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Support President Obama's Rescission of the Health Care Denial RuleOn Friday, we were excited to let you know that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under President Obama has proposed to rescind (PDF) President Bush’s Health Care Denial Rule, which undermines the ability of American women to obtain basic reproductive health care, including birth control and information about abortion. We told you that we would need your help to convince HHS to follow-through with its proposal and rescind this misguided regulation. But, we asked you to hold your horses. Well, now we’re saying, ready, set, go! The public comment period on the proposed rescission opened today and continues through April 9, so send in your comment and tell your friends to do the same! When we first told you about the Bush regulation, more than 40,000 of you took action through our Action Center to tell Bush’s HHS not to implement the Health Care Denial Rule. Despite receiving more than 200,000 comments, the overwhelming majority of which opposed the rule, the Bush administration finalized the damaging regulation. Now, the Obama administration is working to undo the harm. We need to show them that we are just as committed to rescission as we were angry about implementation. It might be tempting to think that action is less imperative this time, when the administration is proposing to do what we’d like it to do (how refreshing after eight years of an anti-choice executive branch!), but we need to be just as engaged now if we want HHS to follow through with its proposal to rescind the Health Care Denial Regulation. Therefore, please take action now, and forward our alert to everyone in your address book who cares about women’s access to basic reproductive health care.
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Mar 11th, 2009 at 4:55pm
I urge you to rescind the Health Care Denial Regulation and preserve women's access to basic reproductive health care.
Apr 28th, 2009 at 12:26am
OK Here we go! It's called torture to pour water on the face of a murdering terrorist (who by the way is not killed) and it's called cruel and inhumane. But it's ok to pull a baby from it's mothers womb and stick scissors in the back of it's neck and suck the brains out. And if by chance it survives we deny it life preserving care! What is wrong with you people? Please enlighten me!
May 11th, 2009 at 9:02am
You are referring to later term abortions. The early term are not yet fetus but only zygotes. They can be used for scientific purposes to sustain the life of someone with responsibilities and lives of her own to care for. No one can walk in her shoes and should not be able to dictate her life choices to her anymore than the average man (regarless of color or national origin) would allow.