Bush taking aim at birth control!!!!!!

[medeak]

Dear ,
In a final act, the Bush Administration is mounting one last attack on a woman's right to choose. They've issued a rule that could allow individual healthcare providers to redefine abortion to include common forms of birth control and then refuse to provide them. This would be a huge setback for women's rights. Please take action now. Join Planned Parenthood and make it clear to the Department of Health and Human Services that you will not stand for undermining women's access to birth control.

Don Hazen
Executive Editor, AlterNet.org





Dear AlterNet reader,

These are serious times for all of us who are pro-choice and pro-women. We need your help, plain and simple.

You see, even before John McCain selected as his running mate the virulently anti-choice Sarah Palin - a woman who doesn't trust other women to make their own decisions about childbearing - Planned Parenthood Action Fund was already fighting a Bush administration attack on women's health care and reproductive rights that has put Planned Parenthood and the people it serves in the fight of our lives.

Just three weeks ago, the Bush administration issued a rule that would limit the rights of patients to receive complete and accurate reproductive health information when they visit the doctor. It's more of the Bush administration's bad medicine, and we need your help to stop it.

This new rule could allow individual health care providers to redefine abortion to include the most common forms of birth control - and then refuse to provide them. A woman's ability to manage her own health care is at risk of being compromised by politics and ideology. We have until September 25 to voice our opposition. Please, click here to help Planned Parenthood fight back by sending your comments to the Department of Health and Human Services.

My mother, Ann Richards, the former governor of Texas and a remarkable feminist leader, would have been downright outraged right now. She would have seen this rule as a desperate parting gift from Bush to the extreme anti-choice groups that have his ear - with no regard for the devastating impact on women's health.

We have a lot of work to do from now until November 4. First up: We have until September 25 to voice our opposition to the Bush administration rule, and the clock is already ticking. Please take a moment right now to add your name to the hundreds of thousands of others who will not stand by and let this happen without a fight.

And then, the presidential election. As I'm sure you know, the stakes in this election just got unbelievably higher. More than ever before, the November 4 election is the most important vote for women's rights of my generation. And our actions in the next eight weeks - yours, mine, the Planned Parenthood Action Fund's - have never been more critical. Believe me, I don't say that lightly. It's time to get to work - and hard.

Thank you for standing up with us, as always.




Sincerely,


Cecile Richards, President
Planned Parenthood Action Fund

[medeak]

1. Sign petition here!!!!!

http://www.ppaction.org/campaign/frcp08afgt?qp_source=frcp08afgt%5fe1a

[Ohio Joe]

6. Signed and donated - nt

[LeftinOH]

2. Its always been about more than abortion..their next-in-line target is "abortifacients"

..which could be defined as anything which prevents pregnancy from occurring. Scary shit.

[Benhurst]

3. Too bad Bristol Palin didn't have access to it. She obviouisly needed

it.

[liberal N proud]

4. I would think that all insurance companies would push birth control

The cost of 12 months supply of birth control pills is much cheaper than the medical bills for the extra people they cover.

For instance, a typical corporate health care insurance program had the option of single or family coverage.

Family coverage included anyone related to the employee living in the house under the age of 18.
Caring for two people under that family coverage is more profitable than 3 or more.

They are sure quick to make sure you have those kids off your insurance once they are no longer eligible.

[Jim__]

5. Birth control is where it started - Griswold v Connecticut - 1965.

It figures they'll go back to that.

[Wilber_Stool]

7. Done......n/t

[medeak]

8. please send to everyone in address book

Secretary Leavitt (fecking Mormon) also backed Bush on veto of child heathcare

[kestrel91316]

9. I've been saying for 20 years that the RW wasn't gonna stop at outlawing

abortion. People laughed.

[RebelOne]

10. Done, but unfortunately, I am unable to contribute. n/t

[libodem]

11. Why is it that the Republicans

want to punish any and all of our natural drives? The sex drive is so powerful and so difficult to resist for some people, both male and female, especially after it has been tried and tested. It s almost as if there is no turning back, after one fools around. To just tell people to use will power and not make any mistakes is so cruel. Punish the people in Alabama, with higher insurance rates, for gaining weight, punish the under 21 year old crowd for drinking. Punish the people who have the audacity to experiment with mind altering substances. I'm sick of being treated like like an idiot that has no right to make any decisions regarding what I do with my body and with whom. Hey, all you anti government bastids: go legislate somebody else's morality. Oh yeah BTW why not leave the prostitution alone too. Maybe it will keep the perverts off of the young girls and boys, who are afraid to say no to dirty old men, who groom them for their own sick gratification. Burn all the witches. :sarcasm: