Abortion battles are just the tip of the iceberg...

Here come the real battles: do pharmacists have to fill precriptions that they don't agree with? Women are increasingly running into difficulty getting their birth-control prescriptions filled, as individual pharmacists refuse to dispense the pills or transfer the prescription elsewhere. Furthermore, a dozen states are considering legislation to allow this kind of front-line moralization.

"We have always understood that the battles about abortion were just the tip of a larger ideological iceberg, and that it's really birth control that they're after also," says Gloria Feldt, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

Bush's new "moral mandate" is only likely to add steam to this tactic -- backward we go again!

(via dailyKos)