{"id":7623,"date":"2017-10-06T20:58:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T03:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7623"},"modified":"2018-03-05T21:34:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T05:34:38","slug":"christian-medical-association-and-freedom2care-applaud-administrations-actions-to-protect-conscience-in-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7623","title":{"rendered":"Christian Medical Association and Freedom2Care Applaud Administration’s Actions to Protect Conscience in Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Christian Medical Association <\/a><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6, 2017 — Today the nation’s largest association of Christian health professionals, the 18,000-member Christian Medical Association (CMA, Christian Medical Association www.cmda.org<\/a>) applauded the administration’s actions to restore conscience freedoms in healthcare. The administration took action concerning the Obamacare contraceptives mandate, insurance premiums used to pay for abortions, and regarding government respect for religious freedom.<\/p>\n

“We are thankful to see these vital conscience freedoms restored in healthcare,” noted CMA Senior Vice President Gene Rudd, MD, and Ob-Gyn physician. “For millennia, medical ethics have provided for conscientious opposition to abortion by physicians who took up the practice of medicine as a healing art never to be used for the destruction of human life. And until recently, our government reinforced those ethical principles with conscience protections. We are heartened to see our government heading back in the direction of these vital freedoms that protect patients, medicine and freedom in our country.”<\/p>\n

Jonathan Imbody, director of Freedom2Care (www.Freedom2Care.org<\/a>), which is affiliated with CMA said, “As Americans who have inherited a nation founded upon freedom of faith, conscience and speech, we can agree that the government must never force individuals to violate their deepest held beliefs on vital and extremely controversial issues such as abortion. When our leaders forget these principles, and take to forcing nuns to participate in matters they consider wholly immoral, the American people realize that our fundamental freedoms are in jeopardy. If the government can take away the rights of one group, then no one is safe from government coercion.<\/p>\n

“These actions today by the administration are an important step back in the direction of freedom and respect for one another, and we look forward to more actions in the future, including restoration of the conscience rule for health professionals that President Obama gutted.”<\/p>\n

Contact:<\/strong> Margie Shealy, Christian Medical Association, 423-341-4254<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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