The Bush Administration is finally set to alter regulations to allow doctors and other health care professionals a “right to conscience,” allowing them not to participate in medical procedures, such as abortion and infanticide, which stand opposed to their moral underpinnings.
The ‘provider conscience’ rule applies to any procedure performed in a federally funded medical setting that “violate(s) an individual’s conscience,” but it most pointedly singles out abortion. It goes beyond existing laws that bar religious discrimination against workers and protect medical professionals who refuse to perform tasks they find morally repugnant.
It is a rule which protects individual workers from the fascist dictates of the state, and the incoming Administration opposes it and is plotting already to undo it.
This is not all the Obama crew are readying for all of us, born and unborn.
Jeff Emanuel
Neil Stevens