Bush administration tries to have contraception defined as abortion
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Bush Administration Tries to Redefine Contraception as Abortion
July 16th, 2008 by Karina
The New York Times reports that the Bush Administration??s Department of Health and Human Services is drafting a rule that would place new restrictions on domestic family planning programs. While current law allows health care providers and professionals to refuse to provide abortions based on their religious beliefs, this provision would threaten the funding of organizations and health facilities if they do not hire people who would refuse to provide birth control and defines abortion so broadly that it would include many types of birth control, including oral contraception.
Speaker Pelosi released the following statement on the Administration??s draft proposal:
If the Administration goes through with this draft proposal, it will launch a dangerous assault on women??s health.
The majority of Americans oppose this out of touch position that redefines contraception as abortion and represents a sustained pattern of the Bush Administration to reject medical and sound science in favor of a misguided ideology that has no place in our government.
I urge the President to reject this policy and join with Democrats to focus on preventing unintended pregnancies and reducing the need for abortion through increasing access to family planning services and access to affordable birth control.
From Congresswoman Lois Capps, Chair of the Democratic Women??s Working Group:
WASHINGTON, D.C. ?? Today Congresswoman Lois Capps called on the Bush Administration to stop its misguided effort to restrict access to basic family planning services. According to press reports, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is drafting new rules that would severely restrict women??s health care options while undermining the ability of health care providers to secure funding and provide essential services. It would require all recipients of federal health care funding to sign a written certification that they will not ??discriminate? against health care entities who refuse to provide patients with abortions or even birth control.
??Once again, the Bush Administration is carelessly playing partisan politics with women??s health care,? said Capps, a nurse and Vice-Chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee??s Subcommittee on Health. ??Time and again this Administration has jeopardized women??s access to essential family planning services for purely ideological reasons. Sound science and responsible public health practices should never be trumped by political ideology. This proposal is unnecessary and would be harmful to women??s health.?
Federal law already protects individuals who prefer to not participate in abortion services and many states have refusal clauses for either individuals or institutions that object to providing or participating in abortions. The Bush Administration proposal goes far beyond those measures and attempts to define abortion services so broadly that it would include many types of birth control, including oral contraception and emergency contraception. Capps and several of her House colleagues will be sending a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services objecting to the draft rule and urging the Administration to reconsider its position.
I always was put off by the Bush Administration's far right-wing ideological mandates, but this really shows just what extremists they are (even managing to surprise me!). We all need to stop ignoring the elephant in the room (especially the elephant in the office), and one of the biggest problems facing America: Governments dictating our way of life and putting their personal morality into law when it doesn't even vaguely reflect the morality of the majority, or even a sizeable minority. I say "our way of life" because US government policy has a way of seeping across the border.
It's beginning to sound almost comical when Bush rail's against "extremism" while promoting "moderation" when addressing other nations.
Bush administration tries to have contraception defined as abortion
Bush has gone over to the darkside.
Bush administration tries to have contraception defined as abortion
Don't you bump him unto us hydro folks.....:wtf:
Bush administration tries to have contraception defined as abortion
I had to read that a couple times to convince myself it wasn't a piece of dark political humor.
It's not.
And I'm scared.
Bush administration tries to have contraception defined as abortion
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Originally Posted by stinkyattic
I had to read that a couple times to convince myself it wasn't a piece of dark political humor.
It's not.
And I'm scared.
I know you swallowed a little pill at some point StinkyAttic. Baby killer! Baby killer!
Bush administration tries to have contraception defined as abortion
This is one of the main reasons why I'm NOT a republican. To each his own but I'm not for the far right bible thumpers in politics. :mad:
Have a good one!:s4:
Bush administration tries to have contraception defined as abortion
Bush really wants America to turn to the 3rd world.
Bush administration tries to have contraception defined as abortion
There is something really perverse about this kind of ideology:
Don't prevent them from being concieved.
Once concieved, don't prevent them from being born.
Once born, they are on their own! Let 'em live in poverty!
If these unwanted, impoveriished babies grow up to be criminals, then throw 'em in jail or fry 'em!
Bush administration tries to have contraception defined as abortion
So um, would the "pull out" method fall under the "abortion" label? If so then I guess I am a baby killer now.:D
Bush administration tries to have contraception defined as abortion
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Originally Posted by 8182KSKUSH
So um, would the "pull out" method fall under the "abortion" label? If so then I guess I am a baby killer now.:D
No, but the "pull out and jerk off until you squirt on her boobs" method falls under the "misled by porn" label. They don't actually appreciate that as much as you might think. You are probalby not a baby killer --- but maybe not a lady killer either.
