A few days ago, Obama said he was "mulling over" revoking the "Conscience Rule" that would allow health care providers to refuse to perform an abortion and not have to worry about losing their jobs in doing so.
No longer.
The regulation, instituted in the last days of the Bush administration, strengthened job protections for doctors and nurses who refuse to provide a medial service because of moral qualms.A Health and Human Services official said Friday the administration will publish notice of its plans early next week, opening a 30-day comment period for advocates on both sides, medical groups and the public.A senior Obama administration official told FOX News the Bush regulation is too vague and could prevent some professionals from offering a full range of services to their patients.
"This policy of potentially allowing providers to refuse to provide contraception or family planning runs counter to the [Obama] administration's goal of reducing abortions and unwanted pregnancies," the official said. "It also could lead into other areas of medical care."
The regulation in question falls under the Department of Health and Human Services. Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, who has a long history of supporting abortion rights, has been nominated to head up the department, sparking an outcry from a number of conservative groups who worry she may influence the repeal of this regulation.
Does anyone think that the 30-day "comment period" will produce any other result than the repeal of this protection?
At what point do I lose my license to practice law if I refuse to do a gay adoption?
If you are truly "pro-choice," than this repeal should anger you since it leaves the health care provider with no choice.
6 comments:
An unjust law is not worth following period!
See you in Jail Digi ;)
well, actually as a practicing Catholic, I can refuse to do an aboriton and have my job protected under the civil rights act of 1964...unless my HMO or the Feds say that no other doc is available or it costs to much to hire another one.
As a lawyer, however, I'd say you are in big trouble.
How will a woman get the best care for her unborn child, when it is the pre-natal care is being provided by someone who doesn't care if the unborn child lives or not? Do we want all obstetricians to be this way?
When I first got pregnant (age 23), I miscarried at six weeks. I knew little about pre-natal development at the time, I only was beginning go to learn about human development in the womb. For two weeks I followed along online medical depictions of embryos, I bonded through these pictures. So naturally when I was going to like the pregnancy I was upset, the OB/GYN office didn't seem to care about it at all.
Doctors and lawyers are personal relationships, patients and clients are suppose to share their values with them. As a lawyer if one could not provide proper legal advice, we simply call up the local bar association's lawyer's referral service and find someone for the person in our office the right representation.
To this day many women can't even speak of their previous abortion to the Gyn provider, wouldn't a patient want to be able to pick a doctor who was more supportive of post-abortive women one way or the other.
Well, Digi, it sort of depends on whether the SCOTUS decides to deem gays a protected class, doesn't it?
As for "choice" - the trouble with that is that the "choicers" don't see any moral problem with abortion. And since their conscience would (they posit) be clear in such a case, anyone's should be.
:-(
Steph, you ARE next. I fear decent Catholics and other men and women of good will will have to do some civil disobedience and Jail time until this fool is deposed.
This makes my blood BOIL! I thought we lived in a free country. Forcing doctors to perform abortions because giving them their freedom runs counter to the administration's goal of reducing abortions--that just does not make sense unless your Satan! So as a nurse--if I refuse to assist in killings--I will lose my job--so be it! What kinda crazy is our President anyway?
And if the abortion agenda is such a small part of the Democratic agenda--then why is he passing so many laws, or overturning so many laws dealing with protecting human life?
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