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	<title><![CDATA[HHS Moves to Define Contraception as Abortion]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cristina-page/hhs-moves-to-define-contr_b_112887.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>In a spectacular act of complicity with the religious right, the Department of Health and Human Services Monday released a proposal that allows any federal grant recipient to obstruct a woman's access to contraception. In order to do this, the Department is attempting to redefine many forms of contraception, the birth control 40% of Americans use, as abortion. Doing so protects extremists under the Weldon and Church amendments. Those laws prohibit federal grant recipients from requiring employees to help provide...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-02-25T14:13:00-05:00</date_published>
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