Posted on 07/16/2008 10:53:22 AM PDT by victim soul
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Just one day after news of the proposal became public, Planned Parenthood is attacking a Bush administration plan to help pro-life doctors. The tentative rule would ensure pro-life physicians, nurses and other medical personnel don't face hiring discrimination if they refuse to be involved in abortions.
Although Planned Parenthood touts abortion as a voluntary choice, Cecile Richards, the president of the abortion business, attacked the proposal to help doctors avoid abortion coercion.
Richards called the idea to stop hiring discrimination a way for President Bush to "sell-out women's health in the most unbelievable way" and claimed it is a "massive betrayal of women and families."
"We've known for some time that anti-choice extremists have wanted President Bush to deliver them some sort of 'gift' before he leaves office. This rule change is just that gift," Richards contends.
Richards says the rule would apply to Planned Parenthood facilities because they receive federal funds.
"The rule would also require entities that receive family planning funding, like Planned Parenthood, to certify that we will not refuse to hire nurses and other providers who object to abortion and even certain types of birth control," she complains.
To stop the proposed rule, Planned Parenthood is launching a massive campaign against it, including emails to its membership to get them to contact President Bush and urge opposition to it.
While Planned Parenthood wants to force medical professionals to be involved in abortions and punish them when they don't, Wendy Wright, the president of Concerned Women for America, tells LifeNews.com the proposed rule is a good one.
"For over 35 years, federal laws have protected the conscientious rights of healthcare professionals, but they were not fully implemented for lack of thorough regulations to enforce them," she explains.
"As more controversial drugs and procedures get introduced, and additional pressure is put on healthcare providers to either compromise their moral commitments or lose their jobs, the need has become greater for regulations to catch up with the law," she told LifeNews.com.
Wright talked about the opposition from Planned Parenthood and said their opposition makes them look hypocritical.
"Clearly, abortion advocates do not believe in the 'right to choose' if the choice is not to participate in abortion or provide drugs that can take the life of a human being," she concluded.
ACTION: Send your comments to the White House in favor of the rule to protect doctors and nurses from being discriminated against in hiring if they oppose abortions. Send an email to comments@whitehouse.gov.
ACTION: Send your comments to the White House in favor of the rule to protect doctors and nurses from being discriminated against in hiring if they oppose abortions. Send an email to comments@whitehouse.gov.
I’ve always been curious about the legality of abortions. If abortions were made illegal, what would be the punishment for having one?
Apparently, you only have the “right to choose” if it’s the “right choice” in Planned Parenthood’s eyes!
What hypocrites!!
Hmmmm, that's what happens when you live off the government.
Yep, more and more liberal states are trying to sneak through rules that forces all health care professionals to do abortions. A few states are trying to make Catholic hospitals perform abortions.
Eugenicists have many NGOs, many funded by Gov’t. Some appear benign, PP being one that sounds rational at first, World Bank another.
I wonder how many pro-life docs and nurses have applied for jobs at Planned Parenthood.
They can’t get through their security guards.
Pope Tells Pharmacists Not to Dispense Drugs to Inhibit Implantation; Implications for Plan B at Catholic Hospitals
By John-Henry Westen
LifeSiteNews.com
Monday October 29, 2007
Source URL: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/oct/07102902.html
VATICAN CITY, October 29, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Speaking to Catholic pharmacists this morning, Pope Benedict XVI warned them against dispensing drugs “that have the goal of preventing the implantation of the embryo.” The comments should have an impact on the debate around the use of Plan B for rape victims at Catholic hospitals in the United States.
Michael Izzotti, the Canadian representative of Pharmacists for Life International told LifeSiteNews.com that the Pope’s comments address the controversy in the United States over the use of Plan B at Catholic hospitals. Izzotti rejected the assertion that the Pope’s comments would only apply to the abortion pill RU-486, insisting that they apply to Plan B - the morning after pill and even to the birth control pill.
“RU-486, the morning after pill, and even the birth control pill can cause the prevention of implantation,” he said.
Cristina Alarcon, another Catholic pharmacist in Canada, concurred. “Scientifically,” she said of Plan B, “one of the mechanisms is prevention of implantation.”
The Pope made his remarks in an address to the 25th international congress of Catholic pharmacists, currently being held in Rome, with the theme “The new frontiers of pharmaceutical activity.”
Speaking of “the ethical implications of the use of particular drugs,” he said, “we cannot anaesthetize consciences as regards, for example, the effect of certain molecules that have the goal of preventing the implantation of the embryo or shortening a person’s life.” He added: “Pharmacists must seek to raise people’s awareness so that all human beings are protected from conception to natural death, and so that medicines truly play a therapeutic role.”
The Pope called on pharmacists to refuse to participate in violations of the right to life with “conscientious objection”. He called the practice of conscientious objection, “a right that must be recognized for people exercising this profession, so as to enable them not to collaborate directly or indirectly in supplying products that have clearly immoral purposes such as, for example, abortion or euthanasia.”
Good for him. It is a Catholic hospital, the Pope should have say over it.
I’m about as pro-life as can be, but I’m a little concerned about this. Could this be used as precedent to, for example, force Christian organizations to hire homosexuals?
Assuming they would be made illegal because it was finally recognized that the unborn child is a human being, killing an unborn child would then be legally classified as murder. Therefore, the punishments associated with murder (and conspiracy to commit and so forth) would apply.
To make it quicker for people to email the White House, you should know that such emails are read first for the title you put in, and then to see whether you’re for or against it. They’ll tabulate the votes and hand the results to the president. So don’t bother writing a long email. Just say whether you’re for or against.
It only takes a couple of minutes this way, and it gets the same results as a long email.
You would have mothers and fathers executed?
Yes, I have no problem with the death penalty for those who commit murder.
This hysterical Richards chick talks like a psychotic.
OK, but it could result in a lot more foster children, unless they had a part in it also.
Possibly. From a societal point of view, I believe this is a better choice than killing a million children a year through abortion.
OK
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