Further info on laws designed to deny care to women

[amilyn]

neadods posted an update on the situation with medical "conscience objection" and the dangers introduced by the DHHS's new position. She also has excellent links to previous situations with extreme refusal of care that could become legal with the new systems.With the choice of the incredibly anti-choice Palin as anti-choice McCain's running mate, this

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[spiletta42]

I believe allowing conscience objection is valid in the case of actual abortion -- forcing someone to actively perform a hands-on procedure that causes the death of a child is just as wrong as forcing a woman to have an unwanted abortion. However, they've taken a law meant to protect against that kind of injustice and twisted it so badly that now they're doing something just as evil in a different way, and actively blocking women from birth control, and worse yet using randomly invented pseudo-science to support it.

This makes me furious. Thanks for sharing.

[amilyn]

I'm glad you're as furious as I am. I'm also terrified.

For extra information, the right to object to performing a procedure on basis of conscience is already included in federal law for doctors and pharmacists (and, I believe, nurses).

This law is trying to expand those rights to anyone who works in ANY facet of healthcare--including the person who cleans instruments, or the person who mops the floor or washes the linens or answers the phones or makes appointments

[neadods]

the person who mops the floor or washes the linens or answers the phones

Or not answers the phones.

I have also heard of, although I don't have solid links for, people "losing" appointments for abortions so that the patient shows up but won't be seen because the information was never recorded.