{"id":8602,"date":"2018-02-26T19:33:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T03:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=8602"},"modified":"2018-07-09T20:42:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T03:42:31","slug":"8602","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=8602","title":{"rendered":"Medical professionals divided on bill allowing them to refuse to perform abortions, other procedures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>New Hampshire Union Leader<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Dave Solomon<\/p>\n<p>CONCORD\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 The national debate over the rights of health care workers to refuse to perform procedures like abortion or assisted suicide is working its way through the New Hampshire State House as lawmakers consider &#8220;an act relative to the rights of conscience for medical professionals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The medical community is divided over the bill, which would allow medical professionals to refuse any procedure that goes against their personal beliefs, including abortion, providing contraceptives or contraceptive counseling.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors at a public hearing last week testified for and against the bill (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/law\/proposed\/usa-new-hampshire-006.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HB 1787<\/a>), which would also cover physician&#8217;s assistants, nurses, pharmacists, medical students \u2026 basically anyone and everyone who works in the health care profession. The lengthy definition of &#8220;health care provider&#8221; in the bill includes &#8220;hospital or clinic employees.&#8221; . . . <strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionleader.com\/state-government\/medical-professionals-divided-on-bill-allowing-