{"id":559,"date":"2004-01-23T15:46:47","date_gmt":"2004-01-23T23:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/01\/23\/the-freedom-of-choice-act\/"},"modified":"2004-01-23T15:46:47","modified_gmt":"2004-01-23T23:46:47","slug":"the-freedom-of-choice-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=559","title":{"rendered":"The Freedom of Choice Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/z?c108:H.R.3719:\">The Freedom of Choice Act<\/a> has been introduced in the House and Senate, and will (I predict) die in committee. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/about\/pr\/040122_FOCA.html\">FOCA, if it became law, would:<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"snip\">&#8230;prevent the government from discriminating against a woman on the basis of her reproductive decisions, about using birth control, having a child, or terminating a pregnancy. FOCA would also forbid government interference in a woman&#8217;s right to make her own family planning and reproductive health decisions. The legislation would invalidate current restrictions on access to abortion and family planning health care services such as mandated delays and targeted and medically unnecessary regulations.<\/div>\n<p>Although it won&#8217;t pass, it&#8217;s still good to support this bill &#8211; both for its symbolic importance, and to get the idea of a <i>bill <\/i>declaring &#8220;reproductive decisions are between a woman, her doctor and her god&#8221; in play. The pro-lifers don&#8217;t wait until they can pass a bill (like the &#8220;partial-birth&#8221; abortion ban) before proposing it; instead, they propose their bills year after year, rain or shine, minority or majority, until something eventually sticks. In this, we should imitate them.<\/p>\n<p>NARAL has <a href=\"http:\/\/prochoiceaction.org\/campaign\/foca_petition\">an online petition <\/a>you can sign to support FOCA.<a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?p=cheapest-viagra-online\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Freedom of Choice Act has been introduced in the House and Senate, and will (I predict) die in committee. FOCA, if it became law, would:: &#8230;prevent the government from discriminating against a woman on the basis of her reproductive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=559\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion-reproductive-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}