The very site that played a major role in her campaign's fall; the very site that perpetuated every lie and hateful rumor against her and her husband?

Oh, how I yearn for a nominee who might actually get a little hot under the collar about this move by HHS, and use his bully pulpit - currently being filmed 24/7 and sucking all the oxygen out of the arena - to call BS on those responsible for it.

What we will likely get?  A speech, or a lecture on morality, and a stirring reminder of the heavy burden of conscience carried by health care providers, who are, after all, people with feelings, too, ya know? [and they vote, too, so gotta be careful!]  Maybe he can remind us that it couldn't be that hard to just find another pharmacy, find another doctor, find another hospital; hey, I think the Lieberman Cab Company is still in business.

I don't care about the NARAL endorsement, and I don't care about the voting record.  This is a person who acts only when it is safe to do so, after others have taken the heat, and he can see what political price he will have to pay for agreeing.

No spine, no courage, no core.

Oh, and he needs to collect those passport ink-stamps at the various airports to BOOST his "foreign policy credentials." +rolls eyes+

Maybe he'll return with a bunch of souvenirs and Hard Rock Cafe city-T'shirts* to show he's now fit to be President.

From Planned Parenthood:

How Does an IUD Work?

[Note that the ParaGard and the Mirena are the two forms of IUD]
Both the ParaGard and the Mirena IUDs affect the way sperm move, preventing them from joining with an egg. If sperm cannot join with an egg, pregnancy cannot happen. Both types also alter the lining of the uterus. Some people say that this keeps a fertilized egg from attaching to the lining of the uterus. But there is no proof that this actually happens.

The progestin in the Mirena IUD helps prevent pregnancy. Progestin works by keeping a woman's ovaries from releasing eggs -- ovulation. Pregnancy cannot happen if there is no egg to join with sperm. Progestin also prevents pregnancy by thickening a woman's cervical mucus. The mucus blocks sperm and keeps it from joining with an egg.

Nice how that works -- when they work, of course, and if guys are willing to do the work.

[The Pill} work[s] by stopping ovulation (release of an egg) and by inhibiting the movement of sperm.

[[IUD's] work by changing the the the lining of the uterus and fallopian tubes affecting the movements of eggs and sperm and so that fertilization does not occur.

And therefor they would not, theoretically, be something women under gvt-funded health-care would be allowed to be barred from accessing?

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is poised to put in place new barriers to accessing common forms of contraception like birth control pills, emergency contraception and IUDs by labeling them "abortion."