I’m in my sixties, and I thought we’d resolved these issues and put them to bed quite some time ago. But, they’ve reared their ugly heads and they’re hitting us once again, this time with…
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I oppose H.R. 3: No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act because I am a woman, and I adamantly believe that Government has no place in my Doctor’s office dictating what decisions I can make. The…
I’ve written two previous blog articles on this subject: ACLU Challenges Patents on Human Genes and A Thank You to the Plaintiffs, the ACLU and Judge Sweet. And, as the debate ensued over health care…
Like Barbara Coombs Lee of the Huffington Post, I cannot be silent about the fact that the Obama Administration has not yet rescinded this onerous regulation, that puts the consciences of anyone working in and…
Posted on Regulations.gov on March 10, 2009 is document HHS_FRDOC_0001-0050 which describes the process for submitting comments relative to the rescission of the Regulation entitled “Ensuring That Department of Health and Human Services Funds Do…
As I perused the Columbus Dispatch this morning I came across an article indicating that President Obama’s administration will be publishing a notice of its intentions to repeal the “right to refuse” regulation promulgated by…
Despite the opposition of women’s health advocates and many other U.S. citizens who submitted comments in opposition to this rule, Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt announced on Thursday, Dec. 18th that he was…
I’ve been following HHS Sec’y Leavitt’s efforts to expand protections for religious objectors to women’s reproductive services for some time now. As I googled my usual daily search for “leavitt conscience regulation,” I came across…
Here we go again! Despite the overwhelming number of negative comments submitted throughout the comment period (which ended September 25, 2008), it seems that Secretary Leavitt is hell-bent on imposing his personal religious beliefs in…
On August 21, 2008, HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt released his proposed regulation which could have many far-reaching impacts on women’s and family’s health issues. It was published in Federal Register Vol. 73, No 166 on…