Bush Administration Launches Final Attack on Women’s Health

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http://www.plannedparenthood.org/issues-action/birth-control/title-x-family-planning-funding/bushs-attack-womens-health-still-bad-medicine-23106.htm


The Bush administration just implemented a rule that will allow individual health care providers to redefine abortion to include the most common forms of birth control — and then refuse to provide these basic services. A woman's ability to manage her own health care is at risk of being compromised by politics and ideology.

More than 200,000 people — including more than 90,000 Planned Parenthood supporters like you, and 150 members of Congress — called on the Bush administration to withdraw this damaging proposal that could keep millions of low-income and uninsured people from receiving basic health information and necessary medical care.

But the administration didn’t listen. Its new rule will allow the more than 600,000 health providers who receive federal funding to redefine abortion to include the most common forms of birth control — and then refuse to provide these basic services. For any health provider to intentionally withhold information about widely embraced treatment options from a patient — for any health condition — is absolutely unconscionable under any circumstances. It’s outrageous that President Bush is using his last days in office to implement a rule that would limit the rights of patients to receive complete and accurate reproductive health information.

A woman's ability to manage her own health care is at risk of being compromised by politics and ideology.

The exam room is no place to play political games.
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[SammyWinstonJack]

1. K&R

[liberalmuse]

2. Bush is going out with a big, 'Fuck You!'

to women and nature. Obama is coming in with a big 'Fuck You!' to gays. I'm sick of it all.

[tanyev]

7. SOP for that SOB

Bush's goodbye to the G8 summit:

George Bush surprised world leaders with a joke about his poor record on the environment as he left the G8 summit in Japan.

The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate change, ended a private meeting with the words: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."

He then punched the air while grinning widely, as the rest of those present including Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/2277298/President-George-Bush-'Goodbye-from-the-world's-biggest-polluter'.html

[RC]

3. Doesn't Obama have a crew looking at bu$h's Signing Statements and executive orders and such, with

the idea of rescinding them?

[PearliePoo2]

8. Yes...and it's going to be a l-o-n-g painstaking process..but they are already "on it".

Ferreting out all the evil these fucking rat-bastards have invoked will be a Herculean job.
Gawd..how I hate them.
(mods..can we get a "middle finger" salute smilie?)

[katandmoon]

4. And as I've asked before -- has Obama issued any statement on this huge and deliberate injustice?

I've tried to find any but have come up empty.

[kath]

5. crickets...

sadly.

[RC]

10. Obama is too busy reaching across the aisle.

[fascisthunter]

6. what a mean spirited, spiteful, and hateful little man

for anyone not to see how bad a man he is, they are lost.

[lunatica]

9. Should women just wait to fight this in the next elections?

Women should just accept this treatment and reach out to the perpetrators of these bigoted and sexist rules and stop with their pet issues and banshee screaming about every little thing!

Women should just wait until a better time to object to these new rules.

Woman need to reach out more, be more inclusivng, more understanding. Or conversely women shouldn't be so reactive and they should bide their time because it's really inconvenient right now, what with the inauguration and all. Obama will get to it in time.



:sarcasm: