{"id":2374,"date":"2013-03-01T02:53:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T10:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2374"},"modified":"2018-03-08T21:11:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T05:11:36","slug":"health-care-freedom-of-conscience-act-nebraska-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2374","title":{"rendered":"Health Care Freedom of Conscience Act (Nebraska)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Testimony of Clyde R. Meckel, MD<\/strong> |<br \/>\nThank you for the opportunity to testify in support of LB564- the Health Care Freedom of Conscience Act.\u00a0 The purpose of this bill is to respect and protect the fundamental right of conscience of licensed individuals who provide health care. This is a critical matter of protecting one of our most fundamental liberties.<strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/law\/commentary\/legal019.aspx\">Full Text<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Testimony of Clyde R. Meckel, MD | Thank you for the opportunity to testify in support of LB564- the Health Care Freedom of Conscience Act.\u00a0 The purpose of this bill is to respect and protect the fundamental right of conscience of licensed individuals who provide health care. This is a critical matter of protecting one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2374\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Health Care Freedom of Conscience Act (Nebraska)&#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":[8,28],"tags":[421,257],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-2374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-commentary","category-usa","tag-clyde-r-meckel","tag-nebraska"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Health Care Freedom of Conscience Act (Nebraska) - 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=2374\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Health Care Freedom of Conscience Act (Nebraska) - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Testimony of Clyde R. 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