In his final hour, President Bush is trying to sneak in a last-minute regulation that Senator Hillary Clinton says would "threaten patients' rights, stand in the way of health care professionals and restrict access to critical health care services for those who need them most."
Bush's new ruling under the Health and Human Services (HHS) would allow health care organizations that receive federal funding to refuse to provide abortion or contraceptives based on "religious or moral grounds."
This regulation threatens patients' right to comprehensive health care and would critically undermine health care facilities with a commitment to provide patients with options. The rule could nullify state laws that require hospitals to offer emergency contraception to rape victims. It would also allow pharmacy employees to refuse to fill prescriptions for contraceptives based solely on personal beliefs.
Clinton and Senator Patty Murray just introduced a bill to stop this ruling, the Protecting Patients and Health Care Act. Urge Congress to pass this bill immediately to overrule President Bush's dangerous regulation!
We took action on “Congress Must Stop Bush's Sneak-Attack on Reproductive Health Services”!
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11:25 am PST, Jan 28,Maranda White, Michigan
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7:11 am PST, Jan 28,Hubert Delgrange, France
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5:16 pm PST, Jan 27,Wendy Miller, Texas
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4:56 pm PST, Jan 27,Patricia MacHado, Arizona
I am deeply disturbed by the latest rulings of the Bush Administration. By giving health care employees (doctors, nurses, practitioners, medical office secretaries, etc) the power to "judge" a patient and deny him/her the rights to health care -- based on the employees own moral or religious grounds -- is not only an absurd but also a breach of the patient's civil rights. HIV treatment, abortion, morning-after pill, RU486, and other contraceptives are legal and must be readily available to patients who seek them. Patients must be promptly attended and not be discriminated against.
I'm also appalled at the forty four million dollars it will cost American citizens to implement this regulation
I urge you to sponsor the Protecting Patients and Health Care Act to stop this dangerous regulation.
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11:05 am PST, Jan 25,Michael Goodin, California
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10:42 am PST, Jan 25,Christine Bolton, New York
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7:06 am PST, Jan 25,MaryLou Briski, Florida
This is unconciable.
Please support repealing it.
Thank you.
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7:03 am PST, Jan 25,Nichole Cottington, New Mexico
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6:12 am PST, Jan 25,Nanette Schieron, Massachusetts
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6:03 am PST, Jan 25,Barry Tillis, Florida
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5:24 am PST, Jan 25,Ruth Blackwell, Virginia
I think this is outrageous. This law is putting people especially women back in time when we should be going forward. This is the 21st century not the 19th0r 20th centuries.Again, We need to go forward not backwards.
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3:59 pm PST, Jan 24,MJ Ramos, Connecticut
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10:40 am PST, Jan 24,Cema Thld, Mexico
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4:39 pm PST, Jan 23,Mieke Bernaards, Belgium
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4:51 am PST, Jan 23,Jackie Borgeson, Minnesota
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1:42 am PST, Jan 22,Erin A Mitchell, Nebraska
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2:46 am PST, Jan 21,Ned Overton, New York
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10:03 pm PST, Jan 20,Hannah Raines, Tennessee
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2:27 am PST, Jan 20,Steve Klein, Canada
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6:20 pm PST, Jan 19,Jessica Rhine, Georgia
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3:08 pm PST, Jan 19,Brittany Blackwood, Colorado
How would you like it if you were raped and found out you had to take care of a baby you got pregnant with and still know that you could have had the oppourtunity to get the of the burden and be on the road of recovery, but instead you have to take of someone that you werent ready for, not very much i think. plus its not someone elses decision for you to get an abortion or not especially if they base it soley on their opinions.
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7:07 pm PST, Jan 18,Serena Wyatt, California
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8:11 pm PST, Jan 17,Paige Fraga, Arizona
As a person with a disability, a mother and having a teen age daughter this legislation is very close to my heart. It concerns me greatly that healthcare workers and organizations could deny care, medications, etc. on the basis of their religious belief, while we as average citizens would have no recourse for care. I urge you to reverse this legislation immediately.
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7:26 am PST, Jan 17,Janice Wernimont, Florida
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6:28 am PST, Jan 17,Jane Riese, New Mexico
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3:19 pm PST, Jan 16,Janice Davis, Indiana
patients' rights to comprehensive health care. We need to have health care and poor people out there don't have any
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11:24 am PST, Jan 16,Name not displayed, Wisconsin
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5:34 pm PST, Jan 15,Suzie Gordon, New Hampshire
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3:02 pm PST, Jan 15,Name not displayed, Serbia And Montenegro
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11:45 am PST, Jan 15,Jeff Bay, New York
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6:16 am PST, Jan 14,D. E-Platt, Pennsylvania
As a woman & a mother to a daughter, I am deeply disturbed by the latest rulings of the Bush Administration. First & foremost my right & the right of every woman to privacy in terms of the ability to reproduce or not should belong to us - not the federal government.
Who is most affected by an unwanted pregnancy afterall? It is a woman. If an adolescent becomes pregnant this ruling would force a young girl - who's body is not truely ready to safely carry a pregnancy to risk her life. If in fact she is able to make it safely through to delivery then there are the challenges of raising another child, either in the girl's family, or giving it up.
For a woman who is raped or in a bad marriage, or who just made a mistake in getting involved with a man has to pay the price of that moment in time in which she got pregnant for the rest of her life!
Aside from all this is the issue of overpopulation in the world - and the economic impact - as well as environmental impact of having more children come into the world.
There must be safe & affordable birth control, easy to obtain birth control & availability to recieve an medically safe abortion when a woman decides FOR HERSELF
that she doesn't want to carry a pregnancy to term. No government, or man, should have the right to force a woman to have a child she does not want. It is pure & simply reproductive slavery for women when they are pressured legally or otherwise to have a baby.
