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Lawsuits challenge 'right of conscience' rule
Lawsuits challenge 'right of conscience' rule
Chicago Tribune
Attorneys general from Illinois and five other states filed lawsuits in federal court today seeking to block the government from implementing its new “right of conscience” rule.
The controversial rule is due to go into effect Jan. 20, the day President-elect Barack Obama takes office.
It appears to allow health care workers to decline to provide birth control and other reproductive health care services to women, without sanction, if the workers cite moral or religious objectives. For more than 30 years, doctors have had a similar right to opt out of performing abortions.
“This eleventh-hour Bush administration regulation would severely limit women’s access to critical health care services,” said Lisa Madigan, Illinois’ attorney general, in a statement. “If enforced, (it) will disparately impact low-income, uninsured and under-insured women who rely on (family planning) programs for their health information and services.”
“This eleventh-hour Bush administration regulation would severely limit women’s access to critical health care services,” said Lisa Madigan, Illinois’ attorney general, in a statement.
“If enforced, (it) will disparately impact low-income, uninsured and under-insured women who rely on (family planning) programs for their health information and services.”
Joining in three lawsuits filed in federal court in Connecticut were attorney generals from California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association and Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
The complaints allege that the new right of conscience rule is illegal because it doesn’t clarify which medical procedures are covered, how abortion is to be defined, or what services risk losing federal funding if states do not comply.
Also, the lawsuits contend that the rule interferes with a woman’s right to be free of government interference when seeking reproductive health services.
Supporters of the new rule welcomed its protections for medical professionals who refuse to engage in what one group called “morally abhorrent procedures.”
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WHY isn't your state part of this lawsuit? Wisconsin is not because the people here were tricked into voting for a right to lifer Republican attorney general and the Democrat Gov Doyle acts like a Republican except when he is campaigning for Obama.
Chicago Tribune
Attorneys general from Illinois and five other states filed lawsuits in federal court today seeking to block the government from implementing its new “right of conscience” rule.
The controversial rule is due to go into effect Jan. 20, the day President-elect Barack Obama takes office.
It appears to allow health care workers to decline to provide birth control and other reproductive health care services to women, without sanction, if the workers cite moral or religious objectives. For more than 30 years, doctors have had a similar right to opt out of performing abortions.
“This eleventh-hour Bush administration regulation would severely limit women’s access to critical health care services,” said Lisa Madigan, Illinois’ attorney general, in a statement. “If enforced, (it) will disparately impact low-income, uninsured and under-insured women who rely on (family planning) programs for their health information and services.”
“This eleventh-hour Bush administration regulation would severely limit women’s access to critical health care services,” said Lisa Madigan, Illinois’ attorney general, in a statement.
“If enforced, (it) will disparately impact low-income, uninsured and under-insured women who rely on (family planning) programs for their health information and services.”
Joining in three lawsuits filed in federal court in Connecticut were attorney generals from California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association and Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
The complaints allege that the new right of conscience rule is illegal because it doesn’t clarify which medical procedures are covered, how abortion is to be defined, or what services risk losing federal funding if states do not comply.
Also, the lawsuits contend that the rule interferes with a woman’s right to be free of government interference when seeking reproductive health services.
Supporters of the new rule welcomed its protections for medical professionals who refuse to engage in what one group called “morally abhorrent procedures.”
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WHY isn't your state part of this lawsuit? Wisconsin is not because the people here were tricked into voting for a right to lifer Republican attorney general and the Democrat Gov Doyle acts like a Republican except when he is campaigning for Obama.
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