Today: Wisconsin shenanigans, anti-choice shenanigans, health privatization shenanigans, and more covert warfare.
- The New GOP Restrictions on Medical Training for Abortion Providers Could Have Killed Me | RH Reality Check
- Republicans in the U.S. Congress have passed an amendment that would prevent medical students and residents from learning how to safely perform basic medical procedures used to perform abortions, address miscarriages, or treat women suffering from other gynecological problems…
We need our doctors to be trained to perform the full range of medical procedures. They need to know how to remove the contents of a woman’s uterus just as much as they need to know how to remove a bullet from a gunshot victim or a tumor from someone’s brain.
- Poll: Public tired of abortion debate – Kate Nocera – POLITICO.com
- Americans are growing tired of the abortion debate and want to move on to a broader discussion about reproductive health, a new survey by a Democratic polling firm finds.
The poll, conducted by Lake Partners, found that Americans feel Congress has focused too much on abortion and not enough on things like preventive care, reproductive health and expanding access to birth control.
- Wis. Elections Board Certifies Recalls Against Three Dems — After Long Debate About Republican Election Fraud | TPMDC
- Most notoriously, the Dems found the purported signature of a man who had been dead for 20 years, but whose name was still in the phonebook (by peculiar circumstance, he was the father of a very liberal current Democratic state representative). In addition, they found a married couple for whom the signatures were clearly written in the same hand — but both people have signed affidavits that neither of them actually did sign.
- Lawmakers Subpoena Jindal Over Health Care Agency Report | TPMMuckraker
- …gave the Jindal administration 24 hours to turn over a report it commissioned on the agency that manages state employees health insurance.
- Pre-Resignation, Louisiana Official Gave Trainwreck Testimony On Health Care Privatization (VIDEO) | TPMMuckraker
- At a hearing on June 1, some members of the State Senate’s Senate
- No bombs, no boots, no jets… We kill in Yemen with a cigarette? – Albany Political Buzz | Examiner.com
- …Obama administration intensifies covert U.S. war in Yemen, according to a senior Pentagon official, unauthorized to discuss the matter, thus speaking only on condition of anonymity.
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