Speak out against this anti-woman, anti-patient HHS regulation
Now that President Obama has taken the first step to rescind a dangerous Health and Human Services (HHS) rule, you need to take the second step, today. The current HHS rule is bad for women’s health and bad for patients’ rights. It allows healthcare workers to refuse to provide virtually any family planning service that conflicts with their personal religious beliefs.
This rule, which was issued by the Bush administration as one of its final policy initiatives, puts women’s health in jeopardy by denying their right to vital health services and information. It also makes their right to reproductive freedom potentially captive by conservative religion. Finally, it ignores important civil rights law that balances an employee’s religious beliefs with an employer’s ability to provide patients with access to healthcare.
For more information on the rule and how it’s bad for women, click here.
We need your help to make sure that Obama is successful in rescinding this discriminatory and oppressive HHS rule. So please show your support for Obama by submitting your comments to the Federal Register (this opens a PDF with instructions). The public comment period lasts only 30 days, and we need as many voices as possible to stand up for women’s unfettered access to reproductive healthcare. Submit your comments today!
Here’s another way to voice your opinion thanks to the National Partnership for Women & Families.
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Want an interesting – and sad – TV episode. I think that right to refuse to do your job because of religious reasons is ridiculous. If you don’t want to dispense certain meds, get into a line of business where you don’t have to. Granted that is often easier written than done but imposing your own personal views onto others is just inappropriate.
For a nation that is apparently the home of freedom, Americans sure do love to tell other people what they can and can’t do. What a crummy law. Good for you, women should have the right to plan for themselves.
I saw a quick segment of a show on TV called “What Would You Do?” on ABC. It’s a total setup show where they have actors and then unsuspecting public are put in positions. They had a pharmacist (an actor) deny a perscription to a 16-year-old girl (also an actor) in a pharmacy, even though the girl had a perscription from a doctor.
Most people just sat there and didn’t do anything (big surprise) but one woman forcefully told the pharmacist that he had no right to do that and he should be ashamed. One person in 2 days of filming! It was a pretty cool scene, this lady at least had some courage and some morals. Keep up the fight!
I did it! I helped Obama! = )
(through the second link)
–Christina