The Bush administration has been trying for months to enact a rule that could severely limit access to birth control, emergency contraception and other reproductive health services. Now, despite fierce protests from doctors, pharmacy groups, women’s rights groups and congressional leaders, the Department of Health and Human Services has exhumed the rule—which some thought dead after months of outcry—and is trying to implement its sweeping restrictions.
The administration has said the rule is necessary to protect workers, but on Tuesday the New York Times reported that three officials from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, one of them a Bush appointee, publicly criticized the move, saying it would overturn decades of established civil rights law.
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