Bart Stupak

We don’t know Stupak

Sheila Liaugminas | 27 March 2010

Days after the Senate version of the health care bill was ceremoniously and victoriously signed into law, media people are still writing about the man who made it happen. Besides President Obama…

The Stupak-Obama deal

Sheila Liaugminas | 25 March 2010

At the end of the day, it seemed vote-a-rama was the big political story. But then this came out… "Both sides in the abortion debate came to a rare agreement on Wednesday: The executive order on abortion signed by President Obama, they said, was basically meaningless."

Headed for socialised health care?

Sheila Liaugminas | 23 March 2010

Even avoiding the usual sources of polemics in the political debate over the Democrats’ health care legislation, one continually encounters dramatic predictions of its consequences. Like this U.S. News & World Report piece proclaiming the U.S. is headed toward socialised medicine.

The day after

Sheila Liaugminas | 22 March 2010

Sunday night, Congress ended a dramatically long and intense weekend of backroom wrangling and avoiding the thousands of citizens who descended on Washington to protest the health bill and the majority of Americans who opposed it. So the deal got done, and some news analysts began saying immediately afterward that life in America has just begun to change.

Surprise, surprise

Sheila Liaugminas | 22 March 2010

Bart Stupak caved, after all. His press conference was brief and sounded like it was hastily put together.

Wink and nod politics

Sheila Liaugminas | 22 March 2010

No matter how things turn out in the fast-moving dealmaking on Capitol Hill to get the Senate health bill passed by the House, this AP story is just some strange reporting.

Abortion genocide: Don’t do it

Sheila Liaugminas | 11 March 2010

Suddenly, it seems, abortion is getting some serious, major and long overdue attention. And it’s coming along different fronts, namely...health care holdup, gendercide, black genocide....

Healthcare reform turns on abortion

Sheila Liaugminas | 05 March 2010

We do have some principled leadership in Congress, after all. Especially the Democrat who refuses to buckle under massive pressure from the White House, Senate and House powerbrokers and most of the big media opinionmakers: Bart Stupak. He’s sending them all into a tailspin.