When will women in the USA again be safe from bias and gender discrimiantion?

Every time legislation is passed that seeks to control the outcomes of a woman's uterus, it is gender discrimination. Men don't have these issues and the Republicans chronically seek to moralize over a woman's right to her own body. Now, it isn't enough to deny women the right to an abortion, but, it is moral grounds to force them into those decisions. This is oppression in its purest form.

Broader medical refusal rule may go far beyond abortion (click title to entry, thank you)
The Bush administration plans a new 'right of conscience' rule that would allow more workers to refuse more procedures. Critics say it could apply to artificial insemination and birth control.
By David G. Savage

December 2, 2008

Reporting from Washington -- The outgoing Bush administration is planning to announce a broad new "right of conscience" rule permitting medical facilities, doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare workers to refuse to participate in any procedure they find morally objectionable, including abortion and possibly even artificial insemination and birth control.

For more than 30 years, federal law has dictated that doctors and nurses may refuse to perform abortions. The new rule would go further by making clear that healthcare workers also may refuse to provide information or advice to patients who might want an abortion.It also seeks to cover more employees. For example, in addition to a surgeon and a nurse in an operating room, the rule would extend to "an employee whose task it is to clean the instruments," the draft rule said....