President George W. Bush strikes again and he strikes big (and we’re not talking about oil, people). It’s becoming more and more apparent that he wants to go down as the most disliked president in history. Since the beginning of time, it has been clear that mixing religion with politics is not what this country was founded on, however, Bush tries to interweave his religious beliefs with governing the United States, very subtly following a third world country’s footsteps.As posted in Reuters.com, the Bush administration plan is set to define several widely used contraception methods as abortion. And according to Sen. Hillary Clinton, this is a “gratuitous, unnecessary insult” to women. Joining family planning groups to block this proposal, if they are unable to stop Bush’s team, “federal funds to hospitals and states where medical providers are obligated to offer legal abortion and contraception to women would be cut off.”
“We will not put up with this radical, ideological agenda to turn the clock back on women’s rights,” the New York senator told a joint news conference with New York Rep. Nita Lowey, also a Democrat, at Bellevue Hospital.
“Women would watch their contraceptive coverage disappear overnight,” continued Clinton.
Reuters attained a copy of a memo drafted by the Department of Health and Human Services, which defines abortion as “the result in the termination of the life of a human being in utero between conception and natural birth, whether before or after implantation.”
Since birth control methods “interfere” with the fertilized egg implants in the uterus, the Bush administration considers this an abortion. And surely, if birth control vanishes, more unwanted pregnancies will take its place.
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July 19th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
this is insane an utterly ridiculous. By that logic if a man masturbates its abortion. Cause if the sperm doesn’t matter in masturbation then it does not matter in their opinion as well.
July 22nd, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Good point Sam. I can deal with anything but when they start threatening my one-armed aerobics…that’s when I get mad!!!!!
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Oh my god this is so stupid! Can you imagine all the unwanted pregnancies and “back alley abortions” that would take place if this passes. Good thing I know it won’t happen.
No women is stupid enough to agree.
That is so retarded seriously!!! How in the world?
Birth Control stops you from ovulating. It is not destroying a zygote/fetus/baby (whatever you want to call it).
I didn’t vote for him and his stupidity in the first place! Al Gore was my way to go… Same with Kerry. But no one listened. LOL
I can’t wait til he is out of office…
UHGGGG X(
August 4th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Yes Bush has made some serious mistakes but it scares me to think what lame ass Kerry would have done while facing the same issues. BTW - If you were voting for Kerry I guess you also supported Edwards and the love child he conceived while his wife was battling cancer. What a piece of work. Nice ticket there Joshilan. You are a great judge of character.
August 12th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you down the road!
August 26th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
What about those of us with endometriosis? We take birth control to stop menstural suffering- surely they will not refuse it for medical necessity?!?!
November 8th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
First of all the pill doesn’t allow the egg to be produced, therefore no fertilization. The IUD kills the sperm, again no fertilization. It looks like we need more education and not religion.
November 10th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Sharon A.
I totally agree with you I think that it would be a much bigger issue for debate if there was fertilization… Definitely more education and not religion.