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Democrats Eye Overturning Bush's Provider Conscience Expansion

By Mike Lillis, New Journalist Fellow

January 6, 2009 - 9:00am

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Democratic policymakers vowing to overturn a controversial new Bush administration rule that could limit women’s reproductive health options have several tools at their disposal to do so -– but party leaders aren’t revealing which they favor.

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Stop HHS Regulations: Sign the Petition!

By Emily Douglas, RH Reality Check

January 5, 2009 - 5:53pm

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President Bush's provider conscience expansion is set to go into effect January 18, but the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association has launched a petition to block the new regulation.

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HHS "Provider Conscience" Rule Puts Public Health in Danger

By Jessica Arons, Center for American Progress and Center for American Progress Action Fund

December 24, 2008 - 9:00am

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The right of conscience is a time-honored value in our society. But it is not only health providers who have rights; so do patients.

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HHS Rule Out of Touch with Medical Reality

By Dr. Anne Davis, Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health

December 23, 2008 - 9:00am

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Health care providers already strain to serve women while respecting workers' rights under existing laws. Now Secretary Leavitt has put even more obstacles between patients and the health care they need.

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Bush's Parting Shot Undermines Health Care

By Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood Federation of America

December 19, 2008 - 1:39pm

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Under HHS's new rule, doctors and health care workers of all kinds can deny patients vital health care information and services, without the patient even knowing.

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Unconscionable Policies, Dangerous Politics

By Jodi Jacobson, RH Reality Check

December 18, 2008 - 12:20pm

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The HHS provider conscience expansion is just one example of an insidious effort by religious right groups to tip the balance away from patient access to care and toward conscience exemptions without consequences.

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HHS Publishes Provider Conscience Expansion Rule

By Emily Douglas, RH Reality Check

December 18, 2008 - 11:15am

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The Department of Health and Human Services today published a new regulation broadening protections for health care providers who refuse to provide health care services based on religious or moral grounds.

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What Would FOCA Really Do?

By Emily Douglas, RH Reality Check

November 25, 2008 - 10:24pm

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Would the Freedom of Choice Act force Catholic hospitals to perform abortions, as Melinda Hennenberger suggests? Unequivocally no.

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November 20 Deadline Passes: When Will HHS Release Provider Conscience Regs?

By Emily Douglas, RH Reality Check

November 24, 2008 - 6:06pm

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November 20 came and went, with no mention of the expanded provider conscience regulation from the Department of Health and Human Services. Does this mean the rule change is dead? Doubtful.

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Overwhelming Opposition Floods HHS Refusal Clause Proposal: 200,000+

By Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check

September 26, 2008 - 3:13pm

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HHS is characterizing the number of comments as "higher than average" and RH Reality Check has obtained estimates from several organizations suggesting at 200,000 comments are in opposition. Don't forget the 325,000 petitions turned in before the rule was issued, as Americans attempt to prevent ideology from trumping medical science.

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