Abortion?! Them is Fightin’ Words!

Okay ladies. Put up your dukes. It's time to do some fightin'. The Republican executive branch, in its last ditch efforts to impose its "morality" on us, have now classified our birth control pills/shots/rings/IUD's and Plan B as a form of abortion. How does that affect you? Well it doesn't - yet.

According to the New York Times, the Department of Health and Human Services (the great people that brought HIPAA into health care) has drafted rules that would ban the federal funding of hospitals, clinics and pharmacies that require their staff to dispense these medications. But what scares me the most is the wording in the drafted rules defining abortion as, "any of the various procedures — including the prescription, dispensing and administration of any drug or the performance of any procedure or any other action — that results in the termination of the life of a human being in utero between conception and natural birth, whether before or after implantation." Yes, Biology majors, Zygotes and Blastocysts are apparently human beings right away.

Now I'm not talking Juno, "my baby has fingernails" abortions. I'm talking about our birth control. You know the stuff you take so you can be a responsible parent or non-parent? I have a neighbor that has 6 children in a tiny 4 bedroom house, in which one of the rooms functions as a "schoolhouse." This is what they want from us – tons of kids, and lots of poor people homeschooling a generation of children ignorant to advanced society.

Now you might ask how a simple drafted rule like this can affect you if you go to a private doctor for your birth control. Well, it's about to get expensive. Most states require insurance companies to cover your birth control. Under these new rules, the Federal policy will supercede state policy, and any state that refuses to go along with the new rules will loose its Medicaid funding. What's worse is that it will make hospitals and clinics, including Planned Parenthood hire nurses and doctors who may also want to impose their "morality" on young, poor women who can't afford to pay cash for birth control.

Youth, inexperience and multiple children will only bring about a higher infant mortalilty rate and more homelessness. And to make it worse, the churches encourage in vitro fertilization, or as I call it, human litters (Jon and Bitch, oops, Kate Plus 8), so there are less couples out there willing to adopt than there used to be. Hey with these new funding rules along with Abstinence Only education, we'll finally be number one in the world again – in teenage pregnancy.

Call/write/email your Representatives, because after all, they control the budget for the Department of Health and Human Services, and can pull the strings out from under them.