Posted on 12/18/2008 10:46:33 PM PST by smokingfrog
A federal regulation with a “right of conscience” provision allowing medical professionals to refuse to participate in treatments they oppose morally is set to be finalized by Bush administration officials this week. But it looks like the rule will be short-lived.
The Wall Street Journal reports today that members of the Obama transition team are taking a hard look at that and other regulations that could have an effect on reproductive rights issues, with an eye on reversing them once the president-elect is in office. The rule set to go into effect this week would allow health workers to opt out of performing some services including providing birth control pills, IUDs and the Plan B emergency contraceptive.
The rules that could be affected range from budgetary allocations to regulations and executive orders.
One of the first actions in this arena by the incoming president will be lifting an executive order limiting federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. Another rule on the chopping block could be the so-called “global gag rule,” which prevents foreign organizations receiving federal funding from spending anything on family planning services that include abortion services or advocacy.
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People who have moral objections to fighting don’t have to go into the military.
Why can the government FORCE its religion on us?
And people who have moral objections to doing their job don't have to be employed.
Contraceptive is a want. It’s not needed for health.
Here’s to all the pro-life folks that voted for Obama. Cheers you bastards.
The provision of abortion (and many contraceptive devices actually function by causing very early abortions) and euthanasia were never traditionally legitimate medical activities and most people who went into the field did not expect to have to do those things. This is why there has long been a conscience exemption for medical professionals who do not want to participate in these procedures.
The new Obama nation, however, will enforce its will regardless of the thousands of years of medical tradition which says that a physician must do no harm.
You can expect to see many Catholic institutions (and probably some Evangelical, although I’m not sure to what extent they have hospitals), close their doors after this goes through.
To quote the highly intelligent and insightful Senator Barbara Boxer... “Elections have consequences”. Fifty-two percent of the people, including a large number of presumably pro-life Catholics, voted for Obama knowing full well that eliminating any and all restrictions to abortion was his top priority. He could not have been more clear.
If any Catholic cares to complain about this, I will first ask him this question: “Who did you vote for?” If the answer is “Obama”, I will just call him a dumbass and walk away.
Or perhaps I will offer him one of my left over "Catholics for Infanticide / Obama '08" bumper stickers...
“The rules that could be affected”
lets hope Obama disappoints the left again... this may be just wishful thinking by the left as he has already reversed himself on so many promises.. and this is not even a promise..
The Culture of Death is taking the reins.
Yeah, but it will take up some time in Congress and let the dimocrats be the ones who are responsible for abortions.
Don’t you see what Bush is doing? LOL! (Smart man Bush is!)
>And people who have moral objections to doing their job don’t have to be employed.<
...you’re talking about doctors, pharmacists and nurses. These people have jobs waiting for them where ever they choose to go. And if you require them to do things they consider immoral, they’ll either stop practicing or leave.
Does that sound like a good idea to you?
Not to mention that it’s UNCONSTITUTIONAL. The government can NOT prevent us from practicing our religion.
...you’re talking about doctors, pharmacists and nurses. These people have jobs waiting for them where ever they choose to go.
The nurse who refuses to treat a man with AIDS because, hey, he's a sinner and deserves it, is probably not going to find the doors of many hospitals thrown open to her in welcome.
And if you require them to do things they consider immoral, they’ll either stop practicing or leave. Does that sound like a good idea to you?
To the doctor who refuses to perform an abortion on a woman who will die without the procedure, to the pharmacist who refuses to give a morning-after pill to a woman who was raped last night, I say GOOD RIDDANCE.
The government can NOT prevent us from practicing our religion.
This is factually wrong, by the way. A Mormom can't legally have more than one wife. You can't legally practice human sacrifice (or, in some cases, the animal sacrifice associated with santeria). But that's not the issue here. You have every right to refuse treatment to someone when your religion tells you to. And your employer has every right to kick you to the curb when you refuse to do the job he's/she's paying you for.
>The nurse who refuses to treat a man with AIDS because, hey, he’s a sinner and deserves it, is probably not going to find the doors of many hospitals thrown open to her in welcome.<
...yeah because that happens so often. *rolls eyes*
>To the doctor who refuses to perform an abortion on a woman who will die without the procedure, to the pharmacist who refuses to give a morning-after pill to a woman who was raped last night, I say GOOD RIDDANCE.<
Yeah - because ALL abortions are necessary to save the life of the woman and ALL morning after pills are used after a woman was raped. Right.
>This is factually wrong, by the way.<
A GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL cannot force it’s religion on us. Don’t believe me? Read this:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;”
First Amendment
If an employer hires me and then fires me because I refuse to do something on the grounds that it goes against my religion, then I have a case involving discrimination based on religion.
Why are you trolling here? Why don’t you go back to DailyKos? The lib blogs are the only place I hear these empty, baseless, insane, extreme arguments...
The government does have a religion now. It is called (by one name) Darwinian Atheistic Humanism. It is forced upon the nation through the its use of compulsory education in government schools.
Oh, you say, nobody is forced in to the government's schools — millions of children attend private religious, church, and home schools.
Those of us who don't send our children to the government's indoctrination chambers, but who own property, still are forced to fund the government's religious activities by means of compulsory, confiscatory property taxation.
How long will be be “allowed” to church school and home school our children? We shall see.
But nobody should be fooled into thinking that government is Areligious (A-religious). Government has a religion. Further, government will continue its effort to dismantle the American Christian heritage by siding for the “Beast from the East” (eastern religions such as Islam and the Oriental mystical religions) for the purpose of eventually establishing Atheistic Humanism firmly in the minds and souls of future generations.
Any anti-Christian religious order will be acceptable and favorable (and defended by government) in the near term for the purpose laying a pall over any Christian world view.
Since the time of the Second Humanist Manifesto, strenuous effort has been made in publicly-financed education to remove all Christian and Biblical understanding in standard reference works.
History books have been picked through for the removal of Christian reference, and history has been undergoing a continuous and steady re-writing so that current and future generations of American students reject all notions of the Christian influence that permeated our nation's inception and founding, and also permeated the thought process that rendered our founding documents.
Especially all the catholics that voted for this baby killing abomination because they felt like some change.
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