Occasionally the Bush Administration proves it's never too busy destroying nations to harass the least among us.

Take for example the recently revised and re-introduced Health & Human Services regulation known as the 'Conscience Rule.' This pending regulation masquerades as an anti-discrimination measure, protecting the careers of people who... oh let's just say it plain and simple, selectively refuse to do their jobs. It allows finger-wagging health care providers (doctors, nurses, pharmacists etc.) to refuse family planning services and/or related medical care based on their own personal beliefs (...and perhaps even one's looks - who's gonna know?). While it obviously chips at abortion rights, it's vague enough to also protect those who won't dispense or even discuss some birth control methods.

Read about it here.
Oppose it here.

Grounded in family and rich in deprivation, Mr. Rankin is a U.S. Naval Veteran and engineering designer living near Akron, Ohio, where he and many are increasingly challenged by debt, inflation, wage suppression and the exodus of core industries. He is politically self-educated: a socially and environmentally progressive liberal. Outraged by the contemporary U.S. Government and it's lap-dog press, he is increasingly determined to help expose today's combination of corporatism, nationalism and militant imperialism for what it is - plain old fascism.