Buschland, Buschland, Ueber alles! Ueber alles im Den Welt! Wenn es stetz zu Gelt und Gott-lust Kumpanei Zusammenhaelt! Von der Weisshaus an das Crawford Von der GOP an Christian-Rechts Die Fahne hoch! Die Reihen fest geschlossen! NeoCons marschiert mit ruhig festem Schritt. Kameraden, die Gotloss und Liberale gestoert, Marschieren im Geist in unseren Reihen mit, Die Wall-Strasse frei den Pluenderer Boersenmakler. Die Schuele frei den Christian-Herrschaflichtsmann! Es schaun aufs Kreuz voll Hoffnung schon Millionen Der tag fuer Freiheit und fuer Christ bricht an!
Despite the supposed majority of the country and "my" president believing in tripe like this Roe V Wade still stands, so I continue to hold out some hope.
As a medical fact, women are born with all of the eggs they will ever have, so the logical extension is that a child's life begins when the grandmother conceives. I'm certain the Baptists would embrace that medical fact and logical extension, since it allows them so much more guilt leverage over the details of when a woman has sex.
The leaked official document can be found here (http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/emailphotos/pdf/HHS-45-CFR.pdf).
The challenge is that, like so many other things (the Doctor's Draft, for example) the proposed regulations are only pseudo-existing so far -- as far as I can tell from the document and related information I've been able to dig up so far, they haven't been offically proposed (for example, in the leaked draft, there's only a "fill-in-the-blank" for the comment period. So it's challenging to actually figure out what the full plan of action will be on a proposed change that hasn't actually been formally proposed yet.
From what I can tell (and lawyers, please jump in), what HHS proposes is not new law, but instead it's interpretation of existing law. In other words, HHS appears to be proposing new procedures that it will expect it's clients (which in this case, are all medical providers and facilities recieving federal funds germane to this situation) to obey. Because it is an internal regulation, rather than law, HHS does not need anyone's approval to carry out said rule changes. There's supposed to be a comment period, but HHS is under no obligation to actually listen to any of those comments. In other words, as I understand, the only thing required for implementation of the new definitions and procedures is for HHS to say so.
Now, Congress could pass new law that explicitly states HHS cannot do what HHS claims existing law allows it to do. Hence the contacting of Congresspeople. Except that any such law would have to go through Bush; or failing that, go through a 2/3rds majority of House and Senate to override. Or, a new administration in January 2009, appointing new leadership at HHS, could reverse these rules by the same authority the current administration and HHS leadership put them in, in the first place.
But to sum up; basically, as I understand, if HHS wants to do this, it can, and nobody can stop them without getting a law passed or changing the leadership at HHS (which means changing the leadership at the White House that appointed the leadership at HHS).
Given Bush actually vetoed an attempt to prevent a 10% cut in funding to health care for the elderly, children, and military families (long story, has to do with Bush wanting to continue subsidies for for-profit insurance companies), and just coming off *that* multi-week fight literally two days ago (link (http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/18788.html)), well, no rest for the weary, eh?
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Date: 2008-07-16 02:25 am (UTC)Ueber alles im Den Welt!
Wenn es stetz zu Gelt und Gott-lust
Kumpanei Zusammenhaelt!
Von der Weisshaus an das Crawford
Von der GOP an Christian-Rechts
Die Fahne hoch! Die Reihen fest geschlossen!
NeoCons marschiert mit ruhig festem Schritt.
Kameraden, die Gotloss und Liberale gestoert,
Marschieren im Geist in unseren Reihen mit,
Die Wall-Strasse frei den Pluenderer Boersenmakler.
Die Schuele frei den Christian-Herrschaflichtsmann!
Es schaun aufs Kreuz voll Hoffnung schon Millionen
Der tag fuer Freiheit und fuer Christ bricht an!
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Date: 2008-07-16 03:13 am (UTC)No.
Date: 2008-07-16 03:38 am (UTC)That bothers me so very, very much.
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Date: 2008-07-16 04:03 am (UTC)This must be stopped! Americans! To arms!! Well.. not literally.. but write your local politician or something to try and stop this. :X
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Date: 2008-07-16 07:14 am (UTC)Why not? What will it take?
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Date: 2008-07-16 12:22 pm (UTC)1. "Life begins at penetration", so saying "no" after things start is murder.
2. "Life begins at lust", so saying "no" is illegal.
3. "Life begins at menstruation", so not being pregnant is illegal.
At that point, women will have finally taken their proper role, according to the Baptists.
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Date: 2008-07-16 11:53 am (UTC)The war on sex continues - gods it's insane
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Date: 2008-07-16 01:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-07-16 02:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-07-16 09:11 pm (UTC)The leaked official document can be found here (http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/emailphotos/pdf/HHS-45-CFR.pdf).
The challenge is that, like so many other things (the Doctor's Draft, for example) the proposed regulations are only pseudo-existing so far -- as far as I can tell from the document and related information I've been able to dig up so far, they haven't been offically proposed (for example, in the leaked draft, there's only a "fill-in-the-blank" for the comment period. So it's challenging to actually figure out what the full plan of action will be on a proposed change that hasn't actually been formally proposed yet.
From what I can tell (and lawyers, please jump in), what HHS proposes is not new law, but instead it's interpretation of existing law. In other words, HHS appears to be proposing new procedures that it will expect it's clients (which in this case, are all medical providers and facilities recieving federal funds germane to this situation) to obey. Because it is an internal regulation, rather than law, HHS does not need anyone's approval to carry out said rule changes. There's supposed to be a comment period, but HHS is under no obligation to actually listen to any of those comments. In other words, as I understand, the only thing required for implementation of the new definitions and procedures is for HHS to say so.
Now, Congress could pass new law that explicitly states HHS cannot do what HHS claims existing law allows it to do. Hence the contacting of Congresspeople. Except that any such law would have to go through Bush; or failing that, go through a 2/3rds majority of House and Senate to override. Or, a new administration in January 2009, appointing new leadership at HHS, could reverse these rules by the same authority the current administration and HHS leadership put them in, in the first place.
But to sum up; basically, as I understand, if HHS wants to do this, it can, and nobody can stop them without getting a law passed or changing the leadership at HHS (which means changing the leadership at the White House that appointed the leadership at HHS).
Given Bush actually vetoed an attempt to prevent a 10% cut in funding to health care for the elderly, children, and military families (long story, has to do with Bush wanting to continue subsidies for for-profit insurance companies), and just coming off *that* multi-week fight literally two days ago (link (http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/18788.html)), well, no rest for the weary, eh?
Sigh.