Posted on 02/18/2011 1:59:51 PM PST by julieee
Obama Admin Weakens Protections for Pro-Life Medical Workers
Washington, DC -- The long-awaited decision by President Barack Obama to overturn conscience protections the Bush administration put in place to protect pro-life medical workers who don't want to be involved in certain medical procedures has finally occurred.
http://www.lifenews.com/2011/02/18/obama-admin-weakens-protections-for-pro-life-medical-workers/
In 2008, the Bush administration issued a rule that prohibited recipients of federal money from discriminating against doctors, nurses and health care aides who refuse to take part in medical procedures to which they have religious or moral objections. The rule implemented existing conscience protection laws that ensure medical professionals cannot be denied employment because they do not want to assist in abortions.
At the end of February 2009, the Obama administration announced it began “reviewing” the regulations implementing conscience laws, the first step toward rescinding the rule.
Today, the administration rescinded part of the protections today with the Health and Human Services Department scrapping a portion of the rule, which it called “unclear and potentially overbroad in scope.” Obama officials put a new rule in place that leaves in place protections on abortion but offers no protection for medical workers who have moral or religious objections to dispensing or giving to women the Plan B drug or other emergency contraception that could act in some cases as an abortion drug.
“The department supports clear and strong conscience protections for health-care providers who are opposed to performing abortions,” the rule states, according to a Washington Post report.
The new regulation goes into effect in 30 days and the Post says it ensures no federal funds can be used to “support coercive or discriminatory policies or practices in violation of federal law.”
Barry the Baby Killer. Moochelle don’t want the kids being fat. Barry don’t want the kids.
The most widely acknowledged case of Shariah imposition so far known originated at the Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport, and was revealed to the wider public in 2006. There, immigrant Somali Muslim cabdrivers would not take airport arrival passengers carrying alcohol or accompanied by dogs (including guide dogs for blind customers), on the grounds that for them to do so would violate Shariah. The Muslim drivers had begun their boycott on liquor and dogs about ten years previously, and airport customers had complained about the situation. In one incident sixteen drivers successively declined to carry “objectionable” passengers. The Somali cabdrivers applied to the Metropolitan Airports Commission for authorization to refuse service on religious grounds without being sent to the back of the airport taxi line and losing opportunities to make money.
The Metropolitan Airports Commission rejected the petition, but proposed a supposedly moderate compromise: drivers who would not carry alcohol or dogs could have a special light installed on their cabs indicating their enforcement of a ban. The commission produced this “solution” after consultation with the Muslim American Society (MAS), a radical Islamist group that favors introduction of Shariah into the United States. But while the commission imagined it was deliberating and acting fairly, the proposal for special taxis for Muslim drivers had potentially disastrous consequences. A public agency would have, for the first time, established a Shariah law interpretation on public property in the United States.
After deliberating, however, the commission found against the Somali cabbies and denied their request. The old rules continued in place: drivers who refused customers went to the back of the line. But nothing had been done to actively restrain the drivers from their discriminatory actions.
What is it with death of the most innocent and this worthless POS?
He wants to shut down Catholic Christian and Christian Hospitals. Global Control w/ Global Standards. We’re becoming Russia...the elitists have their coveted insurance and the peasants get what’s left.
“American is not a Christian Country”.
The states need to tell obuma to go _____ himself. Obuma doesn’t obey the law and neither should the states.
Time to throw his arrogance back in his face.
New Rule
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
45 CFR Part 88
RIN 0991-AB76
Regulation for the Enforcement of Federal Health Care Provider Conscience
Protection Laws
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS.
http://www.ofr.gov/OFRUpload/OFRData/2011-03993_PI.pdf
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