Jivin J’s Life Links 2-27-09
by JivinJ
Taking another step into the abortion debate, the Obama administration today will move to rescind a controversial rule that allows healthcare workers to deny abortion counseling or other family planning services if doing so would violate their moral beliefs, according to administration officials….
The officials said the administration will consider drafting a new rule to clarify what healthcare workers can reasonably refuse to do for their patients….
Meanwhile the overall rate for all girls under 18 rose for the first time since 2002.
It means that a Government target to halve the number of teenage pregnancies by next year now looks almost certain be missed despite intense efforts to promote contraception and more sex education in schools.
At least one leading abortion advocate in Great Britain doesn’t feel the need to hide behind the rhetoric that abortion should be rare:
Ann Furedi, chief executive of the charity the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, the UK’s largest abortion provider, said: “The fact that half of the teenagers in this position felt able to end their pregnancy in abortion is actually a positive sign.”
She described the fact that there is less social stigma among young people about having an abortion as “an entirely good thing”.
Chantrienes Barker, now in state prison, was an inmate at the jail on Dec. 2, 1998. The lawsuit says she went into labor and was taken to Hutzel Hospital, where she stayed for 2 hours before she was discharged shortly before midnight.
Back at the jail, Barker’s labor pains intensified but no one checked on her for more than 2 hours, according to the lawsuit. Other inmates screamed and banged on toilets and cell bars to alert the guards.
Officers eventually responded and summoned paramedics, who arrived to immediately find the baby’s head emerging around 2 a.m. on Dec. 3, the lawsuit says.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
It’s like a tidal wave of evil.
This may take it into spiritual warfare.
If some employer fires a worker that on religious grounds wants to not participate, the financial settlement may be able to break them.
Wonder how this administration gets around the constitution? We may have a supreme court showdown.
the new Oba-mao Manifesto is getting bold.
I think this just alerts us to the fact that this has always been spiritual warfare.
So this is how Obama celebrates Lent.
http://theanchoressonline.com/2009/02/27/obama-your-conscience-means-nothing-to-me/
My first reaction to this (read the comments too) isn’t apropos of the season. Be angry and sin not? Well, the first part’s easy . . .
If some employer fires a worker that on religious grounds wants to not participate, the financial settlement may be able to break them.
xppc, What I’m hearing is not a concern about being fired but rather the concern about increased risk of malpractice lawsuits by patients.
This is O imposing his ideology on faith-based health care settings and infringing on the religious liberty of individual practitioners working in these settings.
I hope muslim health care professionals will speak out forcefully against this. It will be much less politically correct for O to infringe on their religious liberties than for him to go after others such as Catholics.
That O forces this issue in the current financial climate shows how much he values ideology over economy. He’s all for bailing out irresponsible mortgage holders, but do you think he’s going to bail out health care workers who choose to abandon the practice of their profession as a matter of conscience?