Posted on 11/08/2019 8:08:33 AM PST by Morgana
She scrubbed in like she usually did. Their patient, she was told, had just lost her baby. It was supposed to be a routine procedure — the kind they usually perform after a miscarriage. Turns out, nothing about the procedure was routine. When she met the doctor, he had an apologetic look in his eye. “Please don’t hate me,” he said. The woman’s baby, the nurse discovered, hadn’t died. They were there to destroy it. Shocked, the nurse turned and asked to be relieved. No, they answered. Faced with losing her job, she did something that’s traumatized her ever since: she helped abort an innocent child.
This nurse’s nightmare is exactly what the Trump administration was trying to avoid when it finalized HHS’s conscience rule this May. Like any sane person, the president thinks men and women in the medical community have a right to walk away from the table in situations like that one. Just imagine if you were asked to hold the scalpel that would mutilate a perfectly healthy teenager in gender transition. Or write a hormone prescription for a confused girl that would sterilize her for life. It’s moral terrorism — the kind a Manhattan judge just upheld.
Apparently, the First Amendment doesn’t apply to doctors and nurses, U.S. District Court Judge Paul Engelmayer has decided. In an obscenely long diatribe, he blasts HHS for refusing to bully nurses like this one into doing something they vehemently oppose — like taking a human life. With a disproportionate amount of outrage, he slams the administration for acting “arbitrarily and capriciously.” He goes on to complain that HHS didn’t have the authority to make the rule (ironic, since the agencies under Presidents Bush and Obama did) and accused the agency of making up a spike in complaints like this nurse’s.
As for “arbitrary” and “capricious,” FRC’s Katherine Beck Johnson can only shake her head. “There were a number of documented conscience complaints at HHS that officials sought to alleviate with this rule,” she pointed out. But then, Engelmayer was probably too blinded by his personal political motivations to realize it. Case in point? Instead of limiting his ruling to the states who sued (26), this lower court (emphasis added) judge decided to vacate the entire policy. “In my opinion,” Katherine says, “it was clear the result the judge wanted to reach.”
Let’s not forget, conscience rights are already settled law under statutes like the Weldon amendment. Not to mention, Katherine explained, that President Bush issued a similar regulation at the end of his presidency in 2008 — and Barack Obama canceled it out with one of his own. “So not only is there legislative authority [under Weldon] to enforce these broader conscience protections, but precedent by past administrations.”
But of course, that hasn’t stopped the liberal headline writers at CNN from referring to it as the “so-called” conscience rule — as if this is somehow an idea conservatives just dreamed up. As Senator Ben Sasse (R-Nebr.) insists, “The whole point of the First Amendment, especially the free exercise of religion, is to protect the conscience rights of Americans. In this country, government doesn’t get to tell you that your faith is fine on Sunday at church but not Monday at work. The Trump administration ought to defend basic conscience rights all the way to the Supreme Court.”
No one — not doctors, not teachers, or business owners — should be bullied out of their careers because they think differently than the extreme Left. Besides, David Harsanyi points out, if it’s okay for liberal activists to be driven by their “consciences,” why not everyone? Good question. For the sake of health care providers, and those they serve, let’s hope DOJ appeals the case in time to ask it.
“...Wonder if she can now sue him or hospital for PTSD?...”
Good point. Sue the ever-loving shite out these murderous SOBs.
She ought to sue. $500 million ought to get their attention.
This is really hard to believe. It’s hard to imagine the whole staff in deliberate cahoots to mislead the nurse about what was going on.
How awful can people be? Did I just ask that stupid question?
YES, YES, YES! Do it and make an example. Sure there is some lawyer out there willing. It's time to stop this murderous insanity by any means.
“When she met the doctor, he had an apologetic look in his eye. “Please don’t hate me,” he said”
This is where I became convinced the story is fake. Abortionists gleefully accept this task.
I would have turned around and left. If they fired me, I’d sue the crap out of them.
I WOULD SUE THE LIVING SH!T of the Dr and hospital for PTSD!!!!!
I'm tired of playing by the old rules. It's time for us who hold America's traditions and values in high regard to shove the rules and go batshit crazy on these socialist/communists. Not condoning violence here. I'm thinking legal assembly in front of soc/commie homes with signs and camping out where authorized to start. We need to use their rules and activities against them.
I'm willing to spend a night in jail if were to happen in my area. I'm 70 in two months. What are you willing to do to save our Country? Sit at your computer and post on this and other boards while our civilization goes to crap?
“I would have turned around and left. If they fired me, I’d sue the crap out of them.”
This. If she went along with it it must not gave been that serious to her. Plenty of nursing po allsitions out there.
Not every doctor who performs abortions does it full time. Some OB-GYNs do it for established patients. They may have some distaste or a niggle of conscience.
Not every doctor who performs abortions does it full time. Some OB-GYNs do it for established patients. They may have some distaste or a niggle of conscience.
“This is really hard to believe. It’s hard to imagine the whole staff in deliberate cahoots to mislead the nurse about what was going on.”
Not when you are around liberals a lot of the time. Liberals lie, that’s what they do! They will conspire and do despicable, disgusting, conniving, cheating, backstabbing, underhanded, dirty, nasty things if it means screwing a decent unsuspecting moral person into becoming like them. Liberals are vile and reprehensible entities! They should be avoided at all costs!
This “doctor” needs to be shamed every day for the rest of his ugly life. Name and phone number please???
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