Kelley Bell-Wenzlaff writes:

After a long and difficult debate on health care, The Stupak/Pitts Amendment passed The House 240 to 194 with 64 Democrats breaking from the party platform to add an amendment to the bill further restricting legal abortion. The move was underhanded, disgusting and unforgivable to the women in the pro-choice movement because it took the all important health care bill we so desperately need and turned it into a political football. The trick used is called “a poison pill”; an attempt to add inflammatory last minute language to bring down a good bill.

Betrayal. Pure and simple. Sixty percent of the women in this country vote democratic, and do so because they believe in the party platform; a platform that includes comprehensive women’s rights, not as a mere third rail, but as a major tenant of the overall concept of human rights. And these women are pissed.

And…

Political commentator and newly elected Pepper Pike City Councilwoman Jill Miller Zimon is very concerned about the ramifications of this legislation, citing how important this health care legislation will be for so many people. Yet in spite of that, as a pro-choice Democratic woman she stands firmly behind the 41 women in the House who have signed a statement vowing to vote down the bill if the Stupak/Pitts language is not removed.

“We DO need to pass the health care bill,” Zimon said, “but healthcare for all of us, and that includes our senior citizens, men, and women, not just select constituencies.”

More from Councilwomanmember Zimon at BlogHer.