{"id":582,"date":"2008-09-15T16:47:09","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T16:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=582"},"modified":"2013-08-02T19:11:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T19:11:47","slug":"re-sept-8-editorial-leavitt-should-drop-proposed-health-care-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=582","title":{"rendered":"Re: Sept. 8 editorial “Leavitt should drop proposed health care rule.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Letter to the Editor
\nAustin American Statesman<\/em><\/strong>
\n15 September, 2008<\/p>\n

Reproduced with permission<\/em><\/p>\n

Jonathan Imbody*<\/a><\/p>\n

The editorial characterizes as “a back-door way to limit access to contraceptives” a regulation recently proposed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to protect conscience rights in health care.<\/p>\n

The regulation in no way prohibits access to either contraception or abortion. The regulation merely implements 35 years of civil rights laws to protect health care professionals from discrimination merely for adhering to life-affirming medical ethics such as the Hippocratic Oath.<\/p>\n

More than 40 percent of our members \u2014 physicians and medical students \u2014 report that they have experienced pressure to violate standards of medical ethics. Medical students report eschewing careers in obstetrics and gynecology for fear of coercion to do abortions.<\/p>\n

This regulation is urgently needed to prevent forcing these principled professionals out of their careers through discrimination and coercion, which results in less access to health care for women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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