Physicians, Nurses Oppose HHS Draft Regulations on Contraception

The Bush administration wants women to have the worst in reproductive healthcare. As an ob/gyn, I am proud to say that my colleagues and I won't stand for it. A few weeks ago, draft regulations under consideration by the Department of Health and Human Services surfaced in the press, rules that would expand the definition of abortion to include certain forms of birth control -- including IUDs and emergency contraception -- and allow healthcare providers to withhold these methods from their patients. In some cases the IUD is by far the safest and most effective method of birth control for women. I can't imagine hiding the IUD from my patients who need it, like a woman I recently treated who is living with breast cancer. Nor can I fathom treating the rape survivor in front of me without offering her EC. My patients come to me... [read full story]