It appears the right wingers of the Bush Administration are feeling ignored and decided to engage in some saber rattling.

HHS Moves to Define Contraception as Abortion
Cristina Page Tue Jul 15, 9:07 PM ET

In a spectacular act of complicity with the religious right, the Department of Health and Human Services Monday released a proposal that allows any federal grant recipient to obstruct a woman’s access to contraception. In order to do this, the Department is attempting to redefine many forms of contraception, the birth control 40% of Americans use, as abortion. Doing so protects extremists under the Weldon and Church amendments. Those laws prohibit federal grant recipients from requiring employees to help provide or refer for abortion services. In the “Definitions” section of the HHS proposal it states,
“Abortion: An abortion is the termination of a pregnancy. There are two commonly held views on the question of when a pregnancy begins. Some consider a pregnancy to begin at conception (that is, the fertilization of the egg by the sperm), while others consider it to begin with implantation (when the embryo implants in the lining of the uterus). A 2001 Zogby International American Values poll revealed that 49% of Americans believe that human life begins at conception. Presumably many who hold this belief think that any action that destroys human life after conception is the termination of a pregnancy, and so would be included in their definition of the term “abortion.” Those who believe pregnancy begins at implantation believe the term “abortion” only includes the destruction of a human being after it has implanted in the lining of the uterus.”
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I hate to admit it but I had to actually do research to see who the Secretary of HHS is. It didn’t take long to find all I really needed to know:
Michael Okerlund Leavitt (born February 11, 1951 in Cedar City, Utah) is an American politician, and is currently the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

A US Republican, Leavitt was the 14th Governor of the State of Utah.

Mr. Leavitt has described the avian influenza virus as the most serious threat to American security.Source

It’s time to show Mr. Leavitt some love:
Mailing Address and Telephone Number

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
200 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20201
Telephone: 202-619-0257
Toll Free: 1-877-696-6775

I ask all of you to voice your displeasure with this act of lunacy. And while we’re at it maybe we should ask Mr. Leavitt how that avian flu thing worked out.