If abortion activists get their way, our nation’s healthcare workers will be forced to perform abortion procedures against their religious beliefs. I received the following report from Focus on the Family. We MUST stand up against such evil atrocities!
Doctors’ Religious Rights Under Attack
by Devon Williams, associate editor
Abortion advocates target federal guidelines protecting pro-life medical workers.
Abortion activists have launched a campaign to sabotage regulations being drafted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to enforce laws that protect the moral and religious rights of pro-life medical workers.
The proposed regulations pertain to health care providers who refuse, as allowed under federal law, to perform or refer for abortions or prescribe drugs that may cause an abortion. The HHS guidelines would provide additional protection by proscribing that any recipient of federal aid, including hospitals, research clinics and medical schools, that restricts a medical worker’s right of conscience could lose federal funding.
Pro-abortion groups are outraged.
“It’s ironic that individuals who claim to be ‘pro-choice’ really don’t allow the choice of a physician or health care provider to practice with integrity and to follow their conscience,” said Dr. William L. Toffler, professor of family medicine at Oregon Health and Sciences University. “The idea of asking a Christian hospital system or a Christian doctor to violate their consciences, to violate their integrity, is anathema to everything this country was founded upon.”
In response to the proposed regulations, abortion advocates have asked supporters to e-mail notes of opposition to HHS. Liberal members of Congress have also sent letters to President Bush urging him to oppose the regulations.
Carrie Gordon Earll, senior bioethics analyst for Focus on the Family Action, said the regulations are crucial in the fight to protect life.
“Religious liberty and freedom of conscience are under attack, and nowhere is this more evident than in the areas of medicine and health care,” she said. “Federal safeguards increase the likelihood that pro-life hospitals and physicians will continue to be available to patients.”
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Please contact the White House and urge President Bush to support the proposed regulations from the Department of Health and Human Services. You can find contact information on our Action Center. Please also let your Member of Congress know that you support these regulations. You can find contact information on our Action Center.
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