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State-level Anti-Choice Efforts Target Pharmacies and Provider Conscience Laws

By Kay Steiger, RH Reality Check

July 3, 2009 - 8:00am

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Conscience clauses are becoming an increasingly popular mode of anti-choice legislation. While a bill in Louisiana represents a compromise position, bills pending in other states are more restrictive.

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Roundup: Bristol Palin on Today Show, Good Morning America

By Emily Douglas

May 6, 2009 - 9:49am

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Bristol Palin: "ambassador for abstinence" or for safer sex?; Obama, Clinton sound different themes on abortion and reproductive health; "Choose Life" license plates pass Texas House; what conscience clauses really do.

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The Conscience Clause: What Would Hobbes Do?

By Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check

April 13, 2009 - 3:14pm

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Stanley Fish applies philosophy to the Provider Conscience Rule debate. He points out that Hobbes’s definition of “conscience” was almost exactly the opposite of the way we think of the word today. Hobbes looked to the word’s etymology—“to know in concert with one another”—to reason that the word could refer to public or common knowledge.


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Religious Voices Weigh in on Conscience

By Kristin Williams, Faith in Public Life

April 9, 2009 - 12:27pm

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While some religious groups do oppose rescinding the conscience rule, many support it because of their concern that it could be harmful to health care and counter-productive to efforts to reduce unintended pregnancies.

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Obama Comes Through, Reversing Bush Era Repro Rights Restrictions

By Peggy Simpson, Women's Media Center

March 12, 2009 - 12:00pm

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President Obama and congressional Democrats have already moved smartly to restore key women’s reproductive rights that came under attack during the Bush Administration.

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Rescinding the Bush HHS Regulations: Act Now to Have Your Voices Heard

By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor

March 11, 2009 - 11:37am

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The Obama Administration is now taking comments on the revision of the HHS Rules put in place by the Bush Administration. Act now to have your voice heard.

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HHS Rule May Be Subject to Obama's Halt on Bush Regulations

By Brady Swenson, RH Reality Check

January 22, 2009 - 2:42pm

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The Legislative Advocate for California NOW claims that a contact at the Department of Health and Human Services confirms that the HHS provider conscience regulation will be frozen along with Bush's other midnight regulations.

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"Impatient Liberals and Abortion Moguls:" FRC Weighs in on HHS Rule and Lawsuits

By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor

January 16, 2009 - 10:41pm

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The Family Research Council predictably hails HHS rule and ridicules  lawsuits seeking an injunction.

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Bitter Pill: How DC's Pharmacies Fail Women

By Amanda Hess, Washington City Paper

December 22, 2008 - 8:00am

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Pharmacists in D.C. can and do refuse to provide women's health care based on such "personal views" as latent sexism, unsubstantiated medical opinion, or whim.

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OMB Approves HHS Refusal Clause, Last Stop Before Publication

By Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check

December 16, 2008 - 11:12am

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OMB approves refusal clause rule, last stop before publication in the Federal Register. Sec. Michael Leavitt's consolation prize to the far-right is just about done.

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