Fight Bush’s Proposed Anti-Birth Control Regulations!
Take action! Push back against HHS draft regulations that would protect health care providers who refuse to provide information and referrals on contraception.
How would you feel if you called a federally-funded
family planning clinic and the person who answered the phone refused to make an
appointment for you until you prove that you’re married? How would you feel if you asked for emergency contraception at a public health clinic and were told by
the public health nurse that you have to go somewhere else because Plan B is
the same as having an abortion? What if these employees were protected by
federal regulations so they couldn’t be fired, transferred, or disciplined?
The
New York Times recently uncovered that the Department of Health and Human
Services is drafting
regulations that would "prohibit discrimination" against certain health care
employees who refuse to deliver contraceptives because of religious or moral
objections. Medical organizations, elected officials and activist citizens are
protesting the proposed rules because they would declare many forms of
contraception to be equivalent to abortion and impose unnecessary and
burdensome personnel "conscience protection" rules on federally funded
hospitals and clinics in a thinly-disguised effort to interfere with access to
birth control. Help us stop the rule
change.
Take Action!
- Read the draft
regulations. - Thank your US Representative and your US Senator(s) if they signed on to the House
letter or the Senate letter
to the President opposing these regulations.
Click here
to contact the 104 US Representatives
and 28 US
Senators that signed the letter.
If you need to find your US
Representative, click here.
If you need to identify your
US
Senator, click
here.
- If your US Representative or US
Senator(s) did not sign on, contact them to encourage their opposition to
these regulations.
Learn more:
- Letter from the American
Medical Association (AMA), - Letter from the American
College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists - Information from the National
Partnership for Women and Families - Information from the National Family
Planning and Reproductive Health Association - Joint news
release from the Wisconsin Family Planning and Reproductive Health
Association and the Wisconsin Coalition for Reproductive Choice