wholly lifted from echoegami

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Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt recently proposed a radical federal regulation change that would allow doctors to knowingly withhold information from their patients about widely accepted medical treatment options like birth control, emergency contraception, and abortion services. Even worse, 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.

Currently the Department of Health and Human Services has an official 30-day comment period -- it ends September 25. (My understanding is that after that it becomes a rule, but I’m not sure—feel free to correct this if you find out differently when you forward to people.)

And please, please spread the word.

The following link takes you to the Planned Parenthood campaign that provides suggested text and forwards an email to the "correct" location....

http://www.ppaction.org/campaign/frcp08_adv1/wkbb63sro86xti5?source=enews_sept08_ppolft

Comments

[typhoid.livejournal.com]

I really think that we need to produce some equally-motivated leftists. To combat all of the psychos that murder abortion doctors, can we start murdering the FUCKS that do this?

/ok so I'm angry.

[xcorvis.livejournal.com]

Rarely am I pissed off enough to actually give money, but I am today.

[maatnofret.livejournal.com]

Thanks for spreading the word. I left my comment days ago.

[daedala.livejournal.com]

I wrote.

I'd be lying if I said stuff like this wasn't part of the reason I got sterilized. Not the only one by far, but the uncertainty of access when I needed it worried me.

[evaluna68.livejournal.com]

I wrote, too, adding a bit about how how in a country founded in part on the right to believe in any religion, or none at all, I really don't appreciate some people using their religious beliefs to keep me from making informed decisions about matters which have the potential to cause me great physical harm, or even kill me.

If it gets less loony around here later, I will see if I can ask someone about rulemaking, comment periods, and how they work - I should know that stuff anyway.