spiffykt Casey's Profile

“To bypass the will of the people

at least two dozen local governments are suffering from a case of buyer’s remorse, with legislative bodies from New York City to Tacoma, Wash., trying to overturn or tweak the laws.

the limits severely hamper government and leave the officials little time to figure out the mechanics of their office.

Virginia's unenforceable law makes the performance of any abortion procedure that falls within a broad definition (except suction curettage, suction aspiration, and certain dilation and evacuation procedures) a felony,

17.5 million were in need of publicly funded contraceptive services and supplies because they were either younger than 20 or had an income below 250% of the federal poverty level.

Access to contraception is the only proven
way to reduce unwanted pregnancy rates.

North Kentucky Right to Life, for instance,
will not endorse a candidate unless he or she states that the
standard birth control pill is an abortion method

25% of women noted received a much broader range of services from these centers

if 76% of women are receiving their health care services from private practice providers, with the institution of a regulation such as this, would we not be setting up even more of a chasm between women who can afford to, essentially, bypass the regulation?

"accidental rewording"

Deficit Reduction Act

nullify state laws protecting women's access to reproductive health services,

27 states currently require that insurers treat contraception like other prescriptions, while 16 states require hospital ER's to provide emergency contraception for rape victims.

It would prohibit federally funded medical facilities—including teaching hospitals and Planned Parenthood clinics—from refusing to hire doctors who don't want to dispense birth control pills and other types of contraception

(It's already illegal to discriminate against doctors who refuse to perform abortions.)

The hormones in the morning after pill work by keeping a woman's ovaries from releasing eggs — ovulation.

But there is no proof that this actually happens.