Category Archives: Election
Vote Against denying woman necessary and private options
Canceled health plans bad idea from the start | ABQJournal Online
As usual, Quigley does a great job of explaining a complex topic. I’m still less than thrilled to go from $95/month to over $300, based on my hope and assumption that I won’t need the expanded coverage (yet).
Canceled health plans bad idea from the start | ABQJournal Online by Winthrop Quigley
Before we all rush to man the barricades, though, remember these are the same health plans that precipitated a different kind of outrage a few years ago when companies like Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico and Presbyterian Healthcare Services proposed completely justifiable 20-plus percent premium increases.
I should also point out that owners of these plans periodically call the Journal to complain that they just found out their pregnancies, their cancers or their bum knees are not covered, and they now face horrendous medical bills.
Canceled health plans bad idea from the start | ABQJournal Online
Vote Against…
- Against denying anyone the medical care she needs.
- Against intruding in a painful private crisis.
- Against using inflammatory scare tactics. (If you showed pictures of amputations, gullible fools would vote against them.)
Vote against the gawd-awful and unconstitutional proposition before the City of Albuquerque.
How many voting FOR thrusting the city between a woman and her doctor are for:
- sex education
- free birth control
- aid to families with dependent children
- adoptions by gay and lesbian couples and same-sex marriage
- letting a man die of prostate cancer lest he interfere with conception prospects
Don’t let a well-funded and fanatical minority decide this election. Vote AGAINST.
Protect women’s rights — vote against this gawd-awful ordinance
This is ironically ill-conceived.
Healthy turnout in ‘historic’ abortion vote | ABQJournal Online By Dan McKay / Journal Staff Writer
Copyright © 2013 Albuquerque Journal
No city in the United States has banned abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
Voters this month will decide whether Albuquerque becomes the first to try. …
The ordinance appears in its entirety on the city ballot, a result of the City Council resolution that established the election. Critics say the language is vague and confusing. The ordinance was written by supporters, not city councilors or city attorneys. …
Ives said the ordinance is “deceptive and misleading.”
Halfway through pregnancy, about 20 weeks, is when certain tests are done and the health of the fetus may become clear, she said. That’s also when “pregnancy becomes taxing enough on the woman’s body” that her own health problems become clear, Ives said.
“You wouldn’t want to push a woman to make a quick decision,” Ives said. “You want women to have an opportunity to really think through their choice.”
The language in the ordinance could also limit the options of women and doctors when health problems arise, she said.
“I think absolutely a physician would have to provide the best opportunity for a fetus to survive rather than concern themselves with what’s best for a woman’s health,” Ives said.
The ban doesn’t contain an exception for rape or incest. …
City anticipates a challenge
A legal adviser to the City Council has raised questions about whether the ordinance would survive a legal challenge. Regardless, the city would defend the ordinance.
“The city anticipates the ordinance will be challenged and that a judge will make a ruling on the constitutionality of it,” City Attorney David Tourek said in a written statement.
It’s not clear how much the defense would cost, Tourek said in response to Journal questions.
“The city may be ordered by a judge to pay attorney fees and costs if the party challenging the constitutionality of the ordinance prevails,” he said. “The cost to the city would be based on the length of the legal proceedings.”
Ives suggested the ordinance wouldn’t survive a legal challenge, if passed by voters.
“Every court that has reached the question of whether or not 20-week bans are constitutional, all those courts have said they are not,” she said.
Healthy turnout in ‘historic’ abortion vote | ABQJournal Online
Early-voting sites open today | ABQJournal Online
Take your photo ID.
Early-voting sites open today | ABQJournal Online
By Journal Staff | 8 hours ago
Albuquerque voters can cast ballots in the Nov. 19 special election at any of 12 early-voting locations that open today.
The locations will be open 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. A valid photo ID is required.
The ballot includes a proposed ordinance that would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
Uptown-area voters in council District 7 will also choose a city councilor – either incumbent Janice Arnold-Jones, a Republican, or Diane Gibson, a Democrat.
The locations are:
- Venture Commerce Center, 9674-3 Eagle Ranch NW
- Don Newton/Taylor Ranch Community Center, 4900 Kachina NW
- Shops @ 98th and Central, 120 98th NW, A5
- West Mesa Community Center, 5500 Glenrio NW
- Office of the City Clerk, 600 Second NW, seventh floor
- City of Albuquerque Records Center, 604 Menaul NW
- North Domingo Baca Multigenerational Center, 7521 Carmel NE
- Glenwood Village Shopping Center, 4710 Tramway NE, C-4
- Montgomery Crossing Shopping Center, 8510 Montgomery NE
- Daskalos Plaza, 5339 Menaul NE
- Manzano Mesa Multigenerational Center, 501 Elizabeth SE
- Cesar Chavez Community Center, 7505 Kathryn SE
Hundreds of ND oil spills not publicized — who the hell wants the Keystone pipeline?
Big Oil is like the Tobacco Industry — poisoning the world for profit with support from the government. A pox on both those houses.
Hundreds of ND oil spills not publicized | ABQJournal Online
By JAMES MacPHERSON / Associated Press
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota, the nation’s No. 2 oil producer behind Texas, recorded nearly 300 oil pipeline spills in less than two years, state documents show.
None was reported to the public, officials said.
According to records obtained by The Associated Press, the pipeline spills, many of them small, are among some 750 “oil field incidents” that have occurred since January 2012 without public notification.
Hundreds of ND oil spills not publicized | ABQJournal Online