{"id":3272,"date":"2005-04-14T20:43:04","date_gmt":"2005-04-15T03:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/04\/14\/the-next-logical-step\/"},"modified":"2019-12-13T12:04:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T20:04:24","slug":"the-next-logical-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/04\/14\/the-next-logical-step\/","title":{"rendered":"The next logical step"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:8452,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2005\\\/POLITICS\\\/04\\\/14\\\/prescription.bill\\\/index.html?section=cnn_topstories&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2005\\\/POLITICS\\\/04\\\/14\\\/prescription.bill\\\/index.html?section=cnn_topstories&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6221,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>First, the good news (and, for once, this <em>is<\/em> good news): federal legislation is being introduced that will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/POLITICS\/04\/14\/prescription.bill\/index.html?section=cnn_topstories\" title=\"CNN: Congress to consider birth control bill\">protect a woman&#8217;s ability to get birth control<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Reports of pharmacists with particular religious and moral beliefs denying prescriptions for birth control have prompted legislation that would ensure all prescriptions are filled.<\/p>\n<p>  House and Senate backers unveiled a bill dubbed the Access to Legal Pharmaceuticals Act (ALPhA) on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>  It would allow a pharmacist to refuse to fill a prescription only if the prescription can be passed to and filled by a co-worker at the same pharmacy.<\/p>\n<p>  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;What have we come to in this country?&#8221; Rep. Carolyn Maloney, a New York Democrat and House sponsor of the bill, said Thursday morning at a rally on Capitol Hill. &#8220;We are merely saying, &#8216;let the laws in this country stand.&#8217; Let a woman be treated with dignity. When she has a prescription from her doctor, that privacy should be respected.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The bad news comes later on in the article, with someone applying the same ridiculous extrapolations that lead anti-gay-marriage bigots to claim that eventually we&#8217;ll be marrying our pets and children.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  [Karen] Brauer told Reuters she believes doctors will eventually begin ordering women to abort disabled children, or refuse to treat them after birth.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;They&#8217;ll force women to kill their children &#8230; It will be like China. It&#8217;s the next logical step,&#8221; she told Reuters.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s absolutely mind-boggling to me that there are people out there who think like this &#8212; who actually <em>believe<\/em> this crap.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iTunes\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" \/> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FsongTerm=Hurdy Gurdy Man, The%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Hurdy Gurdy Man, The' on the iTMS\">Hurdy Gurdy Man, The<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DButthole Surfers%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for Butthole Surfers on the iTMS\">Butthole Surfers<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FalbumTerm=Hurdy Gurdy Man, The%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for Hurdy Gurdy Man, The on the iTMS\">Hurdy Gurdy Man, The<\/a><\/em> (1990, 4:01).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, the good news (and, for once, this _is_ good news): federal legislation is being introduced that will protect a woman&#8217;s ability to get birth control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[13,39],"class_list":["post-3272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-life","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}