Bush administration tries to have contraception defined as abortion
America, land of the free... lol!
Bush administration tries to have contraception defined as abortion
political agenda is really just the extreme perversion of religion... Since religious people make up the majority, the crazy influential extremists have greater chance to rise to power. Each religion, or denomination of a religion, interprets the law of "god" a bit differently but the main goal remains the same: to control our free will under the rule of their so-called biased morals.
I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to go as far as to make any sexual act illegal if the intention is not to conceive. The catholic church sorta has that stance... unless it's one of the things they have flip-flopped on in recent years.
Every month lots of unfertilized eggs get flushed from the female's body (the period), so wouldn't birth control be viewed as something to stop the natural abortion of eggs until you're ready to conceive? lol...
If things get bad enough to where contraception devices become illegal, like condoms, then we're gonna see an explosion in the number of STD's and unplanned pregnancies.
Bush administration tries to have contraception defined as abortion
This ideology terrifies me, too, and it's absurd that the Bush administration wants to restrict family planning in this way. They need to stay completely out of this, which should be a matter of privacy.
Just for the record, this proposed policy originally seemed to be aimed at the types of birth control that the religious right considers to be "abortive" in nature: those that stop the implantation of an already-fertilized egg. Chief among those would be the morning-after pill, aka Plan B emergency contraception. Under the broadened definition of abortion under this policy, though, even regular birth control pills could be considered abortive, which is crazy. They don't prevent fertilized eggs from being implanted. They prevent ovulation by tricking the female body into thinking it's already pregnant so it doesn't release eggs in the first place.
Under this proposed HHS policy, pharmacists and health care providers who opposed any type of contraception--strict Catholics, for instance--could refuse to write or fill prescriptions for any sorts of contraceptives. That's scary.
GreenDestiny, just as a matter of scientific record, the female body doesn't flush out unfertilized eggs during its monthly period. The period is where it sheds the lining of the uterus. Women release one mature ovum per month, generally--the ovaries on each side taking turns every other month. That ovum travels down the fallopian tubes and is either fertilized or, if it doesn't get fertilized, transforms into a hormonal-releasing cluster of cells (the corpus luteum) that send important hormonal signals to the woman's body. That corpus luteum gets reabsorbed by her body as it releases those hormones.
Just had to get that science on the record! I'm doing my obstetrical clerkship (rotation) right now, so all this is fresh in my mind. The politicians need to leave these policy decisions to be made by women and their doctors or nurse-practitioners.
Bush administration tries to have contraception defined as abortion
That's why over here the vast majority of people think Bush and his cronies are a bunch of complete tossers.
NCM
Bush administration tries to have contraception defined as abortion
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Originally Posted by 8182KSKUSH
So um, would the "pull out" method fall under the "abortion" label? If so then I guess I am a baby killer now.:D
According to the text, after God had killed Onan's older brother Er, Judah asked Onan to have sex with Tamar, Er's widow, so that the offspring could be declared Er's heir. The narrative implies that Onan didn't object to the sex itself, but performed coitus interruptus, spilling his seed upon the ground, so that there wouldn't be any offspring he couldn't claim as his own; the passage goes on to state that for this act, a displeased God killed him.
Getting off before the station can really piss off god. :D
Following this strange logic means that every time you spank the monkey you are "killing babies".
Bush administration tries to have contraception defined as abortion
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Originally Posted by birdgirl73
GreenDestiny, just as a matter of scientific record, the female body doesn't flush out unfertilized eggs during its monthly period. The period is where it sheds the lining of the uterus. Women release one mature ovum per month, generally--the ovaries on each side taking turns every other month. That ovum travels down the fallopian tubes and is either fertilized or, if it doesn't get fertilized, transforms into a hormonal-releasing cluster of cells (the corpus luteum) that send important hormonal signals to the woman's body. That corpus luteum gets reabsorbed by her body as it releases those hormones.
Just had to get that science on the record! I'm doing my obstetrical clerkship (rotation) right now, so all this is fresh in my mind. The politicians need to leave these policy decisions to be made by women and their doctors or nurse-practitioners.
Thanks for the correction, what I'd been taught or heard/read was wrong then... old outdated info I suppose. I can feel the neural pathways updating in my head right now!
Bush administration tries to have contraception defined as abortion
This is one of the key things I disagree with Republicans right now. This is such unconstitutional bullshit. It is a womans right to do whatever she pleases to her own genitals and ovaries, abortion included.
I don't believe that birth control (the pill and such) is used enough!
