God be with him for taking a stand. I fear all who oppose BO will be in prison by 2012.
The opposite of life is DEATH, not “choice”.
“...that many medical practitioners, including himself, will go to prison before agreeing to engage in medical practices they morally oppose, such as abortion.”
Doctor, how about you refuse to be subject to evil and un american manipulation of the law AND you refuse to go to jail? Thank God George Washington and the fellas’ knew when to show respect for Law and Process and when to pull their hands out of their pockets and say, “No and go to hell, sir”.
Earlier that same day, the Obama administration had announced it was “reviewing” a Bush administration regulation known as the “conscience clause.”
Socialists have little regard for human life. We have a Socialist President a Socialist House Leader and many Administraion appointments being made of Socialists. Human life will in all manner suffer greatly during the next 4 years.
More babies will be slaughtered. Older folks will be written off and left to die. These are already standard action in Socialist Country’s around the world. Now that the Socialist have taken over her it willhappen here.
Federal funding is widespread in the abortion program.
The truth is that prison is not the first option, it is the last. If it was a choice between obedience and prison, it would actually be *easier*.
What they intend to do is to break down resistance a bit at a time. First of all, mandate that medical students *have* to study these subjects to graduate. “Just studying” is different from “practicing”, so a lot of resistance will be broken down. It also eliminates the most stubborn, who are will to give up medicine even before they are trained, so they are never “counted” as medical people who resisted.
Second, since medicine is already dominated by federal money, they incrementally cut back on money for physicians who resist.
Then they work at the institutional level as well. So it’s not just the government applying pressure, but the HMOs, insurance companies, hospitals, etc.
They have willing accomplices in some State governments as well, who also turn the screws.
They are masters at coercion.
But they don't have to put people in jail.
They just need to say, "Do this or you lose your license. Do this or you lose your job. Do this or you lose your funding. Do this or you'll be sued. Do this or you don't get published. Do this or you lose your certification. Do this or you don't get tenure. Do this or you're demoted. Do this or you're fired.
Step-by-step they have a million ways to turn the screws. That's why we NEED explicit protections for conscience. It needs to be ILLEGAL TO DISCRIMINATE against health workers who won't cooperate with abortion - euthanasia -infanticide - suicicde - the many manifestations of the Death Project.
“many medical practitioners, including himself, will go to prison”; uh, well, he might go to prison; the bulk of opposing medical practitioners would be better served going to Uruguay.
Is this rule strictly for “reproductive” procedures, or for anything that goes against one’s religion?
What I’m concerned about is something that we’ve seen on numerous threads about the goings on in Great Britain with muslim doctors and nurses. Women refusing to reveal their arms in order to wash. Refusing to use sanitizers, due to their alcohol content, etc...
I am just wondering if they might eventually start bringing that crap here...
Makr
Men died that day. But American was born. It is time for a rebirth.
Ping.
What’s this about a guy named Farrakhan being Obama’s REAL dad, and THAT’S why he keeps the birth certificate under SEAL? Can anyone here elaborate and give more details?
This makes me wonder why pro-life doctors don’t just schedule all abortions on Thursday — and then call in sick on Thursdays...
I’m still curious about that big ol’ hug Coburn gave Obama after the speech the other night. You’d have thought they were best buddies.
God bless Tom Coburn.
Coburn has the right idea. It’s time to start taking a stand against the monster we now have as President. Civil disobedience is a logical way to do that.
You bet your ass if a procedure was against Muslim beliefs they would get a pass!
Proves they are not “pro choice” -— as they don’t want doctors to have a “choice.”
Only pro-death.
I just made a point on another thread that Medicare and Medicaid insurance payments made to hospitals because the patient who obtained their service(s) was a Medicare or Medicaid participant is not *federal funding* and not in the same category as federal dollars for research or federal dollars to pay for updating the hospital, purchasing new equipment, etc. Am I mistaken, then? Am I to understand that any hospital that refuses to perform abortions will thus be denied payment of assignment claims? Medicare and Medicaid will be allowed to refuse payment of legitimate charges on the basis that a particular hospital chooses to exercise its First Amendment rights??
If this conscience clause EO was signed by G. W. Bush and is now being rescinded, what were Medicare and Medicaid doing prior to? Why is this recision coming across as NOW it will be a mortal blow to Catholic hospitals if they were surviving prior to Dubya's EO?? I'm confused on this point.