Obama To Rescind Bush’s Protections For Medical Practitioners Who Won’t Perform Abortions

Obama’s pro-abortion extremism is, as his pastor would say, coming home to roost.

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is moving to rescind a federal rule that reinforced protections for medical providers who refuse to perform abortions or other procedures on moral grounds, an official said Friday.
A Health and Human Services official said the administration will publish notice of its intentions early next week, and open a 30-day comment period for advocates, medical groups and the public. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official notice has not been completed.
The Bush administration instituted the rule in its last days, and it was quickly challenged in federal court by several states and medical organizations. As a candidate, President Barack Obama criticized the regulation and campaign aides promised that if elected, he would review it.

What I didn’t like about the Bush administration’s policy is that it would prevent employers from firing doctors or pharmacists who wouldn’t perform abortions or hand out the “morning after” pill or what have you. As much as I detest abortion, it is currently legal. And employers should be able to fire employees who won’t do their jobs.
That being said, I don’t think that any state should be able to pass a law requiring that a specific doctor or pharmacist who might employ himself/herself offer abortion or certain types of other related services. Nor should such people be excluded from participation in federal programs such as Medicare, etc. That is unfair discrimination.
Just as employers should be free to fire employees who won’t do the jobs assigned to them, no business owner should have the government telling them how to do their business. Especially when there are religious or moral objections involved.

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  • http://Array docdave

    how can the government force a free person to perform ANY medical procedure?

    Nobody can force anybody to do anything without their approval. Therr may be punishment associated with refusal but the decision still remains a individuals right.

  • SHADY

    I have often thought that! Forgive me.

    mnconservative,
    I guess i feel the same as you do, after all he is a human being. So forgive me also!

  • water joe

    Ignoring for now the stupidity of the rest of his post — treating ectopic pregnancies is not, by even the most pro-life standards an abortion.

  • SHADY

    As much as I detest abortion, it is currently legal.

    According to the Bible we are to follow man made laws, unless the law contradicts GOD’s law.

    “Thow shalt not murder”!!!

  • docdave

    I cant even imagine how broke I would be today if all the sluts I knocked up had kids. I for one am thankful the right to choose is still in place.

    You want others to pay for your irresponsibility. That’s about right for a liberal. You are even more dispicable than I had imagined.

  • Neiman

    “First Do No Harm”

    “I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan; and similarly I will not give a woman a pessary (a suppository containing medication for insertion into the vagina) to cause an abortion.

    But I will preserve the purity of my life and my arts.”

  • mnconservative

    serious question; how can the government force a free person to perform ANY medical procedure?

    I suppose with threat of bodily harm or harm to ones families. But otherwise they can’t!!! That’s not how our medical system works! Not yet anyway! Not in all my years in the medical field. We can refuse to do anything that we think would injure or kill another human being. Do no harm! That is part of the oath.

    That doesn’t mean the MD refusing to perform the procedure wouldn’t get drug through the mud. Tort Reform, but that is another thread.

  • Buzz

    Just as employers should be free to fire employees who won’t do the jobs assigned to them, no business owner should have the government telling them how to do their business.

    Do your job or get sued, that’s how it goes. No one forced them to be a doctor or pharmacist.

  • http://truthisrevolutionary.blogspot.com/ James Kuhn

    Right of Conscience isn’t just a religious thing. Abortions contravene the Hippocratic Oath.

    Are you defending Roe v. Wade, the revolting federal injection of itself into states rights, which ignores the 10th Amendment? Each state has a right to make it legal or not. Especially since the federal government overstepped its bounds once again in this area is a doctor’s right to uphold the Hippocratic Oath important.

    Rob, you are a libertarian conservative. Why would you defend something because it’s “legal”? The federal government has trumped state sovereignty of what is legal and illegal for over a century.

  • SHADY

    There is JUST ONCE that I would have condoned abortion,
    obama-bin-laden

  • Neiman

    The Left refuses to understand the difference in allowing natural death to occur and/or wherein this case the death of a fetus may occur, not deliberately, but as an accidental result of other life saving procedures versus a deliberate act to take an innocent life. When an abortion is conducted the goal, the aim, is to murder that living, innocent human being.

