Clinton swears to fight the “insulting” plan of abortion
2008-07-19 14:11:00 (GMT) (Caymanmama.com - Health News News)Dallas, Texas (CaymanMama.com) — On Friday, 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.
The New York senator and the New York Rep. Nita Lowey, a Democrat at Bellevue Hospital, told reporters, “We will not put up with this radical, ideological agenda to turn the clock back on women’s rights.” She further added, “Women would watch their contraceptive coverage disappear overnight.”
The rule has been aimed at countering recent state laws enacted to ensure that women can get contraception when they want or need them. It would also aid in protecting medical providers’ rights to refuse offering the contraception.
Clinton said that she has already written a letter along with Patty Murray, Democrat senator, Washington to the Health and Services Secretary, to Mike Leavitt asking him to reconsider and thereby reject release of proposed rules. In fact, she also urged the people to sign petitions on her site, www.hillpac.com, against proposed changes.
She stated, “Our first effort is to get the Bush administration to rescind the regulation, not issue in its current form, if that doesn’t succeed, and we’re going to be looking for legislative steps that we can take to prevent this regulation from ever going into effect.”
A memo that appears to be a draft of the Department of Health and Human Services provided to the Reuters this week carries a broad definition regarding abortion procedures and prescription drugs.
Anne Davis of Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health said that if the plan was put into place permanently, birth control would not be accessible for some women. “That’s a sure way to guarantee more unintended pregnancies and more abortions.”
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