birth control

NARAL Pro-Choice Amererica has produced this video on U.S. Sen. John McCain's position on the fairness of insurance companies covering Viagra but not birth control.

The New York Times recently reported that the Bush Administration is proposing a new regulation that could potentionally (presumably the intention) discourage clinics and hospitals from providing birth control to women in need.

The legislation purposely confuses the definition of abortion and contraception, calling abortion "any of the following procedures - including prescription, dispension and administration of any drug or the performance of any procedure or any other action - that results in the termination of the life of a human being in utero between conception and natural birth, whether before or after implantation."

Senator Hillary Clinton blogged on Huffington Post stating that the Bush Administration "could prevent providers of federally-funded family planning services, like Medicaid and Title X, from guaranteeing their patients access to the full range of comprehensive family planning services. They'll also build significant barriers to counseling, education, contraception and preventive health services for those who need it most: low-income and uninsured women and men."

This is exactly why we must elect pro-choice candidates. Sen. John McCain has repeatedly voted against allowing women to obtain birth control and he has made it clear he intends to carry on Bush's anti-choice legacy should he reach the White House.