�The following is a summary of selected women's health-related web log entries.
HHS Regulation
~"American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology Calls Out Secretary Leavitt for Misrepresenting Certification Issues in Support of Proposed Regulation," Our Bodies Ourselves: HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt's most recent mailing on his professional blog about the proposed regulation reflects that he "continues to either misunderstand or deliberately fudge the credential issue as a master argument for the introduction of the proposed regulations," the blog post says. According to the submission, the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the certifying organization for ob/gyns, has "clearly stated since at least March of this class that refusal to do or look up for miscarriage would take no bearing on issuance or replenishment of supplier certification." The blog references a alphabetic character sent on Aug. 22 by ABOG to Leavitt in response to the proposed ordinance. The letter challenges Leavitt to provide any evidence that this is a real justification for the regulation, which he has "thus far failed to provide" ("Our Bodies Ourselves," 8/25).
~"HHS Proposal Says Doctors Can Refuse Abortions, Referrals," Feministing: Leavitt's insistence that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists "issued guidelines that could shape board certification requirements and necessitate a doctor to perform abortions to be considered competent" is a falsehood that "HHS is using [to] create the illusion that providers' rights are under vicious attack, when in reality the regulations ar the criminal offence, blatantly ominous our procreative freedoms -- particularly for uninsured and low-income women," the blog post says. In gain, the entry says that although the regulation does not define contraception as abortion, the American Civil Liberties Union thinks in that location could be "some wriggle room" ("Feministing," 8/22).
~"The Department of Health and Hallowed Services," Cristina Page, Birth Control Watch: While Leavitt is "attempting to take place off his new rule as protecting health caution providers world Health Organization, for reasons of conscience, don't want to shoot part in abortion services," for those "schooled in the fine print, the regulation might be described as a love letter to extremists," Page writes in a blog entry. According to Page, in that respect already own been trey laws passed in the last 30 years that protect individuals who do not want to participate in abortion services. Page adds, "Leavitt does non claim that these pentateuch are unequal; he does not point to whatsoever violations of them. He seems to want us to trust that he is just underscoring longstanding laws." Page concludes that "[i]f Leavitt's intention is as broad as his loosely worded rule to evoke, your right-hand to health care -- all health care -- will be determined by the sensitivities of almost every person in a white gabardine, and level perhaps others. Your dr. may non have a problem giving you that prescription, simply will the pharmacist fill it? And, if so, will the pro-life cashier ring it up? Women have had to run an obstacle course to get procreative health care in recent years. If we leave it to Leavitt, the number of obstacles will grow" (Page, "Birth Control Watch," 8/22).
~"Proposed HHS Regulation Could Still Block Access to Contraception, Other Health Services," Jessica Arons, RH Reality Check: Arons writes that although most of the regulation "limits the scope of allowable moral objections to training, performing, counseling or referring for abortion and sterilization," its allowance for objections based on whatever personal moral convictions or religious beliefs "is much broader than traditional scruples clauses." Arons adds that the regulating would extend protection from physicians and nurses "to just about anyone wHO might come into middleman with a patient, and even some who might not," final, "[b]y that logic, an ambulance driver, a receptionist and even the person wHO processes health insurance forms might be able to refuse to perform their jobs if related to a wellness care armed service they recover morally objectionable. Volunteers ar explicitly protected, too" (Arons, "RH Reality Check," 8/22).
Election Issues
~"McCain Surrogate Falsely Suggests McCain Does Not Want to Overturn Roe," Think Progress: According to the blog entrance, in a new advert for Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), Debra Bartoshevich, a self-described "proud Hillary Clinton Democrat," announces that she opposes Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) and will vote for McCain. The blog reports that at a press league, Bartoshevich made this statement: "Going back to 1999, John McCain did an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle saying that overturning Roe v. Wade would non make whatever sense, because then women would receive to get illegal abortions." The brand adds that McCain supporter Carly Fiorina -- world Health Organization also attended the press conference with Bartoshevich -- has perverted McCain's posture on choice in the past. "Newsweek magazine reported" that Fiorina "told women in Columbus, Ohio, that McCain 'has never gestural on to efforts to overturn Roe vs. Wade,'" the web log says ("Think Progress," 8/25).
~"Biden -- a Moderate?" ProLifeBlogs: The blog entry examines vice presidential candidate Sen. Joseph Biden's (D-Del.) balloting record on such issues as Roe and abortion rights. According to the blog entree, "[g]iven his radical support for abortion, the news that" Obama chose Biden as his running mate is "not often of a surprise. What is a surprise is that some actually weigh Biden to be tame on issues related to the dignity of human" life ("ProLifeBlogs," 8/23).
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