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Stories of Discrimination
"I am a Registered Nurse currently employed at an outpatient podiatry surgery center. Last week; I was told by my administrator that OB/GYN doctors had signed on to perform surgeries at our center. There is a very large Catholic Hospital across the street that specializes in OB/GYN services. So it was very strange that these doctors would come to our small podiatry center. Our administrator stated there was a possibility abortions would be performed at our surgery center. Three of the four nurses stated they wouldn't assist with abortions due to convictions/ethical beliefs. Our administrator responded with, 'If you have a problem assisting with abortions, we have NO PLACE FOR YOU here." She stated, 'As nurses; you don't have a CHOICE!'"
Preserve conscience rights in health care 
Life-honoring healthcare professionals have experienced firings, disrimination and coercion. Yet the administration plans to remove the only regulation protecting their freedom of conscience.
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July 27, 2010
Read these latest Freedom2Care blogs:
- No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act would protect conscience rights
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- Conscience protection gap in healthcare overhaul law poses threat to poor patients
CMA: Military physicians sign letter to Senate to keep abortion out of military medicine
The Christian Medical Association is inviting active and retired military physicians to sign onto a letter opposing partisan efforts to introduce elective abortions into military medicine. The letter from CMA military physicians urges U.S. Senators to vote NO on the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 (DoD) (S.3280) because it contains a controversial abortion provision--Sen. Roland Burris' amendment to strike Section 1093(b) of Title 10 of the US Code.
Washington Post: "New health-care law raises concerns about respecting providers' consciences"
Deep within the massive health-care overhaul legislation, a few little-noticed provisions have quietly reignited one of the bitterest debates in medicine: how to balance the right of doctors, nurses and other workers to refuse to provide services on moral or religious grounds with the right of patients to get care.
"At the end of the day regarding the legislation, a pro-life health-care professional is left with a weak and limited conscience provision that doesn't even prohibit discrimination by governments and institutions," said Jonathan Imbody, vice president for government relations at the Christian Medical Association. Read full article
Washington Post column: Bringing humanity back to the abortion debate
Can an unborn child feel pain? That question will dominate the abortion debate in America for the next several years thanks to Gov. Dave Heineman of Nebraska. Last week, Heineman signed the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act into law, banning abortions in Nebraska at and after 20 weeks based on growing scientific evidence that an unborn child at that age can feel pain. Read full column
Medical journal: Healthcare bill may trigger "Financial Armageddon"
The New England Journal of Medicine this month features a startling commentary on healthcare reform entitled, "The Specter of Financial Armageddon - Health Care and Federal Debt in the United States." The authors declare at the outset, "The most important force shaping the U.S. health care system over the coming decades may well be the federal debt." Read full commentary
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