Daughter of former Texas governor, Ann Richards. That explains it.
Posted on 02/15/2018 1:15:16 PM PST by Morgana
For the second time in two months, the outgoing president of the Planned Parenthood abortion business has said that Christian doctors and nurses ought to be forced to perform abortions.
Last month, Cecile Richards sent an email to supporters of the Planned Parenthood abortion company asking them to contact the Department of Health and Human Services to reject proposed guidelines protecting the conscience rights of medical professionals who don’t want to be forced to be involved in abortions by either killing unborn children or referring patients for abortions. Without such conscience protections, pro-life doctors, Christian medical workers, and others who do not want to be abortion participants would be forced to be involved in abortions — as has happened in numerous cases across the country and around the world.
Richards sent Planned Parenthood abortion activists a follow-up email today asking them to once again speak out against conscience rights for medical professionals.
“President Trump continues to outdo himself when it comes to pushing terrible health care policy that will do nothing but hurt patients,” Richards claims in the new email. “But his latest attack is truly shameful: a proposed rule released by HHS seeks to encourage health care workers to discriminate against patients by refusing to provide care because of religious, moral, or personal objections.”
“Heath care workers might refuse to treat a person seeking an abortion,” Richards adds.
As always, Richards wraps the opposition in language of women;s rights of reproductive health — never mind that women can access abortion at hundreds of locations nationwide without forcing Christian medical professionals to perform or refer for abortions:
HHS is collecting official public comments on this outrageous new proposal, and it’s our best opportunity to stop it before it becomes the law — impacting people everywhere across the country.
Take a moment to submit your official comment to HHS: Don’t encourage discrimination against people seeking health care.
The number of comments we collect can be used in legal challenges to stop these attacks — so your submission really matters (and it only takes two minutes!).
SIGN THE PETITION! Congress Must De-Fund Planned Parenthood Immediately
Make no mistake: This is nothing but Trump’s latest attempt to prevent people from getting the care they need, simply because of who they are, whom they love, or the kind of care they seek. To make matters worse, two weeks ago the administration issued new guidance encouraging states to block Medicaid patients from getting care at Planned Parenthood health centers.
In each and every one of Trump’s attacks on reproductive health care, it’s patients who are hurt the most. From people living with HIV to trans people to those seeking abortions, these attacks make it even harder for people to access care.
Richards had the same request of abortion proponents last month. In fact, the text of the two action alerts appears identical.
As LifeNews reported, Trump launched a new division within the Department of Health and Human Services to protect nurses and doctors who don’t want to perform abortions. The division will protect anyone who has a “moral objection” to involvement in an abortion because it kills an unborn child before birth.
“The Conscience and Religious Freedom Division has been established to restore federal enforcement of our nation’s laws that protect the fundamental and unalienable rights of conscience and religious freedom,” HHS Acting Secretary Eric Hargan said upon announcement. “The Conscience and Religious Freedom Division has been established to restore federal enforcement of our nation’s laws that protect the fundamental and unalienable rights of conscience and religious freedom.”
There are plenty of places a woman can go for an abortion without forcing someone else to violate their principles.
Another reason I love President Trump!
Cecile Richards sounds like a Nazi.
Does this mean Doctors should be able to Force Planned Parenthood to do Mammograms and Adoptions to better protect womens rights??
Daughter of former Texas governor, Ann Richards. That explains it.
Hey Cecile!
As long as you support the idea of “forcing” people to act against their will, I have a few suggestions for you.....
Slavery was outlawed.
She must not have gotten the memo...................
Force Cecile Richards to emigrate to Africa
Bad person with bad ideas.
Why, why, why is the Federal Government providing funds to Planned Parenthood? There many other abomination - opps, I meant abortion factories out there who are competing for the blood money but they aren’t subsidized like PP. Please, President Trump, stop this evil madness!
If this happens, the only resort is civil war. Serious as an abortion.
The North Koreans have left tickets to their Olympic box seats for her at will call.
The smiling face of evil....
They want to force everyone to participate in their evil acts.
And here we have the cause of deranged shootings: state sanctioned murder of innocent humans and state sanctioned dissolution of the traditional family and familial rights including those of the father. Brain dead and morally dead liberals (a redundancy) won’t ever see that.
You like force? How about we just beat the F*** out of you? I like the idea of giving people the same medicine they try to put on others.
No ne can force a Christian dr or nurse to do an abortion. Even if it requires giving up your license no one can force you to do anything. I am afraid that the time is coming when it will become costly to follow Christ and stand for what is right. We have had it easy on this country for a long time. That time is ending. May God give us all the strength to stand!
There are plenty of places women can go to for abortions. This ( besides the fact that they are trying to force physicians to perform abortions) is a slippery slope.
The next issue is forcing physicians to do surgery on high risk patients, even though the surgeon does not want to do it. That would be elective surgery on patientswho could die onthe table, and the physician gets sued, or they suffer complications that can get a physician sued.
The Banality of Evil...
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