Comments on: Political Diagnosis: The Week in Women’s Health http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2009/01/politically-speaking-the-week-in-womens-health Daily dose of women's health news and media analysis Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:46:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Kiki http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2009/01/politically-speaking-the-week-in-womens-health/comment-page-1#comment-944 Kiki Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:07:26 +0000 http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/?p=3698#comment-944 Re: the economic stimulus plan: Frances Kissling argues powerfully that Obama compromised way too quickly: "...at the very first opportunity to link women's reproductive health to social and economic justice -- the economic stimulus package -- the President denied the link when he picked up the phone and told Henry Waxman to take out the family planning provision." Read more at <a href="http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2009/01/28/the-new-administration-not-quite-ready-stand-up-women" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2009/01/28/the-new-administration-not-quite-ready-stand-up-women?referer=http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/wp-content/plugins/wp-ajax-edit-comments/php/comment-editor.php?action=editcomment&p=3698&c=944&KeepThis=true&');pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2009/01/28/the-new-administration-not-quite-ready-stand-up-women?referer=http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/wp-content/plugins/wp-ajax-edit-comments/php/comment-editor.php?action=editcomment&p=3698&c=944&KeepThis=true&');pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2009/01/28/the-new-administration-not-quite-ready-stand-up-women?referer=http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/wp-content/plugins/wp-ajax-edit-comments/php/comment-editor.php?action=editcomment&p=3698&c=944&KeepThis=true&');" rel="nofollow"> RhReality's blog</a rel="nofollow" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2009/01/28/the-new-administration-not-quite-ready-stand-up-women?referer=http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/wp-content/plugins/wp-ajax-edit-comments/php/comment-editor.php?action=editcomment&p=3698&c=944&KeepThis=true&');">. Re: the economic stimulus plan: Frances Kissling argues powerfully that Obama compromised way too quickly: “…at the very first opportunity to link women’s reproductive health to social and economic justice — the economic stimulus package — the President denied the link when he picked up the phone and told Henry Waxman to take out the family planning provision.”

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]]> By: Rachel http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2009/01/politically-speaking-the-week-in-womens-health/comment-page-1#comment-942 Rachel Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:08:10 +0000 http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/?p=3698#comment-942 Thanks for finding that Pollitt piece - it inspired me to go look at what other healthcare expenditures are in the stimulus bill. In the context of what else is there, contraception definitely could/should have stayed in. Thanks for finding that Pollitt piece – it inspired me to go look at what other healthcare expenditures are in the stimulus bill. In the context of what else is there, contraception definitely could/should have stayed in.

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