Reply #1: Wow, I hope the lack of response to this is only due to so many posts going up

[BlancheSplanchnik]

in our joy and excitement, and not because people find Obama's determination to reverse rulings enacted based on ideological hatred for women, and life or death health/reproductive issues uninteresting.

Did you even KNOW? Does anyone here even CARE?? : http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/3895
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"In Bush's waning days he took one last swipe at women's reproductive health. The "right of conscience" rule, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services under the agency's rule-making authority, went into effect yesterday.

The federal rule with the force of law permits workers at more than 584,000 U.S. medical facilities that receive federal funding to refuse to provide care or administer procedures with which they disagree, including emergency contraception, known as Plan B. The rule could hamper states from enforcing laws that require hospitals to offer those treatments, such as the morning-after pill for rape victims."