Thursday, July 24, 2008
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Bushies to Outlaw Popular Birth Control Methods by Administrative Rule
Result will be more paternity suits and unwanted children.
Clinton vows to fight "insulting" abortion plan
By Michelle Nichols Fri Jul 18, 7:59 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Bush administration plan to define several widely used contraception methods as abortion is a "gratuitous, unnecessary insult" to women and faces tough opposition, Sen. Hillary Clinton said on Friday.
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The former Democratic presidential candidate joined family planning groups to condemn the proposal that defines abortion to include contraception such as birth control pills and intrauterine devices.
It would cut off federal funds to hospitals and states where medical providers are obligated to offer legal abortion and contraception to women.
"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," said Clinton.
The planned rule is aimed at countering recent state laws enacted to ensure that women can get contraception when they want or need it. It also would help protect the rights of medical providers to refuse to offer contraception.
Clinton said she has written a letter with Patty Murray, a Democrat senator from Washington, to Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt asking him to reconsider and reject the release of the proposed rules.
She also urged people to sign a petition on her website, www.hillpac.com, against the proposed changes.
"Our first effort is to get the Bush administration to rescind the regulation, not issue in its current form," Clinton said. "If that doesn't succeed, we're going to be looking for legislative steps that we can take to prevent this regulation from ever going into effect."
A copy of a memo that appears to be an Department of Health and Human Services draft provided to Reuters this week carries a broad definition of abortion as any procedures, including prescription drugs, "that result in the termination of the life of a human being in utero between conception and natural birth, whether before or after implantation."
Conception occurs when egg and sperm unite in the Fallopian tubes. It takes three to four days before the fertilized egg implants in the uterus. Several birth control methods interfere with this, including the birth control pill and IUDs.
"If enacted, these rules will make birth control out of reach for some women. That's a sure way to guarantee more unintended pregnancies and more abortions," said Anne Davis of Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Katy teacher accused of sexual relationship with student
Ok here we go again!!!! And we all know if this were a mail teacher and female student he would have already been tar and featherd and lambasted by EVERYBODY!!!
A Katy school teacher accused of having a sexual relationship with a student was ordered by a judge this morning to have no further contact with the teen.
State District Judge George Godwin ordered that Virginia Cammack, 35, not talk to or contact the 17-year-old boy while free on $20,000 bond. Cammack was charged Tuesday with having an improper relationship with a student, a second-degree felony.
After the brief hearing, prosecutor Denise Oncken said Cammack taught at Morton Ranch High School. She said Katy ISD authorities were led to Cammack by an anonymous e-mail and phone call from a parent.
Monday, July 14, 2008
Just In Case You Did Not Have Enough Info On McCain. How can we elect this shit?!?
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