{"id":3509,"date":"2013-08-22T05:06:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T12:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3509"},"modified":"2018-03-08T20:40:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T04:40:17","slug":"doctor-ethicist-sees-ongoing-efforts-to-weaken-conscience-protections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3509","title":{"rendered":"Doctor-ethicist sees ongoing efforts to weaken conscience protections"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Boston Pilot<\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"author\">Peter Finney Jr.<\/p>\n<p>NEW ORLEANS (CNS) &#8212; Fine print contained in the Affordable Care Act has weakened conscience protections for physicians who oppose abortion, sterilization or other medical practices on religious or moral grounds, a doctor and ethicist told the American Academy of Fertility Care Professionals.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. John Brehany, executive director and ethicist of the Catholic Medical Association, said with the passage of the new health care law, commonly called Obamacare, &#8220;the federal government is posing real threats to faithful health care professionals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While Obamacare itself does have a couple of conscience-protection provisions built in, the fact is, if you look at the big picture, which are the old federal laws and what was achieved from 1973 to 2004, we are now missing some important protections, and we are now vague on how these old laws will carry forward into the future,&#8221; Brehany said Aug. 10 during told the academy&#8217;s annual gathering in New Orleans. . . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebostonpilot.com\/article.asp?ID=16312\" target=\"_blank\">[Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Pilot Peter Finney Jr. NEW ORLEANS (CNS) &#8212; Fine print contained in the Affordable Care Act has weakened conscience protections for physicians who oppose abortion, sterilization or other medical practices on religious or moral grounds, a doctor and ethicist told the American Academy of Fertility Care Professionals. 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