The Nelson compromise is not great, but it is far better than Stupak and has the support of Barbara Boxer. The Stupak amendment was passed by majority vote because Nancy Pelosi allowed it to be voted on. She thought she had to do this in order for the bill to pass.

The left lost this fight along time ago. I am not sure why NOW, Emily's List and all the other women's rights organizations are not placing all the pressure in the world on Olympia Snowe to vote for cloture. If she did, Democrats would not need Ben Nelson and he would have no leverage.

But NOW has been irrelevant for decades, guess they don't want to change that streak now.

NOW got their tax on plastic surgery removed according to Ezra Klein:

And then there's my favorite sentence in the CBO report: "The 5 percent excise tax on cosmetic surgery was eliminated, and a 10 percent excise tax on indoor tanning services was added." Alrighty then.

So, yeah, NOW really has it's priorities straight.

I'm glad NOW opposes it. We already know that any compromise deemed by the left to be 'acceptable' is deemed by the right to be 'not far enough'.

It is the greatest of tragedies that the House-Senate committee bill is still filibusterable.

NOW is misnamed.  If they were being honest, they would call themselves the National Organization for Upper and Upper Middle Class White Women of the Left.  Their focus issues apply to less than 5 percent of the population.  Therefore, it's not surprising that less than 5% of the population gives a mad fuck what NOW has to say.

To wit, how many women returning to work in their 40s and 50s are concerned about a tax on plastic surgery?  I have yet to meet one.  "I haven't worked in ten years, but I can still afford a plastic surgeon." Don't worry, Mrs 90210, NOW's got your back.