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President Begins Overturning “Conscience Rule” for Pro-life Doctors

Written by Entity

Monday, 02 March 2009 12:30

From Catholic Online:

President Obama quietly begun the process of overturning regulations that protect doctors and hospitals from being forced to perform or refer abortions. The Chicago Tribune reports that President Obama is directing the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to begin overturning the conscience rule that protects medical providers who are pro-life.

This pullback comes only months after the Bush administration strengthened the rule by placing penalties on facilities that subject pro-life doctors, nurses, or other medical workers to discrimination over the issue of abortion.

Comments

PinocchiosFurniture - Absolutely Untrue

|2009-03-02 20:35:52

The claims in the article are absolutely untrue....and Catholic Online should be ashamed and repent of making such false claims.

The reality is that the Bush Administration hastily crafted the 'rule' in the waning days of his Presidency, and the 'rule' has left even the most ardent pro-choice supporters questioning its effectiveness.

Dozens of laws already on the books protect medical professionals and their conscientious objection to medical procedures they believe violate their religious rights and beliefs.

Nothing by the action of the Obama Administration lessens those rights.

What Obama's rescicion of the Bush 'rule' does is to clarify just who is protected.

Under the hastily and badly crafted Bush "rule", anyone, from cashiers to wheelchair-pushers to janitors, could 'object' by failing to provide needed medical services based on "religious" principal alone.

Even the most ardent anti-arbortion foes have recognized this rule was fully flawed and never intended to serve the extent offered.

Obama's actions are supported by even the most ardent anti-abortionists and is the most sensible, most ethical, and most entirely practical method to protect 'actual' medical personnel and their consciences.

steves

|2009-03-02 21:39:22

What you don't realize is that dishonest claims are par for the course for Catholic Online. Catholic Online is not a respectable news source attempting to educate it's audience, it's just another website catering to extremist whackos. You may as well chide Rapture Ready or Free Republic.

laika

|2009-03-02 22:58:42

PinocchiosFurniture wrote:

Dozens of laws already on the books protect medical professionals and their conscientious objection to medical procedures they believe violate their religious rights and beliefs.

yup. this at best is Feel Good legislation, but it's pretty obvious that it's really just another desperate legacy building attempt by W(orst).

PinocchiosFurniture wrote:

Under the hastily and badly crafted Bush "rule", anyone, from cashiers to wheelchair-pushers to janitors, could 'object' by failing to provide needed medical services based on "religious" principal alone.

yup again. just what the world needs is some Scientologist pharmacist refusing me my Effexor because the dispensing of anti-depressants violates his conscience :-)

Entity - re: Absolutely Untrue

|2009-03-03 09:45:44

PinocchiosFurniture wrote:

So a nurse's aide should not have the right to refuse to push a woman in a wheelchair to obtain an abortion? Next you will say that a Nazi guard shouldn't have had a right to opt out of gassing Jews.

PinocchiosFurniture wrote:

Obama's actions are supported by even the most ardent anti-abortionists and is the most sensible, most ethical, and most entirely practical method to protect 'actual' medical personnel and their consciences.

Seeing as Obama wants to sign the Freedom of Choice Act which will strike down conscience clauses for doctors and hospitals, this is seen as the first step and is opposed by most pro-lifers. I don't see why anyone should be forced to participate in abortion, embryonic stem cell research, euthanasia, or in vitro fertilization. Perhaps you can explain it.

emperorbma

|2009-03-03 19:04:30

Quote:

Perhaps you can explain it.

I betcha I know why. They think "embryonic stem cells" are the next miracle cure and that the blase' attitude of most people about sex proves that this is just the way it is and we shouldn't try to change it.

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