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Obama administration may rescind 'conscience rule' (on abortion)
Chicago Tribune ^ | 2-27-09 | Noam N. Levey

Posted on 02/27/2009 5:10:45 AM PST by STARWISE

Taking another step into the abortion debate, the Obama administration Friday will move to rescind a controversial rule that allows health-care workers to deny abortion counseling or other family-planning services if doing so would violate their moral beliefs, according to administration officials.

The rollback of the "conscience rule" comes just two months after the Bush administration announced it last year in one of its final policy initiatives.

The new administration's action seems certain to stoke ideological battles between supporters and opponents of abortion rights over the responsibilities of doctors, nurses and other medical workers to their patients.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; agenda; bho44; bhoabortion; conscience; conscienceclause; healthcare; obamatruthfile
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Officials stressed Thursday that the administration is looking for input from people across the ideological spectrum before it finalizes the rollback after the standard 30-day comment period.

Contact the White House


1 posted on 02/27/2009 5:10:45 AM PST by STARWISE
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To: Salvation; NYer; ELS; Bahbah

~~BTTT


2 posted on 02/27/2009 5:12:06 AM PST by STARWISE ( They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter))
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To: STARWISE

EVIL at work!


3 posted on 02/27/2009 5:12:22 AM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified DeCartes))
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To: STARWISE

so.... if you morally object you still must perform abortions? or else...what? Will they throw you in jail for your beliefs?


4 posted on 02/27/2009 5:15:30 AM PST by Mr. K (physically unable to proofreed (<---oops))
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To: STARWISE

This is where the rubber meets the road. No Christian doctor or hospital ought to stand for this dictator’s evil ruling. And every Christian ought to support their doctors who refuse to go against God in this matter. A time of “put up or shut up” is rapidly approaching, when the sheep will be separated from the goats.
“We ought to obey God rather than man.” Act 5:29


5 posted on 02/27/2009 5:16:20 AM PST by kittymyrib
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To: STARWISE

Why not make it illegal to have a conscience?
Is there anyone left in the democrat party that has one?
And having a conscience is way above obama’s pay grade.


6 posted on 02/27/2009 5:16:26 AM PST by silverleaf (Freedom's just another word for "nothing left to lose")
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To: Mr. K

no, but if you don’t go along with giving an abortion to any patient who demands one- they could ban you from employment at any facility that has any type of federal programs or funding

which under socialized medicine will be all of them


7 posted on 02/27/2009 5:18:50 AM PST by silverleaf (Freedom's just another word for "nothing left to lose")
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To: silverleaf
“(N)or prohibit the free exercise thereof.” - The forgotten clause.
8 posted on 02/27/2009 5:20:57 AM PST by Jacquerie (Truth to the Left is that which advances their goals, factuality is irrelevant.)
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To: STARWISE

He will now show is true colours.


9 posted on 02/27/2009 5:21:28 AM PST by M. Espinola (Freedom is not 'free'.)
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To: Jacquerie

ah, but no one will be free to practice “religion” that impedes someone elses “constitutional right” to abortion- in a federally supported medical facility

follow the federal money


10 posted on 02/27/2009 5:23:47 AM PST by silverleaf (Freedom's just another word for "nothing left to lose")
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To: M. Espinola

In just one month, he has proven to be 1,000 times worse than I ever feared. And, more’s coming. Remember this:

Rahm Emanuel:

You never want a crisis to go to waste

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yeA_kHHLow

The Chicago Swamp is in the White House.


11 posted on 02/27/2009 5:24:35 AM PST by STARWISE ( They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter))
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To: STARWISE
'The Chicago Swamp' Well stated!

By June imagine what things will be like considering the short time-frame Obama & his leftist totalitarians have been in office.

Thanks for posting the youtube.

12 posted on 02/27/2009 5:28:48 AM PST by M. Espinola (Freedom is not 'free'.)
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To: STARWISE

“...SHALL NOT INFRINGE ON THE FREE EXCERCISE THEREOF..”!!!!


13 posted on 02/27/2009 5:32:03 AM PST by G Larry (Obama's plan = "STEALING FROM THOSE WHO CREATE THE JOBS!")
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To: STARWISE

I am in school right now for pre-med. Maybe I should move toward microbiology instead.

Or, on second thought, maybe I should just do what I want. FUBO!!!!


14 posted on 02/27/2009 5:36:43 AM PST by abishai
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To: silverleaf

And it sounds like this will include pharmacies.


15 posted on 02/27/2009 5:42:41 AM PST by HollyB
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To: abishai

Support your states’ 10th amendment resolutions,
and demand that they include a “non-enforcement” clause that states that any unconstitutional law such as this will not be enforced in the sovereign state of ZZ.


16 posted on 02/27/2009 5:46:17 AM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: STARWISE

NO ONE has to help perform an abortion. Just DON’T do it. You will NOT be arrested, but yes, lower-level employees might lose their jobs. Doctors won’t.


17 posted on 02/27/2009 5:46:59 AM PST by 2harddrive (...House a TOTAL Loss.....)
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To: STARWISE

“Officials stressed Thursday that the administration is looking for input from people across the ideological spectrum before it finalizes the rollback after the standard 30-day comment period.”

How do their children feel/think about this?


18 posted on 02/27/2009 5:51:43 AM PST by This_far
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To: STARWISE

Barak Hussein Obama is EVIL!


19 posted on 02/27/2009 6:13:30 AM PST by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: kittymyrib

Catholic Charities in Massachusetts has already entirely shut down their adoption programs because the government was going to force them to place children with same-sex adoptive couples. “Atlas Shrugged” in another area, as it were. Look for entire hospitals to shut down in the wake of such a change.


20 posted on 02/27/2009 6:42:52 AM PST by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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