Thursday, August 28, 2008

Contraception is the New Abortion

The Department of Health and Human Services, under pressure from the religious right and the Bush Administration, is trying to expand the definition of what is considered an abortion to include any birth control methods that work after fertilization. Such an act would expand the scope of the Weldon Act of 2004, which already makes access to abortion services difficult, to the point that ability to acquire basic birth control such as the pill would be negatively impacted.

Article from Science Progress

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