What I Miss This Week?
The Department of Health and Human Services has decided that medical standards is for the birds, what we really need is to listen to the crackpots on the religious right. The new proposal would be to ignore what the American Medical Association and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists all say about pregnancy and declare that it really begins whenever the fundies say it does. I'd like to remind all the people who claim that "pr-life" really isn't anti-choice that declaring birth control the same as abortion kind of leans towards that "screw your choice" side of things. At least they're ballsy enough to finally stop hiding behind false claims of being for "the babies" and just admitting they want women barefoot and knocked up.
On a similar note Bush isn't going out without taking your choices with him. He is proposing that hospitals, clinics, etc... who receive any federal aid can't refuse to hire people who don't want to do their job. Unfortunately that only applies for birth control and abortions. Darn, I was hoping to get a job filing paper and then claim it's against my religion to touch paper. That's be a sweet gig, getting paid to sit back and claim everyone is oppressing me for my religious beliefs.
The Senate reauthorized PEPFAR and at the same time repealed the ban on HIV-positive travel and immigration. Now we just have to wait and see what the House will do. Keep your fingers crossed.
Mike Pouraryan
