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Isn’t life in a theocracy grand where science and open thought are laughed into their place and we can impose our will on those Godless heathen liberal states and people who, for some reason, we can’t yet toss out of the country? Especially woman who think they own their bodies? Ha! Good times, good times…
The Bush administration wants to require all recipients of aid under federal health programs to certify that they will not refuse to hire nurses and other providers who object to abortion and even certain types of birth control.
Under the draft of a proposed rule, hospitals, clinics, researchers and medical schools would have to sign “written certifications” as a prerequisite to getting money under any program run by the Department of Health and Human Services.
Such certification would also be required of state and local governments, forbidden to discriminate, in areas like grant-making, against hospitals and other institutions that have policies against providing abortion.
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Mary Jane Gallagher, president of the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, which represents providers, said, “The proposed definition of abortion is so broad that it would cover many types of birth control, including oral contraceptives and emergency contraception.”“We worry that under the proposal, contraceptive services would become less available to low-income and uninsured women,” Ms. Gallagher said.
So if Planned Parenthood objects, they should stop taking government funds.
#61, Lyin’ Mike,
Why? They perform a social service that benefits society for the government. Would you rather the government perform these services itself?
#61–Mikey==In a vacuum, you are right. In the real world, you and the Bushies are wrong:
1. Most healthcare entities take government dollars because they take government patients. Refuse the government money, and its the patients that suffer. Maybe just what BushCo wants?
2. “The Government” is supposed to represent the will of the people. In America the majority of people support a womans right to choose. Its only the totalitarian emperial pretenders of right wing religi-cons that are twisting the government to their own pleasures==all against the constitution and worthy of being impeached for.
I hate this Congress. Impeach Bush, Cheney, Pelosi, Whats his name, vote the rest out of Office.
Sex is a SIN!!! right?
See you all in HELL!!!!
A woman’s right to choose doesn’t mean the government pays for it. Here they are standing up for religious freedom, also supported by large majorities.
Your right to drive a luxury limo across the country doesn’t mean my tax dollars should pay for the road.
Most of the time when a government program helps an individual, society as a whole benefits. A woman’s right to choose does not mean the government paid for it. If, however, it is a legal medical procedure and her insurance plan pays for legal medical procedures, then there is no reason why that plan should not also pay for an abortion. You might find that the government pays for very few abortions through Planned Parenthood.
BTW, there are no large majorities in favor of abandoning abortion or birth control. Just a few radical wing nuts. As for religious freedom, by allowing religious groups to impose their religious tenets you are denying others their religious beliefs.