Protests Over a Bush Rule To Protect Health Providers

[Faygo Kid]

Source: New York Times

WASHINGTON — A last-minute Bush administration plan to grant sweeping new protections to health care providers who oppose abortion and other procedures on religious or moral grounds has provoked a torrent of objections, including a strenuous protest from the government agency that enforces job discrimination laws.

The proposed rule would prohibit recipients of federal money from discriminating against doctors, nurses and other health care workers who refuse to perform or to assist in the performance of abortions or sterilization procedures because of their “religious beliefs or moral convictions.”

It would also prevent hospitals, clinics, doctors’ offices and drugstores from requiring employees with religious or moral objections to “assist in the performance of any part of a health service program or research activity” financed by the Department of Health and Human Services.

But three officials from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, including its legal counsel, whom President Bush appointed, said the proposal would overturn 40 years of civil rights law prohibiting job discrimination based on religion. . .

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/washington/18abort.ht...

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They won't be happy until all reproductive rights are in the hands of Dr. James Dobson.

The Bush Administration is not going to go quietly into that good night, folks.

[uppityperson]

1. k&r for Church. State.

[Shallah Kali]

2. Special Rights for relgious extremists brought to you by the Republican Party

One more reason no republican will *ever* get my vote until the day the entire party repudiates and apologizes for this and every wrong they have done at least for the past 8 years. President-Elect Obama must have a much stronger stomach than me because they make me want to vomit.

[ladywnch]

3. JESUS CHRIST!!!! they're now going to block a woman's right to

get a tubal ligation if these religious wack jobs object!!! (who refuse to perform or to assist in the performance of abortions or sterilization procedures because of their “religious beliefs or moral convictions.”)

So not only can't you get an abortion but you can't even be allowed to PREVENT getting pregnant! absolute proof positive they want women barefoot and ALWAYS pregnant. health insurance will cover 'boner pills' but not birth control...next they'll repeal a woman's right to say 'NO' to sex...marital rape will be permitted again.

WOMEN RISE UP! they'll turn us into baby factories whether we agree or not!!!!!!

[McCamy Taylor]

4. It says "Any research activity or health service program".

So, for instance, you could hire a nurse who then refuses to look at, talk to or touch a male patient and you would be stuck with her if that was her religion. And you would be forced to hire another nurse for your male patients.

Or you could hire an employee who then turns out to be a Scientologist who will not dispense psychiatric meds. You are are stuck with him.

If your employee is a member of a Fundamentalist Church, maybe he will not want to deal with nonChristians because it is against his religion.


This law is entirely too broad. Your whacked out Church could be against chemotherapy, vaccinations, surgery---who knows what? This could go way beyond reproduction.

[JimDandy]

5. Leavitt, the head of the DSHS is a Mormon and the former Gov of Utah.

The Mormon agenda has been to deny rape victims not just access to emergency contraception, but simply to INFO about it! And they're at it again to the very bitter end, trying to stuff their religious nonsense down our collective Democratic throats.

Folks, I keep saying: it is REALLY DANGEROUS to our democracy to give any Mormon a postion of power in the government - especially the federal government.

I lived in Utah. I was a Mormon. I KNOW.

[Shardik]

6. They are trying to legislate stupidity.

God, thes people make me nuts. I can't wait until they are out of office.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

7. Unreal. This nightmare won't freaking end!

I hate these a-holes.