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I couldn’t resist….this is too funny.

Last night, I posted an article asking people to sign a petition going against the idea that birth control is a form of abortion. I know this can be a touchy subject and I’ve already seen where people think this is a lie and there’s no proof, so I went digging for some news article on the subject.

Whether you’re pro-life or pro-choice, I don’t care, but I do use birth control and if that right was to be taken away from me, I don’t know what I would do. We can’t afford to have another child right now and emotionally, neither of us are ready for another one. However, if birth control were to become illegal, that choice would be taken away from me. Condoms are fine and dandy, but they’re not reliable. I want to be sure that when/if I have another child, that’s its our choice. That it wasn’t an “OOPS” and then we have to deal with it.

Abortion at Saddleback Forum: If Life Begins at Conception, What About Contraception? by RHRealityCheck

The Bush Administration is now on record planning to equate contraception with abortion, for the purpose of allowing health care workers to deny patients access to contraception. It is clear the Bush Administration believes that contraception is abortion.

The plight of the lame duck by the Los Angels Times

The White House recently proposed a radical change to the Endangered Species Act that would allow government agencies to bypass a heretofore mandatory scientific review process that evaluates the impact of their actions. The Department of Health and Human Services drafted a new rule that could redefine abortion to include some forms of contraception and allow doctors and pharmacists to deny them to women as they see fit.

Don’t Let Bush Administration Redefine Pregnancy by the Connecticut Courant

But a recent proposal at the federal Department of Health and Human Services threatens to muddy all that. Ostensibly, the proposal seeks to protect health care workers who, for religious or moral reasons, don’t want to participate in abortions. The proposal suggests that for the purposes of health care workers, pregnancy begins when the sperm and the egg are joined, at the act of sex — something with which august bodies such as the American Medical Association, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the British Medical Association disagree. Those groups and others say pregnancy begins when the fertilized egg implants itself into the uterine wall — a few days later that the Bush administration would have it.

New proposal could affect access to birth control WELLNESS by the Fredricksburg Free-Lance Star

The controversy arises because of the draft’s definition of abortion. To quote the proposal, abortion would be redefined as “any of the various procedures–including the prescription, dispensing and administration of any drug or the performance of any procedure or any other action–that results in the termination of the life of a human being in utero between conception and natural birth, whether before or after implantation.

Clinton swears to fight the “insulting” plan of abortion by Cayanmama

Sen. Hillary Clinton commented on the Bush administration’s plan for defining some of the very widely used methods of contraception as “gratuitous, unnecessary insult” to the women.

The former Democratic presidential candidate teamed up with family planning groups in condemning the proposals that define abortion and actually include contraception methods like intrauterine devices and birth control pills. It would cut off federal funds to hospitals and states where medical providers are compelled to offer contraception and legal abortion to women.

This is a touchy subject for me, so I’m not going to say too much other than the fact that this should not happen. I’ve signed the petition and now I’m asking everyone else to do the same thing. Whether you agree with it or not, I’m not trying to get into that discussion, but everyone should know what Bush is trying to do………
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I had to share something with you. Can you imagine living in a place where birth control is considered an “abortion” and health insurers won’t cover it? Where even rape victims are denied emergency contraception?

It seems unbelievable, but the Bush Administration is quietly trying to redefine “abortion” to include birth control. The Houston Chronicle says this could wipe out dozens of state laws that protect women’s reproductive freedom and protect rape victims. And this proposed “rule change” doesn’t need congressional approval.

I just signed a message to Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt, whose department is considering this rule change, telling him: “Contraception is NOT abortion.” Can you add your voice to this cause? Click here to sign the message.

Thanks!