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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 Administrationâ??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 Administrationâ??s draft proposal:

If the Administration goes through with this draft proposal, it will launch a dangerous assault on womenâ??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 Womenâ??s Working Group:

WASHINGTON, D.C. â?? 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 womenâ??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 â??discriminateâ?� against health care entities who refuse to provide patients with abortions or even birth control.

â??Once again, the Bush Administration is carelessly playing partisan politics with womenâ??s health care,â?� said Capps, a nurse and Vice-Chair of the Energy and Commerce Committeeâ??s Subcommittee on Health. â??Time and again this Administration has jeopardized womenâ??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 womenâ??s health.â?�

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.

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[Dutch Pimp]

Bush has gone over to the darkside.

[Weedhound]

Don't you bump him unto us hydro folks.....:wtf:

[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.

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

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!

[Psycho4Bud]

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.

Have a good one!:s4:

[thcbongman]

Bush really wants America to turn to the 3rd world.

[dragonrider]

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!

[8182KSKUSH]

So um, would the "pull out" method fall under the "abortion" label? If so then I guess I am a baby killer now.

[dragonrider]

So um, would the "pull out" method fall under the "abortion" label? If so then I guess I am a baby killer now.

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.