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Thread #114168 Message #2434501
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
08-Sep-08 - 04:47 PM
Thread Name: BS: Break the law-separation of church & state
Subject: RE: BS: Break the law-separation of church & state
The IRS only goes after "liberal" churches.
I got a thing in the mail today from Planned Parenthood--Bush is trying to pull all sorts of stunts on his way out the door.
The Bush Administration is rushing through a "parting gift" to anti-choice extremists that would deny women access to family planning information and services.
Last month, a draft was leaked of a proposed regulation that included a sweeping new definition of abortion meant to include common forms of contraception, such as birth control pills.
While this rule lacks the radical re-definition of abortion—in fact, it doesn't define it at all—it is as bad as anticipated. With no clear definition, the door is open for medical providers and organizations to define abortion however they want—and too many consider contraception and abortion to be the same thing!
This is good news to Karen Brauer, president of Pharmacists for Life, who told the Wall Street Journal, "It would be pretty excellent if states lost federal funding over laws requiring pharmacists to fill birth control prescriptions."
You deserve complete care when you come into a doctor's office or pharmacy!
What's At Stake?
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a proposed rule supposedly reinforcing existing federal laws that allow doctors and nurses to refuse to provide abortion and sterilization services. However, it goes much further than that.
The Administration wants to give health care providers who receive federal funds the right to refuse to provide any service or information for which they have objections—without having to tell patients such services exists or giving them a referral to another provider.
The proposed rule is so broad it would allow any health care employee to deny services to a patient, even receptionists hired to make appointments.
Even worse, providers such as Planned Parenthood would be forced to employ people who refuse to provide family planning services—or risk losing government funding!