Senate Rejects Protecting Abortion-Conscience Rights for Doctors

LifeNews.com ^ | April 3, 2009 | Steven Ertelt

[julieee]

Washington, DC -- The Senate on Thursday night rejected an amendment from a pro-life senator that would have provided conscience protection on abortion for doctors and medical centers. The amendment comes at a time when President Barack Obama is considering overturning further protections.

[11th Commandment]

In America, a volunteer Soldier can be excluded from War duty under the conscience clause. But a private sector Doctor, who takes an oath to do NO HARM, can be forced to perform an abortion.

AM I MISSING SOMETHING!!

[ex-snook]

"Um...m...m, that’s the right they just lost."

Nah, just think Rosa Parks.

[NTHockey]

Kaufman, the seat warmer from DE, is a cino. As for the rest who voted for murder,

KISS MY @$$! I REFUSE!

[Constitutions Grandchild]

So, like I need to use shoe polish to qualify????? ;-) No amount of time in a tanning bed will ever turn my blonde, blue-eyed a$$ into the appropriately victimized individual who can get by with it.

[HighlyOpinionated]

I just emailed Pope Benedict XVI.

Part of my letter:
God would not have sent the Angel Gabriel to the Blessed Virgin Mary BEFORE she was over shadowed by the Holy Spirit to tell her “the Holy which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God” (Douay-Rheims Luke 2:35b) unless God was telling her that before the “over shadowing” there was no ‘life’ within her, but afterward, there not only was life, but that He would be The Life and her Life. Jesus existed as a life, as a living person, from the moment of the Holy Spirit’s over shadowing of The Blessed Mother. Now if that’s not God speaking to us about when life begins . . . what else is?

[jmaroneps37]

Obama’s Friday order to Catholic hospitals: Shut up, commit abortions or I’ll shut you down
March 2, 2009,

By Kevin “Coach” Collins

http://collinsreport.net

The underhanded Obama administration has quietly moved to rescind the “conscience clause” found in agreements between the federal government and Catholic hospitals.

This “conscience clause” has always protected practitioners from being forced to commit abortions in violation of their consciences. Its removal means Catholic hospitals will be forced to choose between federal funds for committing abortions and closing down to maintain a clear conscience.

Phonies with egg on their faces

Nevertheless, phony “Catholic” judas goats like Douglas Kmiec are still beating their chests with pride at having delivered 52% of the Catholic vote to the abortion team last fall.

In January Kmiec smugly wrote “The scurrilous remarks of conservative bloggers missed the point, which was that I and millions of others who voted for Obama did so not despite our Catholic faith but because of it.”

As a proud “conservative blogger” I have to ask this vile man how voting for a monster who could allow miracle abortion surviving infants to die unattended on a cold steel table in a broom closet is Catholic faith.

Reminding us why print media is dying, two weeks ago Time’s Amy Sullivan instructed us “confused Catholics”, that FOCA does not even exist. Insisting it will not be considered, she gently explains FOCA is merely a myth imagined by our Bishops which will not be voted on in Congress so it can’t threaten the sanctity of life.

Perhaps Sullivan could discern a comforting difference between being sent to a “work camp” rather than a “concentration camp” but her logic escapes me. The truth may be Obama doesn’t sign anything named FOCA, but whether it’s called FOCA or the Sunshine and Applesauce law, he’ll sign a law extorting Catholic hospitals into committing abortions thereby killing Catholic hospitals.

Obama’s sneaky order proves both of these phonies wrong.

In many ways this is the clarion call we have been waiting for. It sweeps aside the self delusions of many liberals who could not believe Barack Obama is the Marxist we have been saying he is right along. Making this announcement when he did shows he is a coward and doesn’t have the stomach for the fight we have to give him over this and many other issues. The battle is joined. Pick a side. Will you sit and watch or take action?

[geologist]

Where is freedom in this ?

There is a shortage of Doctors and I imagine it will increase, when Doctors must obey the governments decisions about how they are allowed to follow their desired profession. That creates a whole new set of problems.

This whole process of sending our tax money to Washington, where is has proved to return about 25% of the monies to the individual states. VERY inefficient was of handling money. The government is wasteful and careless, and nobody there thinks it matters anyway, as long as they get theirs.

The answer is in not sending income taxes to the federal government ... keep it in your own state

OH! We know how well California is doing; and New York ... wait there must be another way.

Government health care is another infamous plan bound to waste as much on the bureaucracy, as on the health care itself.

God have mercy on us ... we ask for Your Help ... forgive our selfish ways, and turn our hearts to You. AMEN.

[jmaroneps37]

Every “Catholic” who voted for this should be “Book Bell and Candled” out of the Church.

[sniper63]

Easy enough fix, all the Docotrs need do is state the fee of $1,000,000.00 per abortion. This way, if you can’t pay go somewhere else.

[ReformationFan]

“Easy enough fix, all the Docotrs need do is state the fee of $1,000,000.00 per abortion. This way, if you can’t pay go somewhere else.”

Good solution. Can individual doctors actually set their own prices?

[TheFourthMagi]

Which Republican Senators voted the wrong way?

[Lauren BaRecall]

So what does Michael Steele have to say about Spector, Snowe and Collins NOW?

[sniper63]

Private practice, yes they can.