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

So, I stop at the convenience store today on the way home from taking my daughter to the doctor and this man behind me mutters something incoherent. I turned and ask "Pardon?" ... he says "don't mind me, I was just talking to myself". I replied ... "oh, that's okay, I talk to myself all the time". So, I turn back around to complete my purchase and the man behind me takes a few steps forward, grabs my very long braid (knee-length) and say "Man, if I had a pair of scissors *snip*snip*SNIP*" as he's making snipping motions with his other hands. Without hesitating I turned around and said "you'd be dead before my hair would even hit the floor" and turned around and walked out.

WTF?! What on earth possesses people to be so ugly - so mean spirited?! What an asshole. First off, I don't like random people grabbing my hair, second - I don't know what would possess someone to say that -- not the typical "why don't you donate it", nothing *argh*