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		<title>Comment on Abortion Provisions in House Health Bill by Daniel Cornwall</title>
		<link>http://alaskanlibrarian.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/abortion-provisions-in-house-health-bill/#comment-1270</link>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Cornwall</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Norma,

Specifics, please. What am I being biased about? If it&#039;s being biased about using the text of legislation than one&#039;s worst fears, I plead guilty. 

If you can show me a specific provision in this bill whose plain language meaning is &quot;You may pay for your abortion with public funds&quot;, I will concede that is what the legislation says.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Norma,</p>
<p>Specifics, please. What am I being biased about? If it&#8217;s being biased about using the text of legislation than one&#8217;s worst fears, I plead guilty. </p>
<p>If you can show me a specific provision in this bill whose plain language meaning is &#8220;You may pay for your abortion with public funds&#8221;, I will concede that is what the legislation says.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Abortion Provisions in House Health Bill by Norma</title>
		<link>http://alaskanlibrarian.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/abortion-provisions-in-house-health-bill/#comment-1269</link>
		<dc:creator>Norma</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>No bias on your part, of course.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No bias on your part, of course.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Abortion Provisions in House Health Bill by alaskanlibrarian</title>
		<link>http://alaskanlibrarian.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/abortion-provisions-in-house-health-bill/#comment-1268</link>
		<dc:creator>alaskanlibrarian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>After checking the House bill, I withdraw my concurrence with your point. Sec &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3962/text?version=ih&amp;nid=t0:ih:1610&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;341(c)(3)&lt;/a&gt; forbids using taxpayer funds for abortion coverage.

(3) PROHIBITION OF USE OF PUBLIC FUNDS FOR ABORTION COVERAGE- An affordability credit may not be used for payment for services described in section 222(d)(4)(A).

If this doesn&#039;t answer your concern, please let me know why, referencing a bill section or current law if you can.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After checking the House bill, I withdraw my concurrence with your point. Sec <a href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3962/text?version=ih&amp;nid=t0:ih:1610" rel="nofollow">341(c)(3)</a> forbids using taxpayer funds for abortion coverage.</p>
<p>(3) PROHIBITION OF USE OF PUBLIC FUNDS FOR ABORTION COVERAGE- An affordability credit may not be used for payment for services described in section 222(d)(4)(A).</p>
<p>If this doesn&#8217;t answer your concern, please let me know why, referencing a bill section or current law if you can.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Abortion Provisions in House Health Bill by alaskanlibrarian</title>
		<link>http://alaskanlibrarian.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/abortion-provisions-in-house-health-bill/#comment-1266</link>
		<dc:creator>alaskanlibrarian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I concede your point, but it doesn&#039;t cancel the point of my post. Any suggestion that ALL plans must have abortion coverage or that abortion coverage is hard wired into the public option of this bill is false. At least for this version of the legislation.

Actually, federal money is already indirectly paying for abortions through health coverage by the tax advantages given to companies that provide health coverage. Counting these indirect subsidies, I don&#039;t see the House Health bill making the abortion situation worse.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I concede your point, but it doesn&#8217;t cancel the point of my post. Any suggestion that ALL plans must have abortion coverage or that abortion coverage is hard wired into the public option of this bill is false. At least for this version of the legislation.</p>
<p>Actually, federal money is already indirectly paying for abortions through health coverage by the tax advantages given to companies that provide health coverage. Counting these indirect subsidies, I don&#8217;t see the House Health bill making the abortion situation worse.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Abortion Provisions in House Health Bill by Robert</title>
		<link>http://alaskanlibrarian.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/abortion-provisions-in-house-health-bill/#comment-1264</link>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>While people will not be FORCED to have plans that cover abortion....taxpayer money will be used to buy insurance plans that pay for elective abortions for any reason. That is a fact of the bill.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While people will not be FORCED to have plans that cover abortion&#8230;.taxpayer money will be used to buy insurance plans that pay for elective abortions for any reason. That is a fact of the bill.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Abortion Provisions in House Health Bill by alaskanlibrarian</title>
		<link>http://alaskanlibrarian.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/abortion-provisions-in-house-health-bill/#comment-1263</link>
		<dc:creator>alaskanlibrarian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi HistoryGoddess

If I&#039;m not mistaken, this may be the first really big piece of social legislation that a majority of Americans have had the ability to see before getting passed into law. It makes me feel privileged to live in the current times. I wonder whether Social Security and/or Medicare would have been passed in their current from if the text of the those bills had been available to the public at large. 

