When did the White House become the Vatican?
The Bush Administration wants to require all federal health care monies recipients to sign a piece of paper that says they’ll not discriminate in hiring those who oppose abortion. If these organizations don’t sign, they don’t get federal health care money.
The even bigger problem with this is that the HHS memo defines abortion in such a way as to include any form of birth control that could possibly prevent implantation of a conceptus (fertilized ovum). It trumps state laws that require all hospitals to provide/offer emergency contraception to rape victims. From the NY Times article yesterday:
The proposal defines abortion as follows: “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.”
This bothers me to no end. I have no problem with a doctor or other medical professional not wanting to perform abortions, but I have a huge problem with extending the definition of abortion to include most forms of birth control. In doing this we’re granting the right to refuse to provide women with necessary medical treatment.
Sorry folks, but if you do not agree with providing birth control you shouldn’t be a pharmacist or work in the OB/GYN field. Birth control comes with the territory and if you feel that providing needed care goes against your religious beliefs then perhaps you’ve chosen the wrong field of practice.
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