Sonofabitch shrubbery!

[lunadelcorvo]

The fucker did it. He passed the legislation 'protecting' health care workers from OH NOES! having to do their frikkin' jobs, and prescribe or dispense not only abortion services, but IUDs, hormone based contraceptives, and emergency contraception as well. This is couched as a freedom of speech measure for the religious, supposedly forced into providing services they "find repugnant." What it is however, is a way to get legislation on the books which classifies any birth control which prevents implantation of a fertilized ovum (like the pill, Norplant, IUDs, etc.) as "abortion."

Like so many pieces of seemingly innocent (not that this is innocent - if you are going to be an OB/GYN and not prescribe birth control you have no damn business with a license) legislation snuck under the radar, the sole purpose of this is a wedge. A little inroad, hidden in the piles of verbiage, that has the potential to be picked up later, and assembled into a weapon. It's the little bit of plastic hidden in the soap sent to the prisoner; almost undetectable, but when later gathered and ordered, can be deadly. Goddammit!

Read the whole story HERE and more about the bill here and here.

Start writing letters to Obama now, and let's hope this crap gets overturned immediately with the new administration.

Also, see this post for more on my thoughts on this...

Comments

[sorshawolf.livejournal.com]

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[belleweather.livejournal.com]

It's not legislation, it's a regulation. Obama can overturn it basically with a wave of his hand. It sucks and it's asstastic, but given the reproductive rights agenda of the new administration it's also basically dead on arrival.

[sinmantyx.livejournal.com]

Birth control pills and emergency contraceptive DO NOT (at all) prevent the implantation of a fertilized egg. There is NO reason to believe that they do - it makes no biological sense.

However, it cannot be PROVEN that they don't because it's impossible to tell whether or not they do. You can do studies to show that they are effective - and you can do studies to show that birth control pills do not harm implanted fertilized eggs. However, it's my understanding that trying to show (empirically) that hormonal birth control doesn't effect the implantation of an egg is simply not possible.

For example, when I open the refrigerator door, the light turns on. I can either assume that there is some sort of switch that turns it on, or an invisible elf. You certainly can't PROVE that it isn't an invisible elf, so I suppose that I should be charged with owning an elf slave.

[samuraiartguy.livejournal.com]

Since WHEN did this Administration let actual SCIENCE get in the way of political agenda?

[raven-moon.livejournal.com]

You know that. I know that. Hell, even THEY know that. But truth and policy are entirely perpendicular.... If you control the definition of a thing, you control the thing, and that is what this is all about....

[samuraiartguy.livejournal.com]

Seems the Shubbery is intent on leaving a "leagacy" of sort. But you've already seem My rant on his chest-beating on the use of the military and pre-emptive war. Which is reprehensible on the very face of it.

Rantage: [ http://samuraiartguy.livejournal.com/147826.html ]

[raven-moon.livejournal.com]

I am sure we have not sen the last of the crop he'll throw up... like dropping caltrop on Obama's path, the childish, nasty, petty, mo-fo.... Grrr.

And yes, I did see your post, and agree wholeheartedly!

I'm gonna choke a bitch in a Palpenesian minute...

[mellifluous-ink.livejournal.com]

God fucking damn it, why are people pretty much making me immigrate? Do they even know how hard it is to become a citizen somewhere else???

Gah, I can only rant verbally about this with any coherence, right now.

[mellifluous-ink.livejournal.com]

Also, I find it immensely hypocritical that the RR doesn't take into account that the human body itself (or God, whatever) pretty much aborts most of the pregnancies it starts. Doesn't that make God the biggest abortionist of them all, by their definition of God?

[raven-moon.livejournal.com]

As I said above, truth and policy are ever at cross-purposes. They know what you mentioned is the case, but it's all about definition - control the definition and you command the thing defined....

[lucretiasheart.livejournal.com]

I've been keeping track of this one-- and it's just-- INCREDIBLY infuriating! Just-- AAAAAAAHG!

[celtickittenmew.livejournal.com]

Whoever said that the pen is mightier than the sword was correct, if in fact they were referring to the rights of the shrubbery to tell higher life forms how to deal with life's little un-wanted possibilities and meant to drive us all to drink. Cheers?