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anti-choice fuckers - want to cry

alafairnadia
alafairnadia
edited November -1 in The Lounge / Random Stuff
from here:
Oppose the Bush Administration’s Attack on Birth Control

The Bush administration is proposing a new regulation that could discourage doctors and health-care clinics from providing birth control to women who need it. This proposed regulation deliberately confuses the definitions of contraception and abortion.

* This regulation could undermine good state laws that require hospitals to provide emergency contraception to rape survivors and ensure that pharmacies fill women’s prescriptions for birth control.
* The proposal could allow health-care corporations (hospitals, HMOs, and health plans) to refuse to provide services or make referrals for birth control.
* The proposed regulation could affect Medicaid and the Title X family-planning program. For instance, staff at clinics or health-care plans that contract for Medicaid services could refuse to provide contraception.

This proposal is an example of the Bush administration stretching existing federal laws beyond their original intent and further injecting politics into health-care services.

Tell your members of Congress that you support their efforts to get the Bush administration to reconsider this terrible idea.
the link takes you to where you can complain.

Comments

  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    wait, do you work for planned parenthood (feel free to PM the answer)? I was furious that the switched from clinton to obama mid primary campaign. I'm like that. however, I'm so angry with Bush about this I wan to know what to do.
  • livetotravel
    livetotravel
    That was NARAL ;-)
  • sweet tea
    sweet tea
    i find that NARAL -- one of the very first organizations whose logo i was taught to recognize, so that their letters didn't get thrown out -- is these days regularly enraging.

    they did this ad in conjunction with the end of sex and the city a few years ago that still has me pissed at how dumb they can be.
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    right right, you guys win. I couldn't remember who had sent me the email after I got it (was too peeved) so directed all donations to emily's list. whoops. now too broke to assist.