Bush Administration Launches Final Attack on Women’s Health
The Bush administration just implemented a rule that will allow individual health care providers to redefine abortion to include the most common forms of birth control — and then refuse to provide these basic services. A woman's ability to manage her own health care is at risk of being compromised by politics and ideology.
More than 200,000 people — including more than 90,000 Planned Parenthood supporters like you, and 150 members of Congress — called on the Bush administration to withdraw this damaging proposal that could keep millions of low-income and uninsured people from receiving basic health information and necessary medical care.
But the administration didn’t listen. Its new rule will allow the more than 600,000 health providers who receive federal funding to redefine abortion to include the most common forms of birth control — and then refuse to provide these basic services. For any health provider to intentionally withhold information about widely embraced treatment options from a patient — for any health condition — is absolutely unconscionable under any circumstances. It’s outrageous that President Bush is using his last days in office to implement a rule that would limit the rights of patients to receive complete and accurate reproductive health information.
A woman's ability to manage her own health care is at risk of being compromised by politics and ideology.
The exam room is no place to play political games.
