Association of Reproductive Health Professionals Alert
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The Association of Reproductive Health Professionals issued this alert to it’s membership. Please consider following this link to easily and electronically express your opinion about this proposal to HHS Secretary Leavitt.
http://capwiz.com/nfprha/home/
Dear ARHP member,
We have an urgent matter to bring to your attention. Recently, the Bush Administration proposed new regulations under which the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) would redefine pregnancy as beginning prior to implantation and adopt a definition of abortion that includes many forms of contraception, including some birth control pills, IUDs, and emergency contraception. Both of these proposed definitions are alarmingly at odds with science. This regulation would also allow health care providers and facility staff to refuse to provide any medical service – if doing so would violate their moral beliefs.
If adopted, the new regulations could mean that providers of federally-funded family planning services could no longer guarantee their patients access to contraception. We cannot tolerate this last ditch attack on family planning as the Bush Administration prepares to leave office.
To make it quick and easy for you to learn more about and take action on this outrageous proposal, ARHP has partnered with our colleagues at the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA). Please click here (http://capwiz.com/nfprha/home/) to easily and electronically express your opinion about this proposal to HHS Secretary Leavitt.
Thank you for your quick response on this critical issue.
Sincerely,
ARHP Policy Team
