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When I was watchng Persepolis, I didn’t know whether I should be relieved that our country had not gone so far to the right or appalled that we had already given in so much to our own fundamentalists on women’s issues.
This news, from Suburban Guerrilla, is not reassuring:
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) and Patty Murray (D-WA) today called on the Secretary of Health and Human Services to stop misguided plans to put in place new obstacles for women accessing family planning services. This proposed rule change is a poorly-veiled attempt to roll-back women’s health care options before the current Administration leaves office.
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One of the most troubling aspects of the proposed rules is the overly-broad definition of “abortion.” This definition would allow health-care corporations or individuals to classify many common forms of contraception – including the birth control pill, emergency contraception and IUDs – “abortions” and therefore to refuse to provide contraception to women who need it.
The question here is not just birth control but who has control of a woman’s body.
Your thinking here should be along the lines of “First they came for late-term abortions…” This sh1t has to stop.
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5 Comments
1. MSW replies at 17th July 2008, 2:29 am :
I saw this very issue being discussed a day or two ago on one of the Livejournal communities I lurk in. It’s chilling that anyone could even think that this is an appropriate law to pass. I don’t know too many of the specifics, so I don’t know how much chance this has of going into effect. But for this to even be considered is so far beyond disgusting that I can’t even find the words for it. I definitely agree. This nonsense needs to be stopped.
2. Tommy replies at 17th July 2008, 9:17 am :
I don’t know that they can snow the public quite as easily now as they did when they killed Plan B by calling it an abortifacient. Not a whole lot of people knew a lot about Plan B and how it works.
With any luck, many more people are going to understand that the pill and the IUD are not abortions.
I also notice that no mention of condoms are made. Sure, *they’re* not abortions. They also happen to be the most common form of male contraception. No double standards here, nosirree.
3. Jessie Carty replies at 17th July 2008, 3:45 pm :
Persepolis is amazing but it is scary when you hear the number of people going on about how this country needs to be returned to being a “christain nation” and what that could entail.
4. Max replies at 17th July 2008, 9:46 pm :
Hummmmm!
Don’t know. Don’t reckon they’ll take Jesse Jackson’s assertion about Bama, and neuter men?!
Please excuse me. Had a long day, hauled the horse to the horse doctor today (From Chesapeake to Ashland VA, took most of it. Had a good diagnosis though, so have to say, it went well.
5. sherry replies at 18th July 2008, 7:27 am :
Excuse me, too, Max. I’d prefer that Obama grow a pair when it comes to women’s issues in particular and the liberal agenda in general.
I like men but I never have wanted anybody telling me what to do with my own body. That’s when we get into repression and I don’t think it has anything to do with Christianity as I understand it.
By the way, I heard on NPR last night that about one woman an hour (an hour!) dies of spousal abuse in Russia. And the law protects the husband. So women really do have to watch these things.
I’m glad the horse had a good diagnosis. You are a good guy!
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