{"id":6697,"date":"2016-04-01T20:18:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T03:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6697"},"modified":"2018-03-06T13:37:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T21:37:45","slug":"cardinal-dolan-and-archbishop-lori-to-congress-support-the-conscience-protection-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6697","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal Dolan and Archbishop Lori to Congress: Support the Conscience Protection Act"},"content":{"rendered":"

News Release<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

US Conference of Catholic Bishops<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON\u2014Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan and \u2013 as chairmen of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities and Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty, respectively \u2013 wrote to the U.S. House of Representatives, March 31, urging support for the Conscience Protection Act of 2016 (HR 4828).<\/a><\/p>\n

The Conscience Protection Act, they wrote, is “essential legislation protecting the fundamental rights of health care providers\u2026to ensure that those providing much-needed health care and health coverage can continue to do so without being forced by government to help destroy innocent unborn children.”<\/p>\n

HR 4828 has a “modest scope,” they noted. “While existing federal laws already protect conscientious objection to abortion in theory, this protection has not proved effective in practice\u2026 The Conscience Protection Act will address the deficiencies that block effective enforcement of existing laws, most notably by establishing a private right of action allowing victims of discrimination to defend their own rights in court.”<\/p>\n

Cardinal Dolan and Archbishop Lori recalled the Hippocratic oath’s rejection of abortion in the profession of medicine, indicating that the Act will benefit not only Catholic medical professionals but “the great majority of ob\/gyns [who] remain unwilling to perform abortions.”<\/p>\n

Finally, they explained that conscience protection facilitates access to life-affirming health care: “When government\u2026mandates involvement in abortion as a condition for being allowed to provide life-affirming health care services, it not only undermines the widely acknowledged civil rights of health care providers but also limits access to good health care for American women and men.”<\/p>\n

The full text of their letter is posted at:
\nwww.usccb.org\/issues-and-action\/religious-liberty\/conscience-protection\/upload\/Conscience-Protection-Act-Dolan-Lori-Ltr-to-Congress-03-31-16.pdf
\n<\/span><\/u><\/a>
\nFor more on the bishops’ promotion of conscience rights, including a recent video about a nurse who was coerced to take part in a late-term abortion, visit:
\nwww.usccb.org\/issues-and-action\/religious-liberty\/conscience-protection<\/span><\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

MEDIA CONTACT
\nDon Clemmer<\/span><\/u><\/a>
\nO: 202-541-3206<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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