Posted on 10/14/2005 5:08:58 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Wisconsin's governor vetoed a bill Friday that would have allowed health care workers to opt out of a half-dozen procedures, including withdrawing a person's feeding tube and using embryonic stem cells, on religious or moral grounds.
The "conscience clause" also would have protected medical workers against punishment from their bosses or state regulators if they refused to refer people elsewhere to get the procedures.
"Because it puts a doctor's political views ahead of the best interests of patients, this legislation ought to be called the 'unconscionable clause,'" Gov. Jim Doyle said in a statement. "It is a disservice to patients and to our health care system."
Doyle, a Democrat, vetoed a similar bill in 2004.
Wisconsin Right to Life, a group that opposes legalized abortions, pushed this latest measure.
Under current state law, medical workers already can opt out of abortions and sterilization procedures on moral or religious grounds without fear of reprisal from their employers or state examining boards and licensing agencies.
The bill laid out six more procedures medical workers could refuse for ethical objections: destroying embryos or using cells from destroyed embryos; procedures on an embryo that won't benefit it; procedures involving a child growing in an artificial womb that don't help the child; procedures, such as transplants, that use fetal organs; pulling a feeding tube from a person who isn't terminally ill; and assisting in a suicide.
Wisconsin Right to Life legislative director Susan Armacost said the veto would make life tougher for medical workers.
"They feel it's very necessary," she said. "The whole atmosphere is not very amenable to people who don't want to kill their patients."
The Democrats are the abortion party. That's what their lives revolve around.
Doyle is one sick scumbag.
Regards,
LH
What on earth does it have to do with politics?
So, are there the votes to overide the scumbag's veto, or are there too many Democrat abortion enthusiasts in the legislature?
Our governor would have done the same thing :(
Our AG will soon be arguing a case before the SCOTUS about our recently passed Parental Notification law (under the previous governor, a Republican). In a case of double irony, this attorney general, Kelly Ayotte, was just reappointed to her position by this present governor. AND he is pushing for repeal of the Parental Notification law. How weird is that?
Good question.
What is wrong with this guy that he mistakes ethical objections for political views?
Is he really that dumb or is he intenting to insult the publicJs intelligence?
Uh -- did the Guv read the list?
destroying embryos or using cells from destroyed embryos; procedures on an embryo that won't benefit it; procedures involving a child growing in an artificial womb that don't help the child; procedures, such as transplants, that use fetal organs; pulling a feeding tube from a person who isn't terminally ill; and assisting in a suicide.
Can it be any more clear that Democrats consider hastening the death of a human being -- born, unborn, sick, healthy, whatever -- their reason for being? These ghouls are positively obsessed with death.
I wonder if Governor Doyle is another of these "strong Catholic" types that the deluded heartland folk keep putting in office.
Whether it's freedom of conscience, malpractice insurance, or medical liability, there's always something going on to make much of the Midwest uninhabitable by physicians!
Welcome to FR. Signed up today just to support Goulish Governor Doyle?
Heck, you're even a day ahead of yourself, LOL! FewsOrange since 10-15-05.
For him to suggest that this has anything to do with politics is disingenuous to begin with. The best interests of the patient are not to be euthanized but to prolong life to its natural end. This governor is so confused that it is no wonder he tries to confuse and obfuscate others.
To a democrat ethics and politics are the same thing, since they have a secular religion.
Libral\Socialist == Good
Conservitive(in any form) == Evil
I just read an article about who eviromentals have a religion.
Pollution and technology are the devil, the earth is god, eden was the time before humans, the humans left eden by developing technology(eating the apple of the tree of knowledge)...
It was quite intresting, wish I had it handy.
Signed up today just to support Goulish Governor Doyle? NO
I just don't think the conscience issue should be reduced to a list.
Doesn't surprise me one bit. Our Republican Congress is having a good time outting this schmuck for who he truly is. The only reason he's in office is because Tommy Thompson left us to become HHSS, giving us a special election. That and rampant voter fraud, which is still being investigated. (Doyle was our AG before he ran for Governor against our then Lt. Governor (R) whom I voted for.)
The only thing Doyle's concerned with is that no legislation that crosses his desk effect his own "baby" which, ironically, is destroying fetuses in medical research by his beloved Alma Mater, UW Madison, WI. UW Madison (and othe rparts of the UW system) has a lot of money riding on fetal stemcell research. It's basically what the UW System is founded upon and financed by these days. There are all sorts of cozy little deals cut between the UW and the private sector; private companies formed by exiting UW Staff! Just follow the money...
Hear that parents across America? If you're Pro-Life, don't send your money and your kids here!
Just checking. We have a Full Moon rising and the loonies will be out in force signing up this weekend. Carry on. :)
And read my post #15 for a clarification on my views. ;)
It has everything to do with the governor's politics.
Be nice, most libertairians (note the small "l") are quite uncomfortable with the government being morality police.
Of course I don't see any problem with this legislation since all it does is create a "whistleblower" type protection for people with religious views.
Isn't Madison the only town in wisconsin that can support a CPUSA?
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