Bush admin wants birth control defined as abortion

by Violet Blue on August 13, 2008

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Image of Google gifts after my last Google Tech Talk about abstinence.

I’m not a big one for online petitions or email campaigns, but this is like, enough’s enough. I mean, I knew we had to keep a close eye on this bastard before he leaves office — you know how presidents like to slip in favors and last-minute loose-end-tying before they bail — but wow. The Bush administration is proposing and pushing regulations via the Department of Health and Human Services to define contraception (birth control) as abortion. A condom is not an abortion — but in schools, with abstinence education, this is most likely what they’ll learn. Just imagine the ramifications of that scenario — even as far as the global HIV/AIDS pandemic.

Read MoveOn.org Urges Opposition to HHS Regulations Redefining Contraception as Abortion, and they’ll tell us what we can do (like this email campaign and petition), even if it feels like we’re David and they’re… an outdated Biblical reference.

Violet Blue

The London Times named Violet Blue "One of the 40 bloggers who really count" and Self Magazine named TinyNibbles one of the “Best Sex Resources for Women.” Blue is an autodidact and pundit on sex and technology, hacking and security, porn for women, privacy and bleeding-edge tech culture. She is a journalist for ZDNet, CBS News, CNET; she's an educator, speaker, crisis counselor, volunteer NGO trainer, and the author and editor of over 40 award-winning books.

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{ 5 comments }

1 Jimmy Rogers August 17, 2008 at 5:12 pm

Gonna echo your post and use that awesome graphic….just letting you know…I think it’s so clever and the topic is in need of as much press as possible….

love your podcast!

-Jimmy

2 Tom August 14, 2008 at 6:14 pm

Wow, that’s just Stupefying….

3 violet August 14, 2008 at 11:35 am

I think that’s pretty much how they feel. like all the Victorian anti-masturbation propaganda, the scary devices, it was all rooted in anti-sin and saving seed. all the corsets without the fun.

4 Blake August 14, 2008 at 6:23 am

So how do we classify a wet dream? “Son… just so you know… you just killed 30 million babies last night. How does that make you feel?”

5 AV Flox August 14, 2008 at 2:18 am

God, that is so ridiculous! Thanks for the heads up!

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