TChris: “So, Governor Romney’s good-faith effort to comply with the law is somehow non-conservative??”
You mean overruling his own Department of Health attorneys and contradicting the Massachusetts Catholic Conference attorneys?
Guess you missed the rest of the story...from the original post:
“The Department of Public Health issued a statement earlier in the week allowing hospitals to dissent from the new law, under a previous statute that protects private hospitals from being forced to provide abortion services or contraceptives.
“Daniel Avila, associate director for policy and research for the Massachusetts Catholic Conference, said yesterday in an interview with the Boston Globe that Catholic hospitals still have legal grounds to avoid providing the pill, despite the new legislation. The new bill did not expressly repeal the original law protecting the rights of Catholic facilities.
“As long as that statute was left standing, I think those who want to rely on that statute for protection for what they’re doing have legal grounds.”
Overruling? How do you "overrule" those who have no authority to "rule"?
Department of Health attorneys? I don't see any mention of "attorneys" in the article. I suspect there weren't any attorneys involved in the DoH statement, which is why they advocated violating the law.
Massachusetts Catholic Conference attorneys? Again, you're making up attorneys out of thin air. I don't see any in the article.
The DoH and Catholic Conference gave their opinions, and Governor Romney, with a law degree of his own, chose to follow the counsel of his attorney, a real one.
That seems prudent to me.