Women's Health care services after merger

Many of you are aware that after the hospital mergers here in Kingston, the Foxhall Ambulatory building housed women's reproductive health services,including abortion. But for the past few months there has been no doctor on staff to provide such services.
Today's NYT has an editorial calling on states to ensure all essential services are maintained post-mergers. The editorial makes it seem that this is promlematic only in rural areas...but it is happening here!
(The editorial mentions Merger Watch...)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/29/opinion/womens-health-care-at-risk.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Proposed Funding Ruling

The Bush administration is proposing that all healthcare providers receiving federal aid will certify that they will not refuse to hire nurses and other providers who object to abortion and even certain types of birth control (because certain people are defining the beginning of life from when an egg meets sperm). This is one more step away from healthcare providers really providing healthcare for women.
On the flip side, is there support for the children thus conceived so they may have a productive life--you know adequate pre-natal care, healthcare, child care, education???
Under the draft of a proposed rule, hospitals, clinics, researchers and medical schools would have to sign "written certifications" as a prerequisite to getting money under any program run by the Department of Health and Human Services.

Voice your opinion directly to the Sec. of HSS:
HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt . Contact Information
Office Phone: 202-690-7000
Email: mike.leavitt@hhs.gov Fax: 202-690-7203
Correspondence Secretary: 202-690-6392
(Outside of the DC/metro area call tollfree 877-696-6775 -- ask to be transferred to the Secretary's office.)