Bush-Era Abortion Rules Face Possible Reversal by Obama

[LynneSin]

Thank goodness. This one is just harsh. I would highly suggest anyone using the pill stock up on a few months supply until we can get this one overturned. My biggest challenge is a pharmacist who thinks they know better than a doctor. How dare these people play 'god' with women, many who take birth control pills for reasons OTHER than birth control (One of my best friends had to start on BC early because of a cyst found on her ovary).

If pharmacists don't want to hand out birth control bills then they should get the hell out of the business. They are not doctors and they have no RIGHTS to deny a prescription for any reason provided that it is a legitimate prescription.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122947155578512197.html

Bush-Era Abortion Rules Face Possible Reversal
Obama Team Looks at Regulation Set to Be Finalized This Week Letting Medical Staff Refuse to Take Part in Practices They OpposeArticle
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more in Politics »By LAURA MECKLER
WASHINGTON -- The outgoing Bush administration this week will finalize a regulation establishing a "right of conscience" allowing medical staff to refuse to participate in any practice they object to on moral grounds, including abortion but possibly birth control and other health care as well.

In transition offices across town, officials in the incoming Obama administration have begun considering how and when to undo it.

The regulation is one of a swath of abortion and other reproductive-health issues under review by the Obama team, which is preparing to reverse a variety of Bush measures, according to officials close to the transition. The review is part of a sweeping scrutiny of Bush-era legislation and regulation on issues across the federal government, from environmental and labor rules to defense spending.


Which Bush policies do you expect Obama to target first?On abortion and related matters, action is expected early on executive, regulatory, budgetary and legislative fronts.

Decisions that the new administration will weigh include: whether to cut funding for sexual abstinence programs; whether to increase funding for comprehensive sex education programs that include discussion of birth control; whether to allow federal health plans to pay for abortions; and whether to overturn regulations such as one that makes fetuses eligible for health-care coverage under the Children's Health Insurance Program.

[livetohike]

1. "Right of conscience". Such b.s.

This opens the door to all sorts of refusals to do things - not just medical. Obama can't take office soon enough for me.

[Webster Green]

2. Everything he did should be declared null and void..

His (ahem!) pResidency** was a criminal conspiracy from start to finish.

:thumbsdown:

[ensho]

3. agree

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