Seems that the current administration and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are colluding to adapt the definition of ‘abortion’ to now include the use of contraceptives, such as the pill, the patch, the shot, the ring, the IUD, and emergency contraception.

They have just announced a proposal which strives to now redefine conception as taking place, not at the moment that the embryo is implanted in the uterus, which is the widely held medical viewpoint, but rather at the moment that the egg is fertilized by the sperm. This would basically mean that any form of birth control which occurs after the moment when the egg and sperm meet, would be an ‘abortion’.

So you may be asking that if the medical community at large doesn’t classify abortions this way, what is the motivator for the HHS to classify it like this? A poll. Yep, an honest-to-god opinion survey. Here’s the quote, directly from the proposal:

A 2001 Zogby International American Values poll revealed that 49% of Americans believe that human life begins at conception.

What makes this so appalling though, (and this is the real hook of the proposal, by the way), is that there is no way to detect that an egg has been fertilized until the embryo implants itself in the uteran wall. This is why the medical community makes no attempt to classify that moment as when pregnancy begins.

So there you have it. Not science, not research. A poll… just like you get called to take while you’re trying to eat dinner. But our current governments viewpoint has been so strongly slanted toward teaching ‘abstinence-only’ (which has been a total failure, but is the topic for another post), that I can’t say that this move is terribly shocking.

So what does this mean exactly? They want to reclassify the moment that an ‘abortion’ takes place to a biologically undetectable time. And the repercussions of this is, to quote the source article:

Anyone working for a federal clinic, or a health center that receives federal funding–even in the form of Medicaid–and would like to prevent a woman from accessing most prescription birth control methods has federal protection to do so.

This is absolutely an outrage. What can you do about it? Well, for starters, MoveOn.org has started a petition, which you can sign to express your disapproval. The next step is to send a clear message to our government, local, state and federal, that we will not stand for this kind of crap and we will fire them come election time. Remember that they work for us. And it’s up to you to make them remember it too.

Click here for the source article.

Click here to read the actual proposal.

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