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kyburgUp until now, the federal government followed the definition of pregnancy accepted by the American Medical Association and our nation's pregnancy experts, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which is: pregnancy begins at implantation. With this proposal, however, HHS is dismissing medical experts and opting instead to accept a definition of pregnancy based on polling data. It now claims that pregnancy begins at some biologically unknowable moment (there's no test to determine if a woman's egg has been fertilized). Under these new standards there would be no way for a woman to prove she's not pregnant. Thus, any woman could be denied contraception under HHS' new science.
Yup. Let's rebrand contraception as MOIDER.
I've already stated - at length - just why I have the stance on the whole 'partial-birth abortion' issue I do (it's a scam...it's as bad as you think, as bad as ANYONE would think, and nobody used it outside a courtroom dossier, gimme a break here) - but this is just pure spite, poured on 'we're stupid and we're proud of it.'
Nothing more.
It's a definition - and tied to getting help from the government (which is US, after all, you me and the guy across the room). Really not the place for it. An abortion is a very invasive, no-doubt-about-it medical procedure with very directed results towards a verfied, really really, no doubt about it, pregnancy.
That's the only defintion I will ever accept. The rest is blowing smoke, and Johnny tattling on Bobby who doesn't close his eyes during prayer...and what were YOU doing Johnny, during prayer that you noticed this? I dunno?!
What a waste.
Yup. Let's rebrand contraception as MOIDER.
I've already stated - at length - just why I have the stance on the whole 'partial-birth abortion' issue I do (it's a scam...it's as bad as you think, as bad as ANYONE would think, and nobody used it outside a courtroom dossier, gimme a break here) - but this is just pure spite, poured on 'we're stupid and we're proud of it.'
Nothing more.
It's a definition - and tied to getting help from the government (which is US, after all, you me and the guy across the room). Really not the place for it. An abortion is a very invasive, no-doubt-about-it medical procedure with very directed results towards a verfied, really really, no doubt about it, pregnancy.
That's the only defintion I will ever accept. The rest is blowing smoke, and Johnny tattling on Bobby who doesn't close his eyes during prayer...and what were YOU doing Johnny, during prayer that you noticed this? I dunno?!
What a waste.
