Representative Bart Stupak, formerly an obscure Member of Congress who rose to notoriety when he introduced the anti-choice Stupak Amendment to health reform, is being challenged in the Democratic primary in Michigan. From TPM: Conn...

Should health insurance reform allow direct government subsidies for abortion? Yes, it should. Should we drop the Hyde Amendment, the law that has, since 1976, barred spending of government money for abortions under Medicaid except ...

It was only a few days ago that Bart Stupak, of Stupak Amendment fame, told Good Morning America that while he was in favor of health-care reform, he and eleven other Democratic congressmen were prepared to vote against the bil...

Via the Weekly Standard, Illinois Dem Dan Lipinski says it's not gonna happen: Asked if the congressman is "open to voting for a health care bill that lacks the Stupak amendment," Lipinski's spokesman Nathaniel Zimmer replied in an ...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A spokesman for the nation's Catholic bishops, who were instrumental in getting the Stupak amendment to ban abortion funding in the House health care bill, said they would work to get a sidebar bill ...

Slate’s health care reform guru Tim Noah takes an interesting look at Bart Stupak’s opposition to the Senate health care bill on the grounds that (Stupak claims) it funds abortion. Noah drills down and suspects that, among other is...

You could just see this one coming today: faced with a difficult vote count without a bloc of anti-choice Democrats on board, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer expressed an openness to a standalone vote, essentially a third bill, on...

By Kathleen GilbertWASHINGTON, DC, March 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - At the same time as President Obama has stepped up the pressure on Congress to "get it done" on health care reform, Rep. Bart Stupak, the author of the amendment ...

MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews allowed Rep. Bart Stupak (D-PA) to again falsely claim that his health care bill amendment would "maintain current law," even though many people have told Matthews on Hardball that it goes beyon...

The most tedious man on the planet speaks: The Senate’s healthcare bill would lose 12 Democratic votes in the House, Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) said Wednesday. Stupak, the sponsor of an amendment to the House healthcare bill tha...

The following summarizes selected women's health-related videos. Media Matters Refutes Fox News: Media Matters for America on Wednesday posted a fact check contesting claims on Fox News' "Special Report" that President Obama's heal...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- As the next chapter of the debate over the pro-abortion health care bill begins, pro-abortion House Democrats are renewing their pledge not to support any bill with the Stupak amendment. That's the a...

One point that didn't get emphasized as much as I would have preferred in the Time.com piece on abortion and health reform: It's far from clear that most of the pro-life Democrats who voted for the Stupak amendment last fall will be...

The President's proposal has, by virtue of not altering the Senate language on abortion coverage, opted for Ben Nelson's formulation rather than Bart Stupak's stricter standard. The Stupak amendment, you'll remember, was deemed nece...

As Digby noted, Bart Stupak continuing to highjack the health care bill by insisting that it contains language allowing for the federal funding of abortions (which is an out right lie as Rachel and Jan Schakowsky discussed in the c...

For the anti-choice groups, it's Stupak Coathanger amendment or nothing. The new White House health care bill doesn't change the more lenient Senate-passed abortion provisions, and now the pro-life group known as Susan B. Anthony'...

Affordable, quality health care for all Americans sounds like a brilliant idea. However, the language of the Stupak amendment cuts a woman's access to affordable, comprehensive medical coverage, including reproductive health service...

On Saturday night the House of Representatives narrowly passed a health-care reform bill, changing the way Americans will access health insurance. Included in the bill was an amendment from Bart Stupak (D-MI), which "prohibits fed...

Boston College Law dean John Garvey, in an op-ed that also elegantly makes the jurisprudential case for the Stupak amendment, contextualizes Brown's support for religious exemptions from the distribution of emergency contraception, ...

On Friday, during a town hall in Houghton, Michigan Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) refused to commit to voting against a health care bill that did not include the House bill’s abortion language. “I will work with Democratic leadership, hop...