby is from rape or incest or if health corcerns are an issue but women should not be able to have convienent abortion. i mean women choices is killing marriages. a wife can say im aborting this baby and the husband cant do nothing to stop it. its not fair. the father should be able to save the life b/c if he dont want but she have it he gotta pay child support. (which is his duty). we must be fair.

[Syntheticxox]

I hate debates about abortions. Scientifically if it cannot breath outside the womb it isn't a child. It's still a child at conception scream people at the other end. Who cares it's the woman's right to choose. When abortion was illegal women died because of illegal abortions, end of story. I don't agree with third trimester abortions unless they are due to medical reasons but I still think a woman has the right to choose. Seriously people are we this primitive to still fight this?

[polarice827]

As a pro-choice advocate I must say to all..How pro-choice is it if we force all Americans to fund abortions despite moral objections? What hypocrisy!!!

We can't have it both ways! The Democrats are lying in order to gain votes to push thru the unpopular Health Care Reform. And that's all there is to it. Don't buy it. Read the actual Stupak-Pitts amendment & don't rely on these ridiculous videos that threaten us with the dreaded "coathanger". Puh Leeze! Its old & so boring.

[polarice827]

What an outrageous LIE! Stupak Amendment does NOTHING to overturn Roe vs Wade. It only prevent tax dollars from funding abortions. PERIOD! It does NOT make it more difficult to obtain safe abortions. As a pro-choice advocate I am appalled at the propaganda used to sway beliefs that we will be forced to revert to "back alley" abortions or worse the "coathanger". This is a fucking lie!

Stupak was introduced within the Public Option of Health Care Reform prohibiting tax dollars to fund abortions.

[Piscivorus]

@Nightrunner529

...spoken like a real pro-lifer.

[Nightrunner529]

Wish Lee's mother would have aborted her

[Mrfranxs]

People of America lost faith in their law makers already. Revolution is in order.

[bobbybrady8]

Check it out. It opened my eyes. MAAFA21

[TheAfroQween]

Then perhaps YOU should have said DOCUMENTARY vs MOVIE- b 4 I take a 'suggestion' from another POSSIBLE CRACK POT and go blindly searching for a 'movie' someone suggests for me to watch DOESN'T MAKE ME A WEAK Black woman- it makes me SMART-

Strong BLACK MEN are SPECIFIC and give FULL DESCRIPTIONS of what the devil they want to SUGGEST- and not expect a Strong Black woman to READ THEIR MIND-