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A White House proposal aimed at protecting health-care workers who object to abortion and some birth-control methods has escalated a debate over the balance between religious freedom and patients’ rights.
HHS Moves to Define Contraception as Abortion - Yahoo! News.
Just because I hear Hillary Clinton say it, doesn’t mean I’m going to actually believe it. Less so, actually. However, it does appear that HHS is moving to redefine a couple of things.
To put it in English, it’sa variant of the Intelligent Design argument.
Most people accept that pregnancy takes place when a sperm meets an egg and they do the chacha. Since at this moment, there’s no actual test to determine if an egg has actually been fertilized, the moment of conception happens at an undetermined time, according to this new argument.
So, ALL sexually active women are potentially pregnant! Right Now. At this very moment.
Since all women are pregnant RIGHT NOW, anybody working for a clinic that receives federal money, even Medicaid, can deny contraception to a woman based on that argument, and the love of the Baby Jesus in their pretty green eyes.
All of this is also based on the argument that hormonally based birth control–like most of the stuff normal women use–prevent a fertilized egg from attaching to the womb. There isn’t any hard data that supports this, in fact, Pro Life physicians wrote an open letter in 1999 saying essentially the opposite.
This is designed to strip away what HHS calls a discrimination of conscience. Based on the individuals (or institutions) belief of when life begins, this should be the primary factor in determining what constitutes abortion, they say.
Mark my words, if this is allowed to pass, the next grass-roots movement will be Born Again Cruaders protesting abortion clinics and Planned Parenthood from the other side of the door, where they wouldn’t be allowed to protest today, but for the fact they got a job there JUST SO THEY COULD DO THAT VERY THING. I guarantee that’s in the head of some Compass of Morality right now.
I’m not sure that’s a good idea. Do you?
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