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Rachel Maddow on President Obama's Extraordinary Appeal to Israelis and Palestinians

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus3/22/2013 3:29:14 pm PDT

I see the rebranding scheme is in full force today:

Republican senators seek to add anti-abortion amendments to proposed budget bill

Five new anti-abortion amendments have been filed by Republican senators to their proposed budget resolution as part of the marathon voting session known as “vote-a-rama,” The Huffington Post reported Friday.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) filed the District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would ban abortions after 20 weeks of gestation in Washington, D.C., while Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) introduced an amendment that would make it a crime to transport a minor across state lines for an abortion in order to evade parental consent laws. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) wants to enact an amendment that would ban abortions based on the gender of the fetus, and the amendment offered by Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) would allow hospital or health care workers to opt out of participating in an abortion procedure or dispensing emergency contraception if they morally object to it.

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