{"id":6111,"date":"2011-10-13T00:07:08","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T07:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/13\/how-congress-avoids-the-jobs-issue\/"},"modified":"2011-10-13T00:07:08","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T07:07:08","slug":"how-congress-avoids-the-jobs-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/13\/how-congress-avoids-the-jobs-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"How Congress Avoids the Jobs Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Republicans ran for office in 2010, their mantra was \u201cJobs! Jobs! Jobs!\u201d  Since they took control of the House, they have not brought a single bill to the floor intended to create jobs.  They refuse to debate or vote on the American Jobs Act.  In fact, they avoid the subject like a plague, except to lie that they are pursuing it.  To avoid the jobs issue, they turn to social issues, such as their war on Islam, war on immigrants, war on gays, and in this example, war on women.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"13jobs\"In what would be a major and potentially deadly change in American healthcare policy<\/strong>, The House of Representatives will take up H.R. 358 \u2014The Protect Life Act\u2014this week. The bill would permit federally funded hospitals to refuse abortion services even to women who would likely die without the procedure<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As the law currently stands, hospitals are required by EMTALA to provide emergency care to anyone who walks through their doors. If a hospital is unable or unwilling to perform a necessary procedure, it is obligated to stabilize the patient and then transfer the individual to a facility that can perform the procedure and agrees to do so<\/strong>. As a result of the EMTALA requirements, the 600 plus Catholic hospitals in the nation who are unwilling to perform abortions on religious grounds, even in life-threatening circumstances to the mother, are obligated to transfer that patient in need of such a procedure to a hospital that agrees to perform the required operation.<\/p>\n

If The Protect Life Act were to pass, this would no longer be the case. Hospitals that do not care to perform abortions, for whatever reason and even when the procedure is required to save the life of the mother, would be legally permitted to simply do nothing<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Mother Jones<\/a>><\/p>\n

In the interest of disclosure, I believe that abortion is a terrible decision.  However, I recognize that sometimes, it is the least terrible of the options available.  I also recognize that I lack the right to impose my personal belief on anyone else, so as much as I dislike abortion, the decision belongs not to me, but to each individual woman faced with that choice, and therefore I fully support a woman\u2019s right to choose.<\/font><\/p>\n

But Republican attempts to destroy personal freedom is not what is on Americans\u2019 minds.  Jobs is.  <\/font>Rachel Maddow covers this disconnect and other issues with columnist EJ Dionne<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Everything Republicans do can be traced back to one of two purposes.  First is the transfer of wealth from the poor and middle classes to millionaires, billionaires and corporate criminals.  Second is the establishment of a permanent regime of Republican one-party rule.  Creating jobs with a Democratic President in office mitigates against the second purpose.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Republicans ran for office in 2010, their mantra was \u201cJobs! Jobs! Jobs!\u201d  Since they took control of the House, they have not brought a single bill to the floor intended to create jobs.  They refuse to debate or vote on the American Jobs Act.  In fact, they avoid the subject like a plague, except […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}