[SouthDixie]

The Bush administration proposed new rules today that critics say would make it more difficult for women to obtain abortions, and for men and women to obtain contraceptives.

Okay, i understand the abortions wholeheartedly but wtf is up with contraception restrictions? Sounds religious and i'm scared.

[gidget7]

Scared? You're kidding right? The CRITICS say that. It would do nothing to contraception, except maybe..............maybe, allow pharmacists to opt out of offering the morning after pill. Even if they did, the pharmacy down the street would, so what is the problem?

Abortion is not a for of contraception! Even though libs treat it as such. And Insemination should give doctors the right to refuse for single women or lesbians.

[timm22]

Okay, i understand the abortions wholeheartedly but wtf is up with contraception restrictions? Sounds religious and i'm scared.

There are some physicians and pharmacists who are opposed to the use of contraception. Probably for the vast majority of them it is indeed a religious issue.

Even so, it's nothing to be afraid of. I think there is only a small minority of people in the medical field who are opposed to the use of contraception, let alone so strongly opposed that they would refuse to provide them to patients/customers.

But even if a lot of doctors and pharmacists DID have religious objections, shouldn't it be there right to decide which products and services they provide? After all, this is a country which embraces free markets and individual liberty. It's *their* practice, *their* business, and *their* reputation at stake.

Forcing them to provide products or services against their will makes them little better than slaves.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Scared? Really? You can get contraceptives from 99% of the pharmacies, County Health Departments, groceries, Student Health Services, and truckstop lavatories in America---- plus mail-order --- and you're "scared" because some unusually conscientious pharmacist in Powell, OH doesn't carry contraceptives?