Comments on: Conscience

By: Becky Miller

Becky Miller — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:20:03 +0000

This is a great and easy way to officially comment on the policy change: go to http://www.freedom2care.org and fill out either the healthcare provider or patient form.

Becky Miller
Education Coordinator, Rhode Island Right to Life

By: Tricia

Tricia — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:38:04 +0000

I am not a health professional. I have not heard about this tidbit of info before reading this. Ivhave not done any research. I am pro-choice, not a Christian, and believe that abortion is the taking of a life.

With that said…

As a health professional, is there a piece in your oath that speaks to serving the needs/wants (I recognize that these are two different things) of the patient? Is there anything that says you can refuse to take part in an abortion, but have to provide information about where they can get one…?

I’ll do some research on this too-

By: Jackie Hall

Jackie Hall — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:02:57 +0000

Thank you for this post. My niec is wanting to become a nurse and so I told her to come to your site to read this. She says she feels exactly as you do. I do as well.

By: Paulette

Paulette — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:43:26 +0000

The problem is he doesn’t think at all, he is so far up Hollywoods butts they all think alike, We need to seriously bombard washington with petition after petition because it is going to get a whole lot worse I kid you not…

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:06:36 +0000

Wow, so beautifully written, and so true. I thought I was the only one around who doesn’t think Obama walks on water. I will sign the petition and forward it to others as well.

By: Angie

Angie — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:00:58 +0000

Very interesting…I’m posting a link on my blog as well so others can be informed.

By: nikko

nikko — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:23:29 +0000

I, personally, am counting down the days till we can vote him out of office.

I had no idea this was going on. It almost makes me physically sick. I will sign the petition!

By: Gah! I so dislike the direction that Obama is taking our country « Not Finished Yet

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:50:43 +0000

[...] 19, 2009 in politics | Tags: abortion, conscience clause, Obama I read this today. I had heard a bit about this before, but it seems like it’s really happening. If [...]

By: Aubrey T.

Aubrey T. — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:00:46 +0000

Thanks for the good post about this – I’m a family practice physician who loves OB care who is also worried that I may have to give up doing what I love because I will not take part in abortions, the morning after pill, or anything like that. I actually also just blogged about it a few days ago myself –

http://jandatell.blogspot.com/2009/03/worried.html
Feel free to stop by. And thanks for the link to the petition!

By: Heidi

Heidi — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:44:57 +0000

Actually, he’s only removing the part of the rule Bush signed into office in August and became active the day Obama took office. The clause as it was when Bush left office stands in effect.

“‘We recognize and understand that some providers have objections to providing abortions,’ according to an official at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The official declined to be identified because the policy change had not been announced. ‘We want to ensure that current law protects them. But we do not want to impose new limitations on services that would allow providers to refuse to provide to women and their families services like family planning and contraception that would actually help prevent the need for an abortion in the first place.’”

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/27/conscience.rollback/

Jody says: Yes, Heidi, that is what the press is saying and what I thought at first, but upon really digging it looks like he wants to rescind the Clause in its entirety. In the Federal Registrar, he is pushing to rescind the pro-life protections entirely. Sneaky indeed……read here from March 6th http://www.lifenews.com/nat4893.html and here from March 3rd http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/03/03/obama-repeal-bush-abortion-regulation/ The Bush laws are in effect to keep entities from discriminating against medical employees who exercise their right to conscience. As for the argument that women will be limited in their rights to birth control and the morning after pill….ridiculous…..for one thing the morning after pill does not need a prescription. You can get it at any pharmacy that carries it http://ec.princeton.edu/questions/get-EC.html Do you see that Planned Parenthood can dispense it? Notice the “call ahead” to check to see if the pharmacy carries it. Yup, they can CHOSE not to carry it. Sort of like a grocery store chosing not to carry organic milk. If Obama appeals the law, he can FORCE a pharmacist to carry and dispense of them regardless of his/her beliefs. Mind you, that includes PRIVATELY OWNED pharmacies. That is not right. The Bush law is not a giant F-u to the Pro-choice community. It is in place to protect the rights of those on the other side of the coin as well. The lawsuits are pure BS. If someone is raped, and wants the morning after pill, it is available to them and nothing in this law opposses that persons right. And the BS about it limiting family planning is just plan fallacy…… trust me, birth control is alive and well in America, regardless.