Follow Up Obama To Doctors, You Will Kill

The Doctors are coming out against this.

Hey folks,

Last Sunday, I posted this. Obama To Doctors, You Will Kill I pointed out to you that Obama plans to repeal a Bush Administration rule that Doctors have a right not to participate in abortions.

The regulation, instituted in the last days of the Bush Administration, strengthened job protections for doctors and nurses who refuse to provide a medical service because of moral qualms.

I said this.

Time to get active again folks. Start writing, typing and calling and let them know how you feel. This is completely ridicules, however, predictable. Of course Obama, who wants Universal Healthcare, Government controlled Healthcare, wants to tell Doctors, "I do not care if you like it, believe in it, or not, you WILL kill babies." I agree with Tom McClusky.

Well, on Thursday March 5, 2009, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) released this statement.

Today the Obama Administration published a proposed regulation to repeal the Provider Conscience Rule, which protects medical caregivers against being forced to do procedures contrary to their conscience.

This is a big step towards government tyranny over the medical profession.

Medical professionals should never be compelled to violate their consciences in treating patients. The integrity of the practice of medicine depends on physicians being able to decline to do what they feel is wrong.

Jane Orient, M.D., observed, "It is outrageous that the Obama Administration would move so aggressively to interfere with the practice of medicine in this country. A doctor's right to conscience is essential to preserving the integrity of the profession, and we will continue to stand in defense of it."

Saddam Hussein ordered doctors to amputate the right hands of merchants who conducted business in dollars, and atrocities of the Holocaust were perpetrated by ordering doctors to do inhumane and unthinkable procedures. We do not ever want to allow that in the United States.

But the Obama Administration is ordering the repeal in its entirety of the essential protection of the right to conscience. This exposes physicians, pharmacists, nurses and all caregivers to being forced to do what they think is wrong.

It seems that "change" under the Obama Administration really means a return to inhumane mistakes of the past. No patient is safe when doctors and others can be coerced to violate their consciences.

Absolutely.

AAPS is a non-profit, professional association of physicians in all specialties, dedicated since 1943 to protection of the patient-physician relationship. It accepts no corporate or government funding, and its board members and officers serve without compensation.

Peter

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Association of American Physicians and Surgeons

Obama To Doctors, You Will Kill

Another Non-surprise by Obama

Hey folks,

Obama fought against the ban on LATE Term Abortions. Worse yet, he fought against a bill that would PROTECT babies that were failed attempts of late term abortions. Babies born alive and left to die. On March 30, 2001, he argued this on the floor of the Illinois State Senate.

"Number one, whenever we define a preventable fetus as a person that is protected by the equal protection clause or other elements in the Constitution, what we are saying is, in fact, they are persons entitled to the kinds of protections that would be provided to a,,a child, a nine month old, that was delivered to term. That determination then, essentially, if it were accepted by a court, would forbid abortions to take place. I mean it,,it,,would bar abortions, because the equal protection clause does not allow someone to kill a child."

Of course he couldn't be honest and say, "well, I believe life begins whenever the Mother decides it does." Now he says he would limit abortions in late stages of pregnancy, but we know where he stands on this.

So now? AP Source: Obama to rescind Bush abortion rule By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama plans to repeal a Bush administration rule that has become a flash point in the debate over a doctor's right not to participate in abortions. The regulation, instituted in the last days of the Bush administration, strengthened job protections for doctors and nurses who refuse to provide a medical service because of moral qualms.

A Health and Human Services official said Friday the administration will publish notice of its intentions early next week, opening a 30-day comment period for advocates on both sides, medical groups and the public.

Time to get active again folks. Start writing, typing and calling and let them know how you feel. This is completely ridicules, however, predictable. Of course Obama, who wants Universal Healthcare, Government controlled Healthcare, wants to tell Doctors, "I do not care if you like it, believe in it, or not, you WILL kill babies." I agree with Tom McClusky.

"It would be a horrible move. These regulations were a long time coming," said Tom McClusky, a vice president at Family Research Council. "What they seek to do is protect patients, nurses, doctors and other health care professionals from being forced to violate their consciences."

Or course the Libs like it.

"I think it's a wonderful step," Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., who co-chairs the Congressional Pro-choice Caucus and has introduced legislation to overturn the regulation, said of Obama's move.

"That rule was actually a poorly drafted last-minute attempt to, I think, restrict health care access and I think it would have had far-reaching and unintended consequences."

{Sigh} Same old rhetoric. Sorry, if I was a Doctor and someone from the Government told me I had to perform an act I believe to be immoral or unethical, I would simply tell them to screw off. Sorry, I would. I hope Doctors, nurses a, and other do the same.

Federal law has long forbidden discrimination against health care professionals who refuse to perform abortions or provide referrals for them on religious or moral grounds. The Obama administration supports those laws, said the HHS official.

The Bush administration's rule adds a requirement that institutions that get federal money certify their compliance with laws protecting the rights of moral objectors. It was intended to block the flow of federal funds to hospitals and other institutions that ignore those rights.

But the Obama administration was concerned that the Bush regulation went too far and could also be used to refuse birth control, family planning services and counseling for vaccines and transfusions.

The White House released a statement saying that Obama supports a "carefully crafted" conscience clause — not Bush's version.

"He believes this issue requires a balance between the rights of providers and the health of women and their families, a balance that the last-minute Bush rule appears to upset," the statement said.

No it didn't. There were those, and still are, that feel that Doctors should be FORCED to perform abortions, even if they object to the practice. Bush's regulation simply took the threat of frivolous Lawsuit in an attempt to force or shut down healthcare facilities that did not kill innocent lives.

The administration will review comments from the public before making a final decision. Options range from repealing the regulation to writing a new one with a narrower scope.

The administration's move was first reported by the Los Angeles Times.

Yeah OK. That worked out well with the Stimulus Plan. Did it not? But do not let that discourage you. TELL them what you think. Let them know, that YOU know, what this is all about. Let them know that you believe that Doctors should make their own decisions. There are plenty of options out there. Plenty of places people can go to Kill their children. If a Doctor or an Institution decides that they do not believe in killing innocent lives, that should be THEIR choice.
Peter

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AP Source: Obama to rescind Bush abortion rule
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