Family Planning Issues
NFPRHA Launches Ad Campaign Against Bush's Anti-contraception RegulationsThe Administration has issued new regulations they claim will protect workers, as a ruse to wage war on mainstream family planning services like counseling and contraception. Existing law carefully balances protections for individual religious liberty and patients' access to family planning services. |MORE |
Calif. AG, Family Planning Advocates Say Proposed HHS Rule Would Overturn State Birth Control LawAug. 21, 2008 California Attorney General Jerry Brown (D) and some family planning advocates on Wednesday [8/20/08] said that a draft HHS regulation would prohibit the state from enforcing the state law requiring insurance coverage for birth control to women, the San Francisco Chronicle reports (Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 8/21). Also on Wednesday, the Planned Parenthood Action Fund and MoveOn.org Political Action submitted a petition with more than 325,000 signatures urging HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt to withdraw the draft rule from consideration, ABC News reports (Barrett, ABC News, 8/20). | MORE |
An affront to women and familiesA last-ditch effort to redefine birth control as abortion isn't a matter of conscience; it's just unconscionableMichael Leavitt feels misunderstood, or so he hints on his blog. The Bush-appointed secretary of health and human services isn't sure how some people, somehow, got the crazy idea that the government intends to redefine birth control as a form of abortion. READ MORE in The Oregonian's editorial 8/12/08 |
Redefining abortion:
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Birth Control: They're at it againThe Bush administration has heard the outrage over a proposed regulation that would dishonestly define birth control as abortion. Read MORE in SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL 8/10/08 |
Treating the Pill as Abortion,
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Keroack resignsAssistant Secretary for Population Affairs Keroack Resigns Because of Unspecified Action Against His Private Medical Practice Deputy Assistant Secretary for HHS' Office of Population Affairs Eric Keroack on Thursday [March 29] announced that he will resign from the post due to an unspecified action taken against his private medical practice in Massachusetts by state Medicaid officials, the Washington Post reports. Dr. Keroack was named to the post in November 2006 "amidst a firestorm of negative press over his credentials, or lack thereof," according to NFPRHA (the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association). "Keroack was a controversial choice to oversee the Title X national family planning program, based on a record showing him to be an ardent anti-choice ob-gyn, vocal supporter of abstinence-only education, and even an opponent of contraception." See editorials below denouncing Bush's original decision to place this opponent of contraception in charge of the federally funded domestic family planning program. |
More Uninsured Women of Reproductive AgeGuttmacher Institute reports that in the past five years, the "proportion of women of reproductive age covered by one-third...Yet, this increase -- of nearly two million women -- was matched by an increase in the proportion of reproductive-age women who were uninsured." For full article and state by state statistics, see Guttmacher's report online. |
Appeals Court Says: Railroad's Policy To Not Provide Coverage for Contraceptives Is OKIn a controversial decision on March 15, 2007 the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis found that Union Pacific's policy of providing no coverage for contraceptives for female employees or female members of employees' family does not constitute discrimination against women. See further. |
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| • "Family Planning Farce" is what a New York Times editorial called the President's extremely ill-advised appointment of Eric Keroack to head family planning programs at the Department of Health and Human Services since Dr. Keroack is known for his blatantly anti-contraception views. Read editorial in full. |
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