Health Care Professionals: First Black President Should End Religious Discrimination
(CNSNews.com) – Health care professionals on Wednesay urged President Barack Obama not to rescind the "conscience clause" -- the Health and Human Services (HHS) regulation that bars federally funded groups from discriminating against medical workers who, for moral reasons, refuse to perform medical procedures such as abortion and prescribing the "morning-after" pill.
Doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals wearing white coats and green scrubs spoke at the National Press Club on Wednesday.
The event came one day before the end of the 30-day public comment period on the HHS regulation. After midnight on Apr. 9 the Obama administration could remove the “Right to Conscience†rule from HHS regulations. The regulation was put into place on the last day of the Bush administration.
“If anyone should understand the ugliness of discrimination, it is our first African American president,†Dr. David Stevens, CEO of the Christian Medical Association, told CNSNews.com. “My prayer is that he will wake up to what is really going on and let these regulations stand.â€
What is happening, Stevens and other health care professionals said, is an ongoing campaign to discriminate against doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other medical workers who oppose performing procedures or filling prescriptions for religious reasons. They said some conscientious objectors are not being admitted to medical schools and are being passed over for promotions.
MOREFree will? Consience? Religious freedom?
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