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Calling birth control abortion
From Democratic Wings another fine feminist blog.
Senators Clinton and Murray are stonewalled by Bush HHS secretary, as he goes ahead with rule change.
As described previously, the rule "aims to change the definition of abortion to include all contraceptives and therefore allow health care providers and corporations to refuse to provide family planning.
The draft regulation could have the effect of severely undermining hard-fought state laws that guarantee women's access to birth control and could put federal programs like Medicaid and Title X, which provide family-planning services to millions of women, in jeopardy as well."
Interestingly, those in the Kool Aid-drinking set who keep telling us we must vote for Obama or lose Roe v. Wade are nowhere to be found on this issue. Show me you actually give a damn. Or shut the hell up.
From Senator Hillary Clinton:
U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA) and Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), who led the Senate's efforts to preempt Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Michael Leavitt's move to issue a rule that could have impacted access to comprehensive family planning for millions of American women, today decried HHS's decision to move forward with a modified rule that would put ideology over women’s health by putting in place barriers to receiving quality, affordable health care and scientifically-proven, accurate information for those who need it the most.
Sign Hillary's reproductive rights petition and read the full post at Democratic Wings here.
"It appears that the Bush administration is once again putting politics before public health. In issuing this rule Secretary Leavitt has ignored the requests of Congress and the needs of millions of American women," Senator Murray said. "For eight years this administration has worked to undermine women's health – they won't get away with it on their way out the door."
"Make no mistake: the Bush Administration is threatening access to family planning options for women who need them most. This is just one more example of the Bush Administration putting ideology ahead of science and women’s health. We cannot allow the health and reproductive rights of women to be undermined and it is time for those who support women’s health to make our voices heard,” said Senator Clinton.
Senators Clinton and Murray are stonewalled by Bush HHS secretary, as he goes ahead with rule change.
As described previously, the rule "aims to change the definition of abortion to include all contraceptives and therefore allow health care providers and corporations to refuse to provide family planning.
The draft regulation could have the effect of severely undermining hard-fought state laws that guarantee women's access to birth control and could put federal programs like Medicaid and Title X, which provide family-planning services to millions of women, in jeopardy as well."
Interestingly, those in the Kool Aid-drinking set who keep telling us we must vote for Obama or lose Roe v. Wade are nowhere to be found on this issue. Show me you actually give a damn. Or shut the hell up.
From Senator Hillary Clinton:
U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA) and Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), who led the Senate's efforts to preempt Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Michael Leavitt's move to issue a rule that could have impacted access to comprehensive family planning for millions of American women, today decried HHS's decision to move forward with a modified rule that would put ideology over women’s health by putting in place barriers to receiving quality, affordable health care and scientifically-proven, accurate information for those who need it the most.
Sign Hillary's reproductive rights petition and read the full post at Democratic Wings here.
"It appears that the Bush administration is once again putting politics before public health. In issuing this rule Secretary Leavitt has ignored the requests of Congress and the needs of millions of American women," Senator Murray said. "For eight years this administration has worked to undermine women's health – they won't get away with it on their way out the door."
"Make no mistake: the Bush Administration is threatening access to family planning options for women who need them most. This is just one more example of the Bush Administration putting ideology ahead of science and women’s health. We cannot allow the health and reproductive rights of women to be undermined and it is time for those who support women’s health to make our voices heard,” said Senator Clinton.
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