    Buzz is a thoroughy depraved, debauched, wholly selfish and loveless human being that is beneath contempt, he is to be pitied because he has not the slightest vestige of compassion or human decency.

  • mnconservative

    There is JUST ONCE that I would have condoned abortion, obama-bin-laden

    I have often thought that! Forgive me.

    Do your job or get sued, that’s how it goes. No one forced them to be a doctor or pharmacist.

    Pharmacists dispense drugs they do not prescribe. Being a Doctor is not the same as wiring an electrical panel. There are things called ethics! The Hippocratic Oath (look it up yourself.)

    In a free society you do not have to perform acts that you find immoral or unethical. There are 100′s of MD’s that will perform an abortion, go find one and leave the ones who find it offensive alone.

    And lastly, do your job or get fired. The only way to get sued as an MD is if you commit malpractice. Although in this liberal love fest you can get sued for looking at someone wrong. By your reasoning no one forces anyone to work for anybody so why do you need a union, go work for someone else if you don’t like the way your current employer is treating you. Maybe your next employer will treat you the way you think you deserve to be treated.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    Buzz – I cant even imagine how broke I would be today if all the sluts I knocked up had kids. I for one am thankful the right to choose is still in place.

    You killed your spawn in order to have unprotected sex?

    Wow. Talk about the epitome of selfishness!

    “Buzz” is a typical leftist. He points his fingers at others to call them “selfish”, all the while whining about his selfish wants.

  • mnconservative

    I cant even imagine how broke I would be today if all the sluts I knocked up had kids. I for one am thankful the right to choose is still in place.

    They are sluts! What are you? I pray for any babies that may have been aborted due to your irresponsibility (ever heard of a condom) but that said they have been spared the train wreck of you as a father! Now I have to go to confession to atone for that last stmt. You sir are a disgrace!

    Ectopic pregnancies usually end themselves moron! If you knew anything other than turning a wrench you’d be dangerous.

  • Mickey

    Obama supports late term abortions as well.

    This is an evil being. I can see why some refer to him as “anti christ” like.

  • Spartacus

    Do your job or get sued, that’s how it goes.

    Pearls of wisdom from Buzz. Go ahead and tell a surgeon that before you go under the knife Buzz and let me know how it works out for you!

  • docdave

    The federal government has trumped state sovereignty of what is legal and illegal for over a century.

    Quite true and the states allowed it to happen. A lot of this usurption occurred due to political bribery. i.e. federal funds will be withheld if you don’t except this law. That’s how the states got seatbelt and other alleged road safety laws.

  • jimmypop

    Nobody can force anybody to do anything without their approval. Therr may be punishment associated with refusal but the decision still remains a individuals right.

    EXACTLY!

    how about this; like any job, if you dont like the type of business they do where you work, leave. or open your own business. Barry and the medical boards cant force a doctor to do ANYTHING.

  • Buzz

    Doctors abort babys all the time. A ectopic pregnancy never is let go to term. They ABORT the fetus, there is no other way of looking at it. There is no guarantee that the mother will die. If your wife has ever had a ectopic pregnancy you have condoned abortion.

    I cant even imagine how broke I would be today if all the sluts I knocked up had kids. I for one am thankful the right to choose is still in place.

  • bill-tb

    Isn’t it weird how Obama says States should set their own policy on dope smoking, but the feds should have an absolute ‘kill the babies’ policy. What a strange twisted mind that must be.

  • jimmypop

    serious question; how can the government force a free person to perform ANY medical procedure?

  • docdave

    Ignoring for now the stupidity of the rest of his post–treating ectopic pregnancies is not, by even the most pro-life standards an abortion.

    Terminating pregnancies for medical reasons has always been available to medical professional even before Roe v Wade. The prolife movements are not about them but about the millions of abortions that are preform on otherwise health pregnancies.

    There have been over 40,000,000 abortions (data from abortion centers) since Roe v Wade (1874) with only a very small fraction required to terminate a unhealthy pregnancy.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    Do your job or get sued, that’s how it goes.

    Right. Because Buzz can’t just go to a different doctor or pharmacist. Like a typical liberal, it’s “do it or we’ll make you do it.”

    Hope and change!

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