Bush is trying to please his fundamentalist Christian Republican extremists. So now we have to give up sex or have babies? Or maybe we should give up on electing Republicans? M
Clinton vows to fight "insulting" abortion plan
Clinton vows to fight insulting abortion plan | Reuters
Fri Jul 18, 2008 7:58pm EDT
By Michelle Nichols
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.
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.
She also urged people to sign a petition on her website,
HillPac
, against the proposed changes.