I'll admit it, though it won't surprise you. I'm on the MoveOn Political Action e-mail list. Why? Well...I guess the main reason is that every once in awhile (and here I'm thinking in the neighborhood of 10-20% of the time) they send out an e-mail complaining about something that's actually interesting. They also from time to time offer free bumper stickers and buttons and whatnot. I'm far to the left (which should also not come as a surprise), but MoveOn is way out there on the lunatic fringe, beyond even the bombastic Keith Olbermann, west of Haight-Ashbury.
But from time to time they do manage to jump on something for all sensible people to get behind, not just the vast majority of sensible people who are all on the left.
The Bush administration, by way of the Department of Health and Human Services, is considering something called a "draft regulation" that would classify quite a lot of contraceptive devices - including most birth control pills - as forms of abortion. (Want to read all about it? Okay: Houston Chronicle, Wall Street Journal, and especially an excellent "letter" to HHS secretary Michael Leavitt posted at Slate. A Medical News Today article gets into a bit more detail about what the draft regulation would do. You can also click here to sign the MoveOn petition to Secretary Leavitt protesting this ridiculous nonsense.)
Yeah, that's right. Birth control pills would be considered abortion. How do you think John McCain feels about the Bush administration right now? Here he is doing everything he can to convince hard-right conservatives that he's on their team without at the same alienating the rest of the voters (the sensible ones). Abortion, of course, is the single issue on which he has always been reliably hard-right. But if he supports this laughable measure - and he'll have to say something about it at some point, and at some point soon, because the Obama camp will jump all over it - he'll lose the election. All those women who have thought about jumping ship since Obama defeated Hillary Clinton will jump as one, feet first and loudly, into (or more lkely, back into) Obama's camp. If he does not support it, he loses the ultra-hard-right conservative nazis he aboslutely has to have even to have a chance - slim as it might be - to defeat Obama in November.
Maybe you noticed that I haven't used the word "legislation" yet. That's because this proposed rule isn't legislation - it's a "draft regulation," which, like Bushtard's famous "signing statements," allow him to do the thing other than get American soldiers killed for no good reason that he's actually had success with during his presidency - bypass Congress.
Fortunately, it will be overturned, or repealed, or whatever, shortly after Obama takes office in January. If Bushtard wanted to enodrse Obama, why didn't he just come out and say so? Or will they not let you into the Republican clubhouse if you aren't constantly pissing off women and praising Jesus?
5 comments:
So is it that their seeking to interfere with the employee / employer relationship that bothers you?
Or just the run of the mill BS that both Repugnacans and Demotards both do to their own advantage?
Please don't try and pretend the democrats believe in freedom any more than the right side of the aisle. They have just as many (or more) of their own freedom-curtailing ideas.
I don't think that the Federal government should threaten to pull funding for a beneficial program unless doctors fall in line with the administration's thinking - especially when it's neocon Republican "thinking."
Also, the government has no business meddling in anyone's privacy. Birth control is not abortion - though it's basically irrelevant because both birth control and abortion are legal and both should be.
And no, I don't believe Dems are the perfect antidote to the GOP - but the less conservative someone is, the better. Advantage: Donkey.
I completely agree that birth control pills should not be considered abortion. Faith-based initiatives can certainly be whacked out ideas from time to time, although some of them aren't bad. I kind of wish John Edwards would have thought about the pull-out form of abortion instead of fathering a child behind the back of his terminally-ill wife. I guess "faith" isn't to be found on either side of the fence. The election is still completely up for grabs considering over 40% of the country hasn't made up their minds. I do agree that the draft is a little bonkers, but this will not affect McCain or Obama in the end, I don't think. If Bush were running for re-election (no, McCain is not Bush's third term and if I hear one more liberal shitbird say it is, someone is going to get a fist in the ass), the Bush should be worried. This is the ACLU/NYCLU, and even if I wanted to fight this regulation, siding with the ACLU would be like renouncing my citizenship. I still love you John-O, liberal and all.
I don't really think McCain is Bush's third term, other than with respect to Iraq (though the slogan does make me laugh).
Plus, all he would have to do would turn out to be remotely respectable as President and he would prove himself to be the polar opposite of Bush.
And yeah, there's really nothing to say in defense of John Edwards. Now there will be a line at Jesse Jackson's nuts-cutting party.
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