Obama Takes Next Step to Scrap Protections for Pro-Life Doctors on Abortion

LifeNews.com ^ | March 6, 2009 | Steven Ertelt

[SErtelt]

Washington, DC -- President Barack Obama has taken the next step to remove the new protections the Bush administration put in place to protect pro-life medical centers and staff who do not want to do abortions. The protections provided better enforcement for existing conscience laws for medical professionals.

The Bush administration put the protections in place after learning that medical centers and staff were facing increasing pressure to be involved in abortions despite three federal laws prohibiting such discrimination.

Obama officials had told media outlets that the president wanted to merely clarify the existing rules, but the administration published in the Federal Register a proposal to rescind the pro-life protections entirely.

You can submit comments against the proposal via email at proposedrescission@hhs.gov.

[TheFourthMagi]

If you are pro-life, you are compelled to stand up against a government which is now anti-life.

[hunter112]

I don't believe that he's stupid enough to try to force doctors to perform abortions. Remember, Bush put the executive order in place well after Zero won, it was to try to give him something to stumble on. If the rule had been all that vital, why wasn't it put in place at the beginning of Bush's term in office?

I could be wrong, and we could see multitudes of doctors leaving their practices, and religious-affiliated hospitals closing their doors, if Zero's handlers think that people will blame it on Rush and the Republicans. Of course, they'd be dead wrong about that.

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[wagglebee]

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[Sun]

Obama changed his position on billing private insurance companies for the care of wounded veterans, so if enough of us voice our opinions, we have a good chance of getting him to reverse his position on this.