Are you a woman and/or someone who loves a woman?

Stupak-Pitts will screwwww you!

(Well, probably.)

This is obviously something a lot of people are pissed about-- it's this huge step back for reproductive rights, it basically nullifies the House's health care bill's mandate against gender discrimination by insurers, etc. But I just came from PPNYC's legislative overview training and it's made me think a bigger problem might be understanding that this isn't just a problem for poor women. This is going to be a problem for MOST women. The reproductive health of any woman depending on any health care plan that receives one dollar

of federal funding or subsidy is going to be jeopardized by this. If this amendment were to pass, and I don't think it will because cooler heads are supposed to prevail in the Senate right, here are some women who would not get insurance coverage for abortion services:
-Any woman who gets health insurance in the exchange including:
-self-employed women
-women who work for small businesses
-unemployed women
-divorced/single women
-low-income women
-women who are satisfied with their current health care plan and would not purchase insurance in the exchange but whose insurer would cover JUST ONE SINGLE subsidized individual including:
-everyone
-you
-me
-any woman who gets insurance from her employer or her spouse's employer once said employer enters the exchange!

And we haven't even begun to consider the overwhelming number of federal employees using employer insurance denied comprehensive health care coverage here: public school teachers, post office clerks, the people who pick up our garbage, the people who drive our subway trains, law enforcement: it's not just stupid policy, it's bad politics. Stupak violates the very tenet of health care reform meant to appease its right wing opponents: if you're already happy with your health care, you can keep it.