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Birth Control != Abortion
Sep. 19th, 2008 10:44 pmVia ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
xcorvis.
Access to birth control is good, yes? It prevents a significant percentage of what would be unwanted children, abortions, and environmentally caused birth defects. Good. We agree.
Some people hold that birth control is the same thing as abortion. By allowing a health care provider to define abortion, it is a very small extrapolation to health care providers refusing to provide or even discuss birth control options.
This is bad. The possibility that it could happen makes me furious. Women's rights are supposed to be more secure than this.
So do something, even if it's only sending an email. (Trying to get through to leave a comment on their phone line is not very feasible right now.)
Hi,
President Bush has issued a regulatory change that lets health care providers define abortion, which could threaten access to birth control and broader reproductive health care, and allow federal funding for so-called "crisis pregnancy centers" that refuse to inform patients of or provide patients with a full range of reproductive health care options.
There's a 30-day comment period before the new regulation takes effect, during which Planned Parenthood and other groups are raising a massive outcry in defense of women's health care.
The official comment period ends September 25. Can you add your comment today?
http://www.ppaction.org/campaign/frcp08_adv1?source=frcp08ppd2_tafa
When more and more families are uninsured and having difficulty accessing health care at all, and when at least one in four teenage girls has a sexually transmitted disease -- implementing a rule that will limit access to health services is utterly perplexing, unconscionable, and just plain wrong. It will only hurt the women who most need help at times when they are most vulnerable.
I believe it's our job to help stop it. Please join me in telling President Bush "no." Here's the link with all the info you need:
http://www.ppaction.org/campaign/frcp08_adv1?source=frcp08ppd2_tafa
P.S. Planned Parenthood desperately needs our financial support as well to fight this rule change. Consider making an emergency contribution...
Spread it around.
xcorvis.Access to birth control is good, yes? It prevents a significant percentage of what would be unwanted children, abortions, and environmentally caused birth defects. Good. We agree.
Some people hold that birth control is the same thing as abortion. By allowing a health care provider to define abortion, it is a very small extrapolation to health care providers refusing to provide or even discuss birth control options.
This is bad. The possibility that it could happen makes me furious. Women's rights are supposed to be more secure than this.
So do something, even if it's only sending an email. (Trying to get through to leave a comment on their phone line is not very feasible right now.)
Hi,
President Bush has issued a regulatory change that lets health care providers define abortion, which could threaten access to birth control and broader reproductive health care, and allow federal funding for so-called "crisis pregnancy centers" that refuse to inform patients of or provide patients with a full range of reproductive health care options.
There's a 30-day comment period before the new regulation takes effect, during which Planned Parenthood and other groups are raising a massive outcry in defense of women's health care.
The official comment period ends September 25. Can you add your comment today?
http://www.ppaction.org/campaign/frcp08_adv1?source=frcp08ppd2_tafa
When more and more families are uninsured and having difficulty accessing health care at all, and when at least one in four teenage girls has a sexually transmitted disease -- implementing a rule that will limit access to health services is utterly perplexing, unconscionable, and just plain wrong. It will only hurt the women who most need help at times when they are most vulnerable.
I believe it's our job to help stop it. Please join me in telling President Bush "no." Here's the link with all the info you need:
http://www.ppaction.org/campaign/frcp08_adv1?source=frcp08ppd2_tafa
P.S. Planned Parenthood desperately needs our financial support as well to fight this rule change. Consider making an emergency contribution...
Spread it around.