I recently wrote that President Obama was planning to overturn Bush’s last minute HHS “conscience” rule that prevents health care providers from “discriminating” against all levels of anti-choice employees who literally refuse to do their jobs, and is intended to not only restrict access to abortion, but also birth control and reproductive health care in general.
Well he’s gone and begun the process to do exactly that. The 30 day comment period for the public to send in their thoughts on the proposed change opened earlier this week. Which means that just like it was important for you to send in your opposition to the rule when Bush proposed it, it’s important to send in your support for its repeal now. Not because we have reason to believe that Obama will back out of his promise, but because pro-choice causes, women’s health, and access to services needs all of the public support that they can get.
Click here to send your comments to the Department of Health and Human Services. And then, make sure to spread the word and ensure that all of your friends do the same!
Is anyone having trouble with the form? I put in my info and wrote my comment and hit submit, and then I just got a refreshed/empty version of the form instead of a confirmation page. I’m worried my comment didn’t go through, but I tried twice and it happened twice.
I didn’t, wall-flower, but I submitted mine the other day before I got this post up.
If you’re having trouble with the form, folks, you can also just email your comments directly to proposedrescission@hhs.gov. I think you just want to include your name and address at the end of the email.
You can also make comments online directly through Regulations.gov instead of through an organization. This is also kind of nice for nerds like me who like to read/count the submitted comments, because comments through Regulations.gov appear individually, while comments through organizations tend to get batched into a single file.