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DNC Responds To Boehner 'Monthly Abortion Premium' Claim, Would Like To Believe He Won't Say It Again...
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH)
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The Democratic National Committee released a rapid response to House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH), who claimed that the Senate Democratic health care bill would result in Americans paying a "monthly abortion premium."
The response cites various media outlets that have fact-checked and/or debunked the claim that the Democratic bill would pay for abortions: "With such clear evidence to the contrary, we'd like to believe that this is the last time we'll hear this scare-tactic from Boehner and the Party of NO... but since all Republicans have to offer are more lies, we're not counting on it."
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Powkat
November 19, 2009 4:54 PM
And they have to keep saying it and they have to mention this kind of extremist rhetoric every time they have a forum. Per Ron Perlstein, they have to position themselves as the reasonable center and the Republicans as the lunatic fringe.
Well, they ARE the lunatic fringe, but it bears repeating.
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steviek2000
November 19, 2009 9:05 PM
I don't like that the government is saying that every state must have at least one plan on the exchange that offers abortion. I'm pro-choice but I don't like abortion being forced on people in any way or the government helping abortion in any way.
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Skybolt
November 20, 2009 8:43 AM in reply to steviek2000
You are not pro-choice. If you were pro-choice, you would want the government to do everything possible to ensure that every woman in America has access to abortion. Abortion is a common, mainstream medical procedure and woman-hating is the only reason to exclude it from insurance coverage. Pro-choice-as-long-as-no-one-is-upset is not pro-choice.
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