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Bush 'Conscientious Refusal' Puts Us All At Risk

by Dr. Wendy Chavkin, Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health

September 25, 2008 - 7:00am (Print)

Whatever religious values medical providers hold, we must also respect our patients' right to know all of their treatment options. For us, patients come first.

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Clinton, Murray Urge Leavitt to Protect Patients' Access to Care

by Emily Douglas

September 24, 2008 - 12:06pm (Print)

Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Patty Murray met yesterday with Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt to express their disagreement with proposed HHS regulations that would broaden existing provider conscience protections.

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Medical Groups Protest New HHS Regulations

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

September 24, 2008 - 12:00pm (Print)

Major medical professional organizations join together to protest new HHS regulations that would damage the integrity of the relationship between patients and health care providers.

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HHS Regs Would Cover All Religious Convictions

by Lon Newman, Family Planning Health Services

September 24, 2008 - 7:00am (Print)

If new HHS regulations are adopted, family planning service providers could be forced to hire people who have moral objections to contraception and would be unable to discipline employees who refuse to provide birth control.

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Roundup: Sex Education, Impending HHS Regulation and Changing Abortion Demographics

by Brady Swenson, RH Reality Check

September 23, 2008 - 10:22am (Print)

Response to a confusing critique of D.C.'s sex education curriculum; An interview with Judy Waxman on the eve of the impending HHS "conscience" regulation; Roundup of reporting on the new Guttmacher abortion demographics study.

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Top Five Reasons You Should Protest New HHS Regulations

by David Castillo, National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association

September 23, 2008 - 7:00am (Print)

New HHS regulations will do nothing to contribute to the universal goal of reducing the number of unintended pregnancies.

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New HHS Regs Would Hit Low-Income Women, Women of Color Hardest

by Bethany Sousa, Center for Reproductive Rights

September 22, 2008 - 7:00am (Print)

Under current law, recipients of federal money cannot force medical professionals to provide abortion or sterilization services if they object for moral or religious reasons. But proposed regulations would expand these laws at patients' expense.

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Countdown to Conscience Clause Regulation

by Rachel Walden, Our Bodies, Ourselves; Women's Health News

September 19, 2008 - 7:00am (Print)

New "provider conscience" regulations proposed by HHS could severely limit women's access to contraception and other health care. During a public comment period, the department continued to frustrate advocates' effort to comment on the new regulations.

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Using Pseudoscience at HHS

by Kathleen Barry, Women Donors Network

September 18, 2008 - 7:00am (Print)

The extremists are coming out of the closet with their real agenda: the assault on birth control.

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President's Committee on Bioethics Debates Provider, Patient Conscience

by David J. Nolan, Catholics for Choice

September 16, 2008 - 7:00am (Print)

As the deadline for public comment on the new Department of Health and Human Services refusal clause regulations nears, the President's Committee on Bioethics discussed how conscience relates to health care at its meeting last week.

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