{"id":2363,"date":"2013-03-04T17:29:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T01:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2363"},"modified":"2018-03-08T21:07:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T05:07:39","slug":"protection-of-conscience-bill-introduced-in-u-s-house-of-representatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2363","title":{"rendered":"Protection of conscience bill introduced in U.S. House of Representatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/law\/proposed\/usa-federal-019.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Health Care Conscience Rights Act <\/em><\/a>has been\u00a0introduced by Congresswoman Dianne Black of Tennessee, Congressman Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska and Congressman Doctor John Fleming of Louisiana. It is supported by fifty members of the US House of Representatives.\u00a0 The measure, and others like it, are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/issues-and-action\/religious-liberty\/conscience-protection\/upload\/Letter-from-Archbishop-Lori-to-Congress.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">supported<\/a> by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.\u00a0 Similarly, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sba-list.org\/sites\/default\/files\/content\/shared\/black-fleming_conscience_protections_in_cr_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">letter<\/a> sent to the House leadership in late February by 14 members of Congress, 13 of them women,asked that freedom of conscience be legally protected.\u00a0 They wrote, &#8220;Congress cannot ignore the relentless assault on the First Amendment right to religious freedom.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Health Care Conscience Rights Act has been\u00a0introduced by Congresswoman Dianne Black of Tennessee, Congressman Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska and Congressman Doctor John Fleming of Louisiana. It is supported by fifty members of the US House of Representatives.\u00a0 The measure, and others like it, are supported by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.\u00a0 Similarly, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2363\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Protection of conscience bill introduced in U.S. House of Representatives&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,760,28],"tags":[2084],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-2363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-proposed-laws","category-usa","tag-us-conference-of-catholic-bishops-usccb"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Protection of conscience bill introduced in U.S. House of Representatives - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2363\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Protection of conscience bill introduced in U.S. House of Representatives - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Health Care Conscience Rights Act has been\u00a0introduced by Congresswoman Dianne Black of Tennessee, Congressman Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska and Congressman Doctor John Fleming of Louisiana. 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