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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Jul. 25, 2008

Health Department Proposal Undercuts State Birth Control Laws

A new Health Department proposal would subvert sensible state laws regulating birth control, writes Cristina Page. - Forum Column

FORUM COLUMN

By Cristina Page
This article appears on Page 6

      The Bush administration's Department of Health and Human Services has been called "ground zero for the ideological wars in this country," and a new Health Department proposal leaked this week proves why. In a spectacular act of complicity with extremists on the right, the Health Department is proposing to allow any federal grant recipient to obstruct a...

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