You must be *fucking* kidding me

[make_your_move]

Thank you redhotlips and much_ado for posting this.

If you care *at all* about protecting your rights to birth control, the right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy ... read this and write your representatives ... this is oversteps all boundaries on individual rights, particularly for women.

In a spectacular act of complicity with the religious
right, the Department of Health and Human Services Monday released a
proposal that allows any federal grant recipient to obstruct a woman's
access to contraception. In order to do this, the Department is
attempting to redefine many forms of contraception, the birth control
40% of Americans use, as abortion. [...]

Up until now, the [US]
federal government followed the definition of pregnancy accepted by the
American Medical Association and our nation's pregnancy experts, the
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which is:
pregnancy begins at implantation. With this proposal, however, HHS is dismissing medical experts and opting instead to accept a definition of pregnancy based on polling data.
It now claims that pregnancy begins at some biologically unknowable
moment (there's no test to determine if a woman's egg has been
fertilized). Under these new standards there would be no way for a
woman to prove she's not pregnant. Thus, any woman could be denied
contraception under HHS' new science.

Here is a copy of the full article

Comments

[diekonigin.livejournal.com]

naamah_darling posted an amazingly seething rant this morning about the entire subject.

[thatliardiego.livejournal.com]

Once again, the Bushies trying to push past Roe v. Wade all the way to Griswold v. Connecticut. It's the fundies who want women to have to bear 18 children, and stay at home to raise them all, leaving Men To Rule The World As It Should Be.

Bush will probably try to implement this by executive order before he leaves.

[keyne.livejournal.com]

It's the fundies who want women to have to bear 18 children

You'll note that Bush himself has only two known children, conceived on (presumably) a single date. He's not exactly the politician you'd expect to go along on this one.

Not that hypocrisy in government is news, I suppose.

[thatliardiego.livejournal.com]

It's "do as he says, not as he does." But his government is full of Christian fundamentalists who are all about the regulation of what women do with their bodies, despite all that talk about "getting government off your back." Sadly, it's just another example from a long and growing list.

[camperamy.livejournal.com]

"In a spectacular act of complicity with the religious
right, the Department of Health and Human Services Monday released a
proposal that allows any federal grant recipient to obstruct a woman's
access to contraception."

whut?
You mean they will turn the grant recipients into a type of police?

And..while were at it... rolling us back to pre-1920 something when women had no right to vote or rights of their own. Aw heck, why not take us back a little further and make us a piece of property again.

So, uhm they would leave contraception up to the men - or worse, they risk world anihilation from disease because women had no way to protect themselves and their men? (I know, that last one was extreme)

teh suck

[pyrategrrl.livejournal.com]

http://www.hhs.gov/feedback.html

a link to the Health and human services feedback page, i got from the Daily Kos

wonder how long that will be active.

[lalartu.livejournal.com]

Aside from thinking that it is crap and agreeing with the sentiments.

It is asinine that I needed to follow 5-6 links to find the source, but still not copy of the proposed changes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/washington/15rule.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1216130828-mMVsk3yVTJEbS8kPyYZOzw&oref=slogin