Subject: Re: [Homestead] Rolling Back Women's Rights
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 15:25:52 -0800
Original Message ----- From: Lynda<mailto:lurine AT softcom.net>
> November 23, 2004 EDITORIAL Rolling Back Women's Rights
> Dispensing with legislative niceties like holding hearings or full and open
> debate, President Bush and the Republican Congress have used the cover of a
> must-pass spending bill to mount a disgraceful sneak attack on women's
> health and freedom.
> Tucked into the $388 billion budget measure just approved by the House and
> Senate is a sweeping provision that
> has nothing to do with the task Congress had at hand - providing money for
> the government.
> In essence, it tells health care companies, hospitals and insurance
> companies they are free to ignore Roe v. Wade and state and local laws and
> regulations currently on the books to make certain that women's access to
> reproductive health services includes access to abortion.