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New Rules Proposed Would Allow Providers To Refuse Abortions

Washington, D.C.- There are new rules that are being proposed by the Bush Administration for health Care workers in the United States, rules that would provide a method or ability for providers to refuse to provide abortions.

The new rules are meeting stiff opposition and controversy from the Right to Choose factions in America, and many that are pro abortion see it as a thinly veiled attempt to regulate a woman’s right to choose.

The new rules would take effect potentially after a 30 day period of discussion and comment, and they would threaten stiff federal funding cutoffs to those state governments or groups that stand in the way.

It is part of a stronger federal health care set of rules for those providers that wish to refuse to participate in access to birth control, abortion and other forms of contraception.

The early drafts of the new regulations had defined abortion to include different contraceptive pills, and even intrauterine devices usage.

It is a new set of regulations that is causing a huge outcry, and the 42 page document is being held up by the Democratic party and others in the right to choose movement as an assault on women’s rights that they believe are protected in earlier Supreme Court decisions.