Word: optional
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Southern California Club has opted to give members the option of pre-renewing their membership for several years at once in order to maintain their numbers. Meanwhile, the Seattle and Southern California Clubs have begun to modernize their communication techniques, contacting alumni via e-mail and Facebook...
...students were protesting the Stupak amendment to the Health Care reform bill recently passed by the House. This amendment would prevent insurance plans participating in a public, federally-funded option from covering abortions...
...private insurers adopt the task force's policies, then many women may soon find themselves at odds with their doctors, who may continue to advise annual screenings even if patients have to pay for them out of pocket. "That would be a step backward, taking away an option from women and denying them the choice," says Dr. Mary Daly, chairperson of the department of clinical genetics at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia...
...Capps language in the last weeks before the House vote, both sides attacked him. Planned Parenthood said the effort -- which attempted to strengthen the segregation of funds and ensure that no federal dollars could ever be designated to fund elective abortions in the exchange (which would include the public option) - could "tip the balance away from women's access to reproductive health care." And the Catholic bishops conference issued a memo calling the amendment "not a meaningful compromise...
...original version of story incorrectly stated that the Capps amendment extended the decades-old Hyde Amendment prohibitions against government funding of abortions to the medical care covered under the public option. In fact, the Capps amendment simply gave authority to the Secretary of Health and Human Services to determine whether elective abortions would be covered under the public option...