Posted on 05/02/2019 9:43:57 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Advancing his anti-abortion agenda, President Donald Trump moved Thursday to protect health care workers who object to procedures like abortion on moral or religious grounds.
Trump chose the National Day of Prayer to announce the new regulation.
“Just today we finalized new protections of conscience rights for physicians, pharmacists, nurses, teachers, students and faith-based charities,” Trump told an interfaith audience in the White House Rose Garden. “They’ve been wanting to do that for a long time.”
The conscience rule was a priority for religious conservatives who are a key part of Trump’s political base, but some critics fear it will become a pretext for denying medical attention to LGBT people or women seeking abortions, a legal medical procedure.
In a strongly worded statement, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, “these bigoted rules are immoral, deeply discriminatory and downright deadly, greenlighting open discrimination in health care against LGTBQ Americans and directly threatening the well-being of millions.” …
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If we aren’t seeing Romans 1:18-32 happening in our culture even a bit I shudder to think what it may look like when we will be.
Nasty is a beotch and Trump has opened up an opportunity for doctors to honor the Hippocratic oath or as I look at it the hypocritical oath. The oath supports saving lives if possible. It ain’t being done. The left sucks and abortion is an abomination.
Bravo, Mr. President.
Look, if you work for a Walgreen’s and somebody has a prescription for RU-486, it is one thing to waive over somebody else with no conscience to fill the prescription. That should be legal and any ramifications should be between the employer and employee. If, on the other hand, you work at the local hospital and you refuse to give mouth-to-mouth because the patient might be gay, that’s actionable because the patient could die without immediate care.
Pelosi wants to pretend all situations are like the second example when the majority are like the first one.
It’s unfortunate but, in today’s society, the “conscientious objector” is going to have to leave the profession or find a private practice with similar principles.
It’s not just abortion, it’s also end of life, quality of life, depression, dependency killing. Hell, killing for any reason at all. Just go to the doc, get a script, take it home and give it to whoever you want dead.
Thanks Olog-hai.
Good vs evil
Times. 100000000
God bless President Trump
I think you explained it quite well.
I’ve worked in health care quite a long time. I’ve taken care of countless people whose lifestyles I don’t agree with. I’ve never even considered refusing to take care of someone because they are LGBTwhatever.
I believe what I do to be a calling. I’m not called to shout fire and brimstone at people, I’m called to show compassion and to do what needs to be done.
At the same time, I can’t and won’t do certain things.
Neither I nor anyone else should be forced nor coerced into violating our beliefs and consciences.
Implying that declining to participate in abortion means that I would refuse to attempt to resucitate a patient because of “sexual orientation” is absurd.
Amen! I’m thankful for him and thank him for doing this.
LOL! Pelosi pontificating on immorality. Does it get any more surreal than that?
Sounds like this regulation will also allow pharmacists to deny dispensing abortion drug prescriptions. Good.
Thanks for your reply. God bless your calling.
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