Two editorials on Bush's attack on birth control

In the news this morning, there were two great editorials about Bush's attack on birth control that I wanted to highlight here. The first is from The Boston Globe, titled "A new attack on birth control:"

The draft proposed rule highlights the fact that many antiabortion groups also oppose one good method of preventing the unplanned pregnancies that lead to abortions - birth control. At some point in their lives, 98 percent of US women use birth control.

The proposed rule, while claiming to protect the rights of nurses and doctors, would interfere with patients' rights. A woman seeking treatment could be denied birth control and not even be aware that the service was available - only denied to her because of the unexpressed personal beliefs of the practitioner.

The second editorial comes from the San Jose Mercury News, titled "Defeat Bush's last stand against abortion:"

President Bush has spent his eight years in office fighting a social war against American women's right to choose. Now he is orchestrating one last campaign to try to curb abortion. This is one surge that must be defeated.

The Bush administration knows it can't win this fight in Congress. So its latest effort is a draft proposal by the Department of Health and Human Services that purports to clarify workers' rights to refuse to provide abortions.

I would also like to point out that a McCain presidency would only mean FOUR MORE YEARS of the same attacks on our reproductive freedom. YIKES! 

Please take a moment, if you haven't done so already, to take action to tell your member of Congress that you support their efforts to get the Bush administration to reconsider this terrible idea.

Oh, and watch this thoroughly entertaining vlog, Mamma Mia, here Bush goes again!