(USA: 2008)
- Freedom2Care.org | Brief examples that demonstrate the often subtle, sometimes flagrant and increasingly pervasive discrimination faced by pro-life, faith-based and conscience-driven individuals in the healthcare professions. Full Text
Category: United States
Medical student charged by professor with “abandonment” for no abortion referral
(USA: 2008)
- Freedom2Care.org | Brief examples that demonstrate the often subtle, sometimes flagrant and increasingly pervasive discrimination faced by pro-life, faith-based and conscience-driven individuals in the healthcare professions. Full Text
Testimony of nurse re: Wisconsin Assembly Bill 67
Before Wisconsin Senate Committee on Health, Children, Families, Aging and Long-Term Care
Wisconsin, USA
. . . I . . . experienced an onslaught of disciplinary reprimands, retaliation, criticism and
ostracism. . . I was no longer assigned to train or mentor new nurses despite my credentials and qualifications. . . .I was denied career advancement to clinical nurse three status, as the research project which qualified me for advancement, was resigned to another nurse without my prior knowledge or consent. I was grilled as a “second class nurse” or “nobody”. . .[Full text]
The campaign to force hospitals to provide abortion
Forty-five states and the federal government protect the right of health care providers to
decline involvement in abortion. Pro-abortion groups seek to abolish these legal protections.
Consider the following:
Abortion Access Project
Operating in twenty-four states, the project’s goal is “increasing access to abortion services by expanding . . . the number of hospitals offering abortion services.” The project admits that its tactics include “pressuring hospitals” and it does so through both political and legal pressure. The “Hospital Access Collaborative” division reports on the state projects’ legal and regulatory interventions challenging mergers. [Full text]
Testimony of pharmacist re: Wisconsin Assembly Bill 63
Wisconsin
Before the Assembly Labour Committee
Although there is an extremely high demand for pharmacists in our state, I have had to be very selective as to where I am willing to work because I cannot go against my conscience. . . Although pharmacy jobs in the retail sector were generally plentiful . . . I accepted a position at a newly created pharmacy . . .that served only nursing home patients. . . . I actually would have preferred working in the retail sector but I didn’t feel I had any protection if I requested to refrain from filling prescriptions that had abortifacient potential. [Full Text]