Bush going to give last minute slam to feminists and destroy women's rights

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Bush going to give last minute slam to feminists and destroy women's rights

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Last-minute Bush abortion ruling causes furor...

A last-minute Bush administration plan to grant sweeping new protections to
health care providers who oppose abortion and other procedures on religious or
moral grounds has provoked a torrent of objections, including a strenuous
protest from the government agency that enforces job-discrimination laws.

The proposed rule would prohibit recipients of federal money from
discriminating against doctors, nurses and other health care workers who refuse
to perform or to assist in the performance of abortions or sterilization
procedures because of their "religious beliefs or moral convictions."

It would also prevent hospitals, clinics, doctors' offices and drugstores
from requiring employees with religious or moral objections to "assist in the
performance of any part of a health service program or research activity"
financed by the Department of Health and Human Services.

But three officials from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,
including its legal counsel, whom President George W. Bush appointed, said the
proposal would overturn 40 years of civil rights law prohibiting job
discrimination based on religion.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/18/america/abort.php

h/t BnR

ElizaQ ElizaQ's picture

 From Planned Parenthood

 

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The Bush administration promised not to issue any new regulations after November 1. But now, it is poised to implement a rule that could allow individual health care providers to redefine abortion to include the most common forms of birth control
— and then refuse to provide these basic services. A woman's ability to
manage her own health care is at risk of being compromised by politics
and ideology.

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This new rule could allow almost 600,000 health care entities that
receive federal funding to redefine abortion to include the most common
forms of birth control — and then refuse to provide these basic
services. For any health provider to intentionally withhold information
about widely embraced treatment options from a patient — for any health
condition — is absolutely unconscionable under any circumstances. It’s
outrageous that President Bush is using his last days in office to
implement a rule that would limit the rights of patients to receive
complete and accurate reproductive health information.

A woman's ability to manage her own health care is at risk of being
compromised by politics and ideology if this regulation goes into
effect.

The exam room is no place to play political games.

 

  The one bright spot in this BS  theopandering is that the incoming Obama admin has said they will do what they can to reverse this rule, though as per the article it will take several months. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

martin dufresne

Unless President Obama finds it expedient not to do so, given the predictable pressure from the very organizations he was pandering to during the last months of his campaign.

No such concerns for Afghan and Pakistani women from "tribal areas" he has promised military action against.Frown

ElizaQ ElizaQ's picture

martin dufresne wrote:

Unless President Obama finds it expedient not to do so, given the predictable pressure from the very organizations he was pandering to during the last months of his campaign.

 

 What organizations would those be?  

Stargazer

The organizations belonging to the religious wrong.