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Bush & Co Want to Label Contraception “Abortion” |
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Yesterday Hillary Clinton appeared in the Huffington Post lambasting the Bush Administration for a truly heinous set of health regulations announced to members of Congress last week:
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is poised to put in place new barriers to accessing common forms of contraception like birth control pills, emergency contraception and IUDs by labeling them “abortion.” These proposed regulations set to be released next week will allow healthcare providers to refuse to provide contraception to women who need it. We can’t let them get away with this underhanded move to undermine women’s health and that’s why I am sounding the alarm.
Clinton also spoke passionately against the regulations in New York last week, calling it a “gratuitous, unnecessary insult” to American women. She and about 100 other legislators have sent a letter to George Bush demanding that he stop advancing the regulations, and Clinton has started an online petition to challenge the proposal.
For those of you who missed it last week, see if McCain’s gripping response to whether he agreed with (his own surrogate) Carly Fiorina’s criticism of health insurance companies that cover Viagra but not birth control inspires any confidence at all that he will depart from the Bush policy on birth control:
Doesn’t know enough? Comforting, as McSame “has voted twice against mandating insurance companies to provide coverage for birth control, once in 2003 and again in 2005.”
Setting aside the outrageousness of a candidate unwilling to jump to womens’ defense and insist they be given free access to birth control, what is anyone doing even considering a candidate who cannot/will not remember that he (a) has a position on an issue and (b) has voted on it twice? Frankly, if this is McCain’s idea of engaging in discussion and showing leadership the people of Arizona (and all Americans) would be better served having a Labrador represent them in Washington.
Obama on the other hand, like Clinton, can remember where he stands on issues AND supports requiring insurance companies to cover birth control. Quite the accomplishment, apparently.
For more on how the HHS Dept is railing on womens’ reproductive rights see here .
