HHS regulation
Reader diary posted by Jill Morrison, National Women's Law Center April 16, 2009 - 10:16am
Jill Morrison writes in her reader diary: Real people can suffer real harms as a result of religious refusals. Next time someone asks the question “What’s the big deal?” -- make sure you're prepared to tell them.
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Let's see some proof, the Obama administration said, in essence, today, to those who claimed that health care providers desperately needed further protection to prevent discrimination based on their religious objection to providing abortion care.
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Let's get the facts straight: revisiting the Bush "conscience clause" rule does not mean that providers who object to performing abortions will have to provide them.
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By Cristina Page, Moderator, OnCommonGround February 27, 2009 - 11:55am
The Obama administration takes the first step to rescind Bush's midnight regulations that would allow any health care worker to obstruct a woman's access to contraception.
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The Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law of the House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing today on the Bush administration's midnight regulations, including the Department of Health and Human Services's "provider conscience" regulation.
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In the November 2008 election, voters reaffirmed their support for reproductive rights and overwhelmingly chose Barack Obama for president who supports reproductive health access.
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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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By Jessica Arons, Center for American Progress and Center for American Progress Action Fund December 24, 2008 - 8:00am
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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By Dr. Anne Davis, Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health December 23, 2008 - 8:00am
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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By Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood Federation of America December 19, 2008 - 12:39pm
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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