That’s right, baby killers! The next time you’re tempted to make your girlfriend’s face look like it just went through a Krispy Kreme glazer, you might want to think about the heavenly soul you’re blocking from entering this world.

The Bush administration has just threatened all health organizations and facilities, including women’s clinics, declaring that they would no longer receive federal funding if they choose not to hire nurses and other employees who refuse to perform abortions or offer birth control. In other words, if Planned Parenthood wants to keep legitimately helping millions of teens each year, it has to agree to hire people who object to doing just that. Either that, or they need to polish up on their conversational skills, ’cause that’s all they’ll be able to offer.

Bush’s proposal, citing a 2001 Zogby poll, defines abortion as any drug, procedure or action that “results in the termination of the life of a human being in utero between conception and natural birth, whether before or after implantation.”

Birth control prevents conception. I think we’re all in agreement there. But calling it abortion because implantation of a fertilized egg does not take place is about as psychotically absurd as it gets. Under that same definition, menstruation is abortion. So is pulling out. No sense even talking about condoms. Full Article »