I have previously written about the dangerous proposed Department of Health and Human Services rule that would endanger women’s access to reproductive health care. The rule, if instated, would allow health care workers to prevent women from knowing all of their health care options, including those regarding birth control — and would call government-funded providers “discriminatory” for refusing to hire such people, thus removing their funding.
The comment period for the proposed rule closes on September 25th.
If you have not already sent in your comments in opposition to the proposed HHS rule, please do so now. And get any/all of your pro-choice friends to do the same. Time is running out!
As of September 17th, 25,000 people had submitted comments to HHS through Planned Parenthood’s form. Thousands of others have sent in comments in opposition to the rule via other organization’s websites, or the direct email address consciencecomment@hhs.gov. But more comments are desperately needed before the deadline.
To learn more about the proposed rule, you can visit Planned Parenthood’s fact sheet, or this Op Ed by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards, which appeared in yesterday’s NY Times.
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Done! Though I did ramble a bit; in my excuse, I woke up at 6AM on a weekend.
I sent my comments in right after it became public they were headed this way.
Sadly, you know these fuckwits have already decided to implement these rules, so I’m not sure more comments are going to do anything to dissuade them.
Does anyone know if they can be challenged in court or through the legal system?
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