{"id":5754,"date":"2015-02-19T22:47:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T06:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5754"},"modified":"2018-03-06T16:08:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T00:08:07","slug":"american-civil-liberties-union-referral-for-abortion-not-good-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5754","title":{"rendered":"American Civil Liberties Union: referral for abortion not good enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author\">Sean Murphy<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/authors.aspx#Sean_Murphy\" target=\"_blank\">*<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0American\u00a0Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing\u00a0a Washington state public hospital district, claiming that it is failing to provide medical and surgical abortions.\u00a0\u00a0In fact, the hospital district provides both, but refers patients to other facilities for abortion when they cannot be provided in one of the district hospitals because of conscientious objection to the procedure by staff.\u00a0 It thus appears that the ACLU is not content with forcing facilities to refer for abortion, but intends to force them to provide the procedure despite conscientious objection by physicians and health care workers.\u00a0 [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/02\/20\/us-usa-washington-abortion-idUSKBN0LO05820150220\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Murphy* The\u00a0American\u00a0Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing\u00a0a Washington state public hospital district, claiming that it is failing to provide medical and surgical abortions.\u00a0\u00a0In fact, the hospital district provides both, but refers patients to other facilities for abortion when they cannot be provided in one of the district hospitals because of conscientious objection to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5754\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;American Civil Liberties Union: referral for abortion not good enough&#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":[46,217,9,28],"tags":[62,293,360],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-5754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-lawsuits","category-news","category-usa","tag-american-civil-liberties-union-aclu","tag-referral","tag-washington-state"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>American Civil Liberties Union: referral for abortion not good enough - 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