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President Obama has decided that if a doctor or nurse refuses to participate in procedures they believe are morally wrong, like an abortion, they can be punished by their employer.
We have just a couple of weeks to tell President Obama and HHS how horrified we are that he intends to take away the Right of Conscience for health care professionals. By law, President Obama is required to open this policy change up to public comments for 30 days. Our time is almost up! Send your comments today.
Recently we received an e-mail from Mary, a health care worker and SBA List member, in Virginia, who told us,
“I can assure you that my colleagues and myself will leave the profession rather than be forced to participate in such activities...I will not go against the beliefs I have lived my entire life following. Our country already has a critical shortage of nurses, doctors, and technicians to care for the growing population who require experienced, dedicated workers to provide the extremely difficult and highly technical procedures available. We have to take an oath to 'do no harm' before we receive our license to work. I honor my promises, no matter the cost to me personally."
Mary, we are with you! We are shocked and heartsick about this. Maybe others are too. We are making our voices heard!
This does not apply only to abortion. President Obama’s actions are a direct assault on the rights and freedoms of all doctors and nurses.
Click below to be taken to a page where you can tell the Obama administration to protect the rights of conscience for thousands of people like our friend Mary!
wow, that is scary. I can see the wrongful termination suits coming now.
I wonder what will happen to hospitals (mostly nonprofits) that won't as a hospital perform abortions?
Thanks for that - I sent my message supporting overturning this Act, and hope that it goes away soon. My health care should not be subject to the moral idiosyncrasies of every health care provider out there.
This is not good! It is not the place of the gov to dictate what and how a DR. treats his patients as far as what procedures they perform in their offices.
Very touchy subject. I'm pro-life, but I'm also free market. I feel that if you fail to perform services requested by your employer that they have the right to punish you, no matter what those services are. This isn't a case of the government telling people that they must perform abortions, it's a case of the government staying out of the way of the free market and letting private business run their operations how they see fit. Now, we as citizens can, and should, refuse to do business with any employers that force their employees to perform morally objectionable acts. The thought of an industry who's sole business is to promote health and save lives forcing their employees to perform abortions is repugnant.
Take your religious mumbo jumbo dogma and keep it to hell out of my government. Licenced professionals have a job to do, if they take a job that requires them to act professionally performing a legal procedure and they refuse then they should be fired, period. A pharmacist refusing to fill a perscription for a morning after pill (I know of a case where the druggist kept the perscription) for instance. Case like that with me the pharmacist would be hospitalized for some time, I would be out jail b4 he/she was discharged, if I am going to get in trouble for somthing like that I tend to do it right. Were I do be a car theif for instance, I would not take a 1996 Chrysler K car, I would go for the new Mercedes, punishment is the same.
It is not up to the nurse, pharmacist to pass their moral judgements in cases where the Dr and patient have made a judgement. I think their professional licence should be revolked coast to coast, never to practice their profession again if they pull a stunt as you discussed. Mary needs to be a nurse at an elementary school or old folks home. Should doing their job upsets their delicate moral sensibilities, I can only say they picked the wrong profession, or they need to work in an area of their profession where they will not be put in a position to make the decision that would challenge their moral code.
I support Obama 100% in this. I addressed underlings, not Dr.s. If a Dr. refuses an abortion, that is his call, but it is not up to a Nurse to refuse to do his/her job.
What other morals are we suppose to be forced to give up?
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Licenced professionals have a job to do, if they take a job that requires them to act professionally performing a legal procedure and they refuse then they should be fired, period. A pharmacist refusing to fill a perscription for a morning after pill (I know of a case where the druggist kept the perscription) for instance. Case like that with me the pharmacist would be hospitalized for some time, I would be out jail b4 he/she was discharged, if I am going to get in trouble for somthing like that I tend to do it right.
Were I do be a car theif for instance, I would not take a 1996 Chrysler K car, I would go for the new Mercedes, punishment is the same.
