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[neadods]

The Obama Administration is wasting no time in repealing the skewed 'moral conscience' act. This rule, passed at the nth hour of the previous Administration, allowed anyone in medicine the right to refuse to do anything that conflicted with their conscience without reprisal. The head of Health and Human services, in the face of already existing laws that protect doctors from not having to perform acts against their beliefs, felt that this was needed - and that if it passed and women were denied birth control (which he equates with abortion), that was "an important statement." (That web page now appears to be blank.)

I've had a few statements of my own regarding living in a country where people are already denying women their legal rights in the name of illegally enforcing said women to have to live within the dictates of beliefs they do not share.

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[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

I wonder what a McCain administration would have done with this!

I also wonder what ever happened to the nurse/med tech who kept "accidentally" yanking out women's IUDs, then telling them it was a great opportunity for them to use some other form of contraception, as she felt IUDs caused spontaneous abortion? I seem to remember she was charged with assault, but that doesn't meant the charge stuck. I've tried googling some keywords but haven't found a follow-up on this story yet.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I wonder what a McCain administration would have done with this!

Celebrated it as a return to morality, probably. Nothing like a complete lack of medical rights to enforce a return to abstinence.

I don't know what happened with the other story. If I see it appear again, I'll tell the results.