Now I have your attention, let me start by saying that the restriction of access to contraception is exactly what the new federal policy proposed by the Bush administration is not so. With the definition of emergency contraception and IUDs as abortion, what the Board wants you and your grandmother to think they are doing is limiting access to abortion. Tell your grandmother that you do not. It is nothing more than a politicalexpedient for the right wing, conservative Christian power base. That this new policy actually do is to limit federal funding for hospitals that refuse to hire services of personnel who refuse to provide abortions. Sound confusing? In other words, this means that if you are a hospital that receives federal funds, you can not discriminate against providers who refuse to provide abortion services (abortion is defined as above). Butare already federal laws prohibiting such discrimination in the place! The only additional requirement that the new rule to enforce these hospitals (if they want to keep their funding) to declare in writing that they comply with federal laws already in force. It 's a proposal that has been carefully designed to do nothing!
The impact has been in the fashion of Shakespeare's farce. Instead of ignoring this nonregulation Democrats have seized on the proposalas an opportunity to strike again - as "... a dangerous assault on women's health."
No one is more in favor of providing contraceptives and family planning services to me. But please, let us ensure that the battles we fight are significant. A federal ban on partial-birth abortion, for example, could have the effect of a severe limitation on the medical potential for a wife to manage the complications during the second quarter of itspregnancy. The current proposal does not mess with the legality of abortion or contraception or laws currently in force in 14 states that the women need access to emergency contraception. It may contain one or two pharmacists reactionary losing their jobs and will certainly generate additional paperwork, but in the grand scheme of things, I think progressives can live.
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