Ban birth control?
Almond
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What do y'all think about this article? I've heard the issue discussed a couple of times, and was wondering what the Strutter opinion might sound like.b,121b,121b,121b,121http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...l&sn=003&sc=470b,121b,121Banning birth controlb,121b,121Not content with its incremental battle on abortion, the Bush administration has now decided that it's time to limit women's access to birth control.b,121More Opinionb,121b,121The Department of Health and Human Services is circulating the draft of a regulation that would allow health care professionals and institutions to refuse to provide women access to some of the most common forms of contraception, under the auspices that such contraception is a form of abortion. The purpose of the draft rule is to pre-empt state laws that have protected women's ability to get birth control at pharmacies where a particular pharmacist refuses to fill these prescriptions.b,121b,121"It's an effort to try to stigmatize contraception and family planning," said Marcia Greenberger, the co-president of the National Women's Law Center in Washington, D.C. "It should be a clarion call to women and men in this country that a kind of extremist view has begun to take hold - to make even birth control and contraception more difficult to secure, and that it could lead to the same kind of stigmatization that has existed in the case of abortion." (article continues, see link)b,121b,121An online form to send your comments to HHS can be found at http://www.hhs.gov/ContactUs.html.b,121b,121This article appeared on page B - 8 of the San Francisco Chronicle
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