It will be interesting to see how this new level of transparency affects things. I share your view that it is at least useful for combating propaganda and focusing the debate on what is being proposed.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi HistoryGoddess</p>
<p>If I&#8217;m not mistaken, this may be the first really big piece of social legislation that a majority of Americans have had the ability to see before getting passed into law. It makes me feel privileged to live in the current times. I wonder whether Social Security and/or Medicare would have been passed in their current from if the text of the those bills had been available to the public at large. </p>
<p>It will be interesting to see how this new level of transparency affects things. I share your view that it is at least useful for combating propaganda and focusing the debate on what is being proposed.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Abortion Provisions in House Health Bill by HistoryGoddess</title>
		<link>http://alaskanlibrarian.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/abortion-provisions-in-house-health-bill/#comment-1262</link>
		<dc:creator>HistoryGoddess</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nothing like using a primary source, AK Librarian!  Thanks for highlighting this part first.  You are right, this is the one most likely to be lied about.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nothing like using a primary source, AK Librarian!  Thanks for highlighting this part first.  You are right, this is the one most likely to be lied about.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Unviewed But Decent: Tracy Arm by alaskanlibrarian</title>
		<link>http://alaskanlibrarian.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/unviewed-but-decent-tracy-arm/#comment-1256</link>
		<dc:creator>alaskanlibrarian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nice image of poison ivy. Looks so friendly. Perfect photo for &quot;leaves of three, let it be.&quot;

I was standing on a boat. The &quot;Alaska Adventure&quot; if I recall right.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nice image of poison ivy. Looks so friendly. Perfect photo for &#8220;leaves of three, let it be.&#8221;</p>
<p>I was standing on a boat. The &#8220;Alaska Adventure&#8221; if I recall right.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Unviewed But Decent: Tracy Arm by Jackie</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jackie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I looked at yours, will you look at one of my unviewed?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/siegelsdroppings/3317943746/

What were you standing on that you were so close to the iceberg?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I looked at yours, will you look at one of my unviewed?<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/siegelsdroppings/3317943746/" rel="nofollow">http://www.flickr.com/photos/siegelsdroppings/3317943746/</a></p>
<p>What were you standing on that you were so close to the iceberg?</p>
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		<title>Comment on Softer Side of Michael Reagan by KarenJ</title>
		<link>http://alaskanlibrarian.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/softer-side-of-michael-reagan/#comment-1253</link>
		<dc:creator>KarenJ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The 40,000 troops heading for the Fox Studios would be a more robust protest than that weak and wimpy Palin protest last summer outside Dave Letterman&#039;s studio just a few doors away -- 15 protesters with 35 intrepid MSM reporters and camera people!!

Seriously, Fox opinionators are just a hair away from sedition.  No doubt the U.S. Dept. of Justice is waiting for them to cross the line, and the FBI is already on the job monitoring the loyal Fox stupids who broadcast everything they think on them thar intertubes...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The 40,000 troops heading for the Fox Studios would be a more robust protest than that weak and wimpy Palin protest last summer outside Dave Letterman&#8217;s studio just a few doors away &#8212; 15 protesters with 35 intrepid MSM reporters and camera people!!</p>
<p>Seriously, Fox opinionators are just a hair away from sedition.  No doubt the U.S. Dept. of Justice is waiting for them to cross the line, and the FBI is already on the job monitoring the loyal Fox stupids who broadcast everything they think on them thar intertubes&#8230;</p>
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