Human Life Amendment

Watch out for the Human Life Amendment on the ballot in many states this November. It defines constitutional humanity as beginning at the moment of conception and would effectively outlaw many kinds of birth control such as the pill and IUD's. This would render moot the current administrative push to give all health care workers the right to refuse to administer or dispense any medication that runs counter to their religious belief, thereby throwing road blocks in the ability of women to gain access to morning after pills and by extension most forms of contraception. Anti-abortion forces are anti-contraception, because of the thought that some forms of contraception might prevent the attachment of a fertilized egg.
This is why John McCain hemmed and hawed at the question of whether he would support health insurance coverage of contraception, since all cover Viagra, but not all cover contraception. He did not answer the question. He said he would have to see where he stood on that.
Remember the orphanages of Romania. They were the consequences of a regime that outlawed abortion and contraception.