No, I don't believe that but apparently the Department of Health and Human services is allowing that line of logic to seep into policy changes. This story vis a vis alternet illustrates how some pro life advocates are using the issue of abortion to create doubt about birth control and limit access to it. This is not a new tactic, what is new is the potential for it to become official policy.
The Health and Human Services Department is proposing an amendment to current policies. The amendment is being done under the guise of recognizing religious freedom and the expression of. The proposal is as follows...
which says it is merely revising existing federal rules that allow health-care personnel to opt out of performing an abortion if they have a moral or religious objection to the procedure.
My thought would be that if one was a health care provider ( I am ) the most prudent thing to do would be not to say work at a health clinic or facility that provides abortions. I am a nurse and the great thing about nursing is the broad range of employment opportunities available that do not involve taking care of patient who have had abortions if one is pro life.
However, abortion is defined rather broadly....
The draft regulation would redefine abortion to include "any of the various procedures -- including the prescription, dispensing and administration of any drug or the performance of any procedure or any other action -- that results in the termination of the life of a human being in utero between conception and natural birth, whether before or after implantation
The best part is that it is tied to funding.
It estimates that about 504,000 recipients of federal funds -- including any hospital or doctor who participates in Medicare and Medicaid -- would have to allow its staff to exercise its individual birth-control conscience. It defines a health care "entity" to include health maintenance organizations and other insurance plans -- language indicating that federal employees who receive insurance through the government also could be affected.
There are other theoretical scenarios that could easily emerge if this policy was enacted. Workers might be able to argue that even if they are not being forced to dispense offending items their religious freedom or civil rights are still being violated by the actions of others. Or false claims about being forced to go against their consciences could result in funding being curbed.
This proposal could also undermine existing state laws that require pharmacies and health care institutions to provide emergency birth control.
Six states have laws ensuring that pharmacies will fill birth control prescriptions and 27 have laws guaranteeing equity in insurance prescription coverage for contraception, according to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., Fourteen states currently have laws guaranteeing rape victims access to emergency contraception.
If we allow the right to define birth control as abortion we will be fulfilling their plan to populate the planet until we all just fall off the edge because after all the world is flat, right? We won't need Armageddon through weaponry.
If the policy proposal was enacted and John McCain became president he could easily claim he doesn't agree with it but is not inclined to change it.
How much further proof do we need that he right hates and fears women and despises any expression of sexuality that is unconnected to reproduction?