Tell me this is Bull shit!!!

[silvermoonmagic]

 Is this a bill that has actually been passed or just something that the government is considering? I mean given the context of this article, which was posted on a web board that I am a part of, it appears that it is not actually a law but I am confused......Help!

Comments

[phiregod]

well the article in the lj-cut seems quite biased. I'd go to the source and try to find the bills in question... which this article never makes mention. Terms such as radical-right and anti-choice representatives also make me weary of the article. While i dont disagree with the letter itself I dont know if I can trust the article especially when the poster it seems says that she heard it from her daughter who heard it from someone else. I am curious and would like to know more, though from a more unbiased source.

[jijnasa]

I think that just means that some old farts with political office made an official statement that they are against birth control pills. Otherwise they would've had to have overturned Roe v. Wade, and Bush hasn't appointed enough Supreme Court Justices to do that yet.

[krhazy]

it sounds kind of fishy to me

[jonlaor]

It's not a bill. There's certain parts of the law that are grey areas that are decided in courts.

The issue here isn't whether all birth control pills are gone, but whether a specific pharmacy can decide not to give it. State courts may have sided w/ these vigilante pharmacies in certain areas, and apparently certain state legislatures as well. There's no federal law.

In fact, abortion (which is different but clearly connected to birth-contrl) was never legalized in Congress, it was legalized by the Supreme Court against Congress based on the idea that abortion is part of your constitutional right to privacy.

The people who wrote this want to support a bill forcing the vigilante pharmacies to give the birth control to people w/ prescriptions. I highly doubt that this will pass, considering that the Republicans control the majority of congress and many Democrats in congress oppose abortion as well.

[kiarrith]

actually this is true, i believe. pharmacists now have the right to refuse service. can just go elsewhere. unsure which states its true in though.