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People Who Are Refused Reproductive Health Care Can't Always "Just Go Someplace Else"!

reader diary by Jill Morrison, National Women's Law Center

April 16, 2009 - 10:16am (Print)

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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White House Releases Draft Rule Rescinding Right-to-Refuse Regulation

by Emily Douglas

March 6, 2009 - 2:35pm (Print)

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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The Facts on the Conscience Rule

by Kristin Williams, Faith in Public Life

February 27, 2009 - 4:40pm (Print)

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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Obama Administration May Rescind "Conscience" Rule

by Cristina Page, Moderator, OnCommonGround

February 27, 2009 - 11:55am (Print)

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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House Committee Holds Hearing on HHS Provider Conscience Regulation

by Emily Douglas

February 4, 2009 - 11:39am (Print)

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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Welcome, President Obama - Fight for Reproductive Rights Continues

by Kris Hamel, DANFORR

January 20, 2009 - 8:00am (Print)

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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Stop HHS Regulations: Sign the Petition!

by Emily Douglas

January 5, 2009 - 4:53pm (Print)

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 - 8:00am (Print)

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 - 8:00am (Print)

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 and Timothy E. Wirth, Planned Parenthood Federation of America and United Nations Foundation

December 19, 2008 - 12:39pm (Print)

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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