An anti-abortion ploy
SEATTLE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARDThe Bush administration has done a poor job of cloaking its latest end run around women's reproductive rights. A Department of Health and Human Services proposed rule would require health-care providers and other recipients of aid from federal health programs to certify they will not refuse to hire nurses and other providers who object to abortion and some birth control. No certification; no aid. Administration officials say the rule change is about employment discrimination. No, it clearly is a ploy to limit women's access to reproductive health care. The administration knows attaching strings to funding would have disastrous consequences on access to abortion and contraceptives by women.
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