Bush Regulations Could Limit Access to Contraception for Millions of American Women: Where Does John McCain Stand?
The Bush administration has just proposed a regulation that would allow healthcare providers at their discretion to refuse to provide women with certain types of contraception. This includes emergency contraception, or what is sometimes referred to as the “Morning After” pill, which is almost always administered to women after they have been raped.
Under the proposed regulation, hospitals and state regulators could not force physicians to prescribe or even to tell women of their options concerning certain pharmaceuticals or procedures when the physicians themselves object on moral grounds.
The question is, where does John McCain stand on this critical health issue?
If McCain supports the new regulation, he will anger women who do not want further government intrusion in matters of their reproductive health.
If McCain opposes the regulation, he will provoke many of his supporters on the right who will see his position as an indication that he is soft in his support for right-to-life issues they hold dear.
Most likely, McCain will simply give a non-answer such as, “I am opposed to abortion.” Or his campaign will produce some rhetorical contortion that will seem comical to voters.
Bush has created a no-win situation for McCain.