This may help
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2151317/posts
Bush institutes rule protecting workers’ “right of conscience”
Washington Post ^ | 12-18-08 | Rob Stein
Posted on 12/18/2008 11:50:55 PM PST by malkee
The Bush administration issued a sweeping regulation Thursday that protects a broad range of health care workers — from doctors to janitors — who refuse to participate in providing services they believe violate their personal, moral or religious beliefs.
The controversial rule empowers federal health officials to cut off funding for any state or local government, hospital, clinic, health plan, doctor’s office or other entity if it does not accommodate employees who exercise their “right of conscience.” It would apply to more than 584,000 health care facilities.
“Doctors and other health care providers should not be forced to choose between good professional standing and violating their conscience,” Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said in a statement.
The regulation was sought by conservative groups, abortion opponents and others as necessary to safeguard workers from being fired, disciplined or penalized in other ways.
Women’s health advocates, family planning proponents, abortion rights activists, members of Congress and others condemned the regulation, saying it would create major obstacles to a variety of health services, including abortion, family planning, end-of-life care and possibly a wide range of scientific research.
The 127-page rule is the latest in a flurry of federal regulations the administration is implementing before President George W. Bush’s term ends.
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Yes .. hopefully, so.
A little too late in his administration, sine the great O will probably rescind those laws!