Help stop health care providers from being able to redefine abortion to include birth control.
The Bush administration promised not to issue any new regulations after November 1. But now, it is poised to implement a rule that could allow individual health care providers to redefine abortion to include the most common forms of birth control — and then refuse to provide these basic services. A woman's ability to manage her own health care is at risk of being compromised by politics and ideology. We need you to speak out now , before the administration implements this rule.
This summer, the Bush administration tried to keep the proposed rule a secret, but with your help, we forced Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt to make the plans public. More than 200,000 people — including more than 90,000 Planned Parenthood supporters like you, and more than 150 members of Congress — called on the Bush administration to withdraw this damaging proposal that could keep millions of people from receiving basic health information and necessary medical care.
This new rule could allow almost 600,000 health care entities that receive federal funding to redefine abortion to include the most common forms of birth control — and then refuse to provide these basic services. For any health provider to intentionally withhold information about widely embraced treatment options from a patient — for any health condition — is absolutely unconscionable under any circumstances. It’s outrageous that President Bush is using his last days in office to implement a rule that would limit the rights of patients to receive complete and accurate reproductive health information.
A woman's ability to manage her own health care is at risk of being compromised by politics and ideology if this regulation goes into effect.
The exam room is no place to play political games.
Learn more about the opposition to the rule.
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Gawd, no! Freak! This cannot be happening again!
Please also consider posting comments to Leavitt's blog. The address is: http://secretarysblog.hhs.gov/my_weblog/2008/08/physician-con-2.html?cid=139519016#comments
Currently, most of the posters are in favor of the proposal.
I wish we/the people could just tell Bush to- put his hands up- in the air where we can see them; don't touch anything else, drop the damn pen, now back the F out- please!!! On ~ The Rachel Maddow Show~ on MSNBC, it's a little new still I guess, but it's really great! She has a "Lame duck watch" on Bush called "Quackitude" that's just taylor made for this sort of thing... She also did mention that Bush's staff messed up on some of these um- changes, because they missed the dead line of 05/08 lol... This is just the perfect ~Rachel Maddow topic ~ womens rights~ and the fact that Bush is still trying to take them away!!! A few e-mails to her to get a little sunshine on this, before it slips through... Thx