Charmaine from Reasoned Audacity - Quoted in CitizenLink
If you fight against IL Gov. Rod Blagojevich, you might be a good-guy.
If you win against IL Gov. Rod Blagojevich, you right be on the side of the angels.
Charmaine was interviewed for CitizenLink, a division of Focus on the Family,
Good News: Illinois Pharmacists Can Challenge Discriminatory Rule,
"This is a huge victory for the freedom of conscience of all health care providers," said Dr. Charmaine Yoest, president and CEO of Americans United for Life. "Pharmacists now have proper recourse against a discriminatory law that would force them to check their
constitutional rights at the workplace door."
Here's how it started against Illinois governor Blago,
CitizenLink also quotes AUL's legal eagle Denise Burke,
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Good News:
Regulations Protect Doctors' Freedom of Conscience
Life advocates are praising the timing of new government rules that protect health care providers' freedom of conscience.
The Department of Health and Human Services put the regulations in place last week to reinforce rules that protect doctors from being forced to participate in abortion and other anti-life practices.
"By releasing them now, they will be in the federal register for 30 days before the Obama administration takes office," said Denise Burke, vice president and legal director for Americans United for Life. "For that reason, the Obama administration cannot simply erase these rules."
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Planned Parenthood's Cecile Richards does not care for rights of conscience. (Except her own conscience -- don't even think about asking her about her own abortion.) David G. Savage at LA Times writes,
Health providers' 'conscience' rule to take effect The last-minute Bush administration declaration lets doctors, clinics, receptionists and others refuse to give care they find morally objectionable.
"We are shocked that the Bush administration chose to finalize its midnight regulation and to take this parting shot at women's health and ignore patients' rights to receive critical healthcare services and information they deserve," said Cecile Richards, president of the
Planned Parenthood Federation of America, in a statement. "We look forward to working with President-elect Obama and leaders in Congress to repeal this disastrous rule and expand patients' access to full healthcare information and services, not limit it."
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