Videos Discuss Health Reform Abortion Debate, Maternal Health Efforts

Main Category: Women's Health / Gynecology
Also Included In: Abortion
Article Date: 19 Mar 2010 - 4:00 PDT

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The following summarizes selected women's health-related videos.

 Maddow Tracks Reform Developments: MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Thursday discussed Rep. Bart Stupak's (D-Mich.) continued opposition to the Senate health reform bill's abortion language, despite support for the bill from Catholic nuns and some antiabortion-right lawmakers. Maddow also included a discussion with Tracy Weitz of the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health about current restrictions on abortion access and how the Senate bill would affect insurance coverage for abortion (Maddow, "The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC, 3/17). On Friday, Maddow featured a commentary on Stupak's efforts, as well as an interview with Melanie Sloan of CREW about the lawmaker's ties to a Christian group called The Family (Maddow, "The Rachel Maddow Show," MSNBC, 3/12).

 Clinton Discusses Global Maternal Health: In an interview with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell about women's rights, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called attention to the Obama administration's focus on maternal and child health in its global health initiatives. Clinton said, "If women are able to survive, if they have access to family planning, they have fewer children, they take better care of those children, it's more likely those children will go to school" (Mitchell, "Andrea Mitchell Reports," MSNBC, 3/15).

 Planned Parenthood Looks at Private Abortion Coverage: A YouTube video from the Planned Parenthood Federation of America describes the emotional and financial challenges a South Dakota woman faced in obtaining a selective reduction after a medical diagnosis threatened her twin fetuses. The woman's husband said the costs related to the procedure would have been thousands of dollars if the couple did not have insurance to cover abortion services (Planned Parenthood Federation of America, 3/16).

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