Hillary Advancing Reproductive Health Fight through HillPAC
21 July 2008 1:07 pm by Taylor Marsh
BY TAYLOR MARSH
Senator Clinton keeps fighting for us. Her post at RH Reality Check, which is cross-posted over at Huffington
Post, hits it out of the park. She’s also got a petition
going through HillPAC, so you can get involved.
The Bush Administration is up to its old tricks again, quietly putting ideology
before science and women’s health. The U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services is poised to put in place new barriers to accessing common forms
of contraception like birth control pills, emergency contraception and IUDs
by labeling them “abortion.” These proposed regulations set to be
released next week will allow healthcare providers to refuse to provide contraception
to women who need it. We can’t let them get away with this underhanded move
to undermine women’s health and that’s why I am sounding the alarm.These rules pose a serious threat to providers and uninsured and low-income
Americans seeking care. They could prevent providers of federally-funded family
planning services, like Medicaid and Title X, from guaranteeing their patients
access to the full range of comprehensive family planning services. They’ll
also build significant barriers to counseling, education, contraception and
preventive health services for those who need it most: low-income and uninsured
women and men.The regulations could even invalidate state laws that currently ensure access
to contraception for many Americans. …
Hillary hasn’t missed a beat since the primaries ended. She continues to prove
why she was my candidate and why I continue to support her today.
Dear Secretary Leavitt,
I am appalled at the proposal now under consideration at HHS which will endanger
family planning services and undermine the health of women across the country.
I strongly urge you to refute this outrageous policy that threatens to affect
Medicaid and Title X programs that are important to millions of families.I stand with Hillary Clinton and women and men across America in speaking
out against this proposal. We’ve had enough of putting ideology over science
and failed policies harming healthy families.
It’s also important to note that Hillary Clinton would be leading us in the exact same fight she is today if John McCain were to become president.
