Bush Bureaucrats at Dept. of Health and Human Services Redefine Contraception as Abortion
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT
by Meg White
We're all familiar with the popular chant among conservatives that "life begins at conception." But does that mean our government can say that life ends at contraception?
Apparently, yes, if a proposal from the Department of Health and Human Services that carefully redefines contraception as abortion is adopted.
The religious fervor is carefully hidden in the minutia. The leaked proposal initially reads as a defense of healthcare providers who fear being discriminated against for refusing to provide services that are contrary to their religious beliefs. Basically, just because a clinic or insurance plan receives federal funding "does not authorize any court or any public official or other public authority to require" the entity to provide or pay for services such as sterilization or abortion.
Which seems somewhat harmless, until you change the meaning of abortion to include contraceptive medicines that 40 percent of women in the U.S. use regularly.
Some conservatives argue that contraceptives could cause a woman to unwittingly release a fertilized egg during menstruation. But most doctors do not consider pregnancy to have begun at such a point.
(Continued here.)
by Meg White
We're all familiar with the popular chant among conservatives that "life begins at conception." But does that mean our government can say that life ends at contraception?
Apparently, yes, if a proposal from the Department of Health and Human Services that carefully redefines contraception as abortion is adopted.
The religious fervor is carefully hidden in the minutia. The leaked proposal initially reads as a defense of healthcare providers who fear being discriminated against for refusing to provide services that are contrary to their religious beliefs. Basically, just because a clinic or insurance plan receives federal funding "does not authorize any court or any public official or other public authority to require" the entity to provide or pay for services such as sterilization or abortion.
Which seems somewhat harmless, until you change the meaning of abortion to include contraceptive medicines that 40 percent of women in the U.S. use regularly.
Some conservatives argue that contraceptives could cause a woman to unwittingly release a fertilized egg during menstruation. But most doctors do not consider pregnancy to have begun at such a point.
(Continued here.)
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