A novel set of health laws that could be planned by the government for a moment in the next few weeks has women's health activists blistering. In consideration of the fact that, if the laws are implemented, they claim, women will have a harder time getting access to contraception. The legislation, a draft of which was disclosed last week to the New York Times, puts fuel on the arguments over when human life begins by taking the position that birth control tends to prevent the implantation of a fertilized egg actually results in abortion.

However it would actually deprived the mother from getting federally funded medical facilities—including teaching hospitals and Planned Parenthood clinics—from refusing to hire doctors who don't want to give out birth control pills and other types of contraception that may cause the removal of a fertilized egg. (It's already illegal to discriminate against doctors who refuse to perform abortions.) The new laws would also take priority over state laws that require hospitals to offer emergency contraception to rape victims and those that require employers to provide contraceptives along with other prescriptions.  "Those supporting the new regulations believe in a stricter definition of conception: Life starts at fertilization. Contraception that acts as an abortifacient is "clearly the destruction of a human being at [its] earliest stages of development," says Deirdre McQuade, assistant director of policy and communications at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Pro-Life Secretariat."

Most of the health organizations, as well as the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Medical Association, expressed their fierce opposition, saying that such a rule would contradict women right of entry to full reproductive care. And more than 200,000 Planned Parenthood members filed comments against the rule, organization Vice President Laurie Rubiner tells. One of the concerns moved up—including by me—was whether patients would even be informed of their doctor's negative response to administer certain procedures or if they would simply be kept in the dark about their options.