{"id":531,"date":"2012-01-24T18:07:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T02:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=531"},"modified":"2012-01-24T18:07:49","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T02:07:49","slug":"the-obama-administrations-attack-on-roe-v-wade-and-doe-v-bolton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=531","title":{"rendered":"The Obama Administration\u2019s Attack on Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alliance Defence Fund<\/strong><\/a>
\nJanuary 24th, 2012
\nReproduced with permission<\/em><\/p>\n

Casey Mattox<\/p>\n

Thirty-nine years ago the United States Supreme Court recognized that medical professionals, let alone others, have a right not to assist in abortions in violation of their conscience. What\u2019s that? Yes, I do have the date right. I\u2019m talking about Roe v. Wade<\/em> and Doe v. Bolton<\/em>. While those cases held, wrongly, that women and their doctors have a fundamental constitutional right to kill an unborn child, they also recognized as important predicates to those decisions the right NOT to participate in abortion in violation of one\u2019s conscience. Friday\u2019s announcement <\/a>that the Obama Administration would force employers \u2013 including nonprofit religious employers \u2013 to pay for their employees\u2019 contraception and abortifacients is just the latest example of how the abortion industry and its friends in the Obama Administration are attacking these well established rights of conscience in ways even the authors of Roe<\/em> and Doe<\/em> did not envision.<\/p>\n

Even at the time of Roe<\/em><\/a>, some were concerned that legalized abortion would lead to compelled participation in abortion, a concern that was not misplaced as ACLU attorneys were working in Montana to force Catholic hospitals to perform sterilizations. The Supreme Court acknowledged but dismissed that concern, holding only that \u201cthe attending physician<\/em>, in consultation with his patient, is free<\/em> to determine, \u2026 the patient\u2019s pregnancy should be terminated.\u201d The Court cited favorably the resolution of the AMA House of Delegates stating:<\/p>\n

RESOLVED, That no physician or other professional personnel shall be compelled to perform any act which violates his good medical judgment. Neither physician, hospital, nor hospital personnel shall be required to perform any act violative of personally held moral principles. In these circumstances, good medical practice requires only that the physician or other professional personnel withdraw from the case so long as the withdrawal is consistent with good medical practice.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Similarly, in Doe v. Bolton <\/em>while the Supreme Court struck down some parts of a Georgia abortion law, it left standing a provision that allowed any medical professional or hospital to decline to participate in abortions, saying that this provision was an \u201cappropriate protection to the individual and to the denominational hospital.\u201d Thus, in the seminal abortion decisions that President Obama and the abortion industry celebrate this weekend, the same Court acknowledged the right NOT to assist in abortions in violation of conscience.<\/p>\n

To be absolutely sure however, the U.S. Congress passed the Church Amendments, turning back ACLU efforts to treat Catholic hospitals receiving Medicare funds as public hospitals and force them to perform sterilizations (and ultimately abortions), and prohibiting recipients of certain federal funds from requiring medical professionals or any person to participate in abortions, sterilizations, or other procedures in violation of conscience. This was so uncontroversial it passed with only a single vote against in either house \u2013 a vote total unthinkable even for a bill to honor mom and apple pie today. In fact, noted right wing extremist Senator Ted Kennedy spoke in favor of the law on the floor of the Senate, saying that it protected the constitutional right not to participate in abortion and he supported the \u201cfull protection to the religious freedom of physicians and others.\u201d In 1973, as the opinions reflect, there was no doubt that whatever right the penumbral emanations of the constitution gave to women and doctors to participate in abortions, it certainly protected the right not to participate in abortions or other medical procedures that violated one\u2019s conscience.<\/p>\n

It is in the face of this history that the Obama Administration announced on Friday that it will, with only a 1 year reprieve, fine virtually every faith-based ministry in the country that does not pay for contraception and abortifacients (Plan B, Ella, IUD, etc. included). This decision is certainly an affront to religious liberty \u2013perhaps the greatest in our nation\u2019s history. But it is also completely unsupported, indeed rejected by the very cases that the Obama Administration would use to support its cause. Roe<\/em> and Doe<\/em>, as bad as those decisions are, reject the Administration\u2019s claim that a woman\u2019s \u201cright\u201d to contraception and abortifacients justify the federal government compelling Christ-centered ministries to violate their conscience by buying these for them. When you hear abortion industry supporters rely upon those decisions to justify this assault on conscience, don\u2019t believe it. Even Roe <\/em>itself is conservative compared to the radical anti-life advocacy of the present Administration.<\/p>\n

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ADF is a legal alliance of Christian attorneys and like-minded organizations defending the right of people to freely live out their faith. Launched in 1994, ADF employs a unique combination of strategy, training, funding, and litigation<\/a> to protect and preserve religious liberty, the sanctity of life, marriage, and the family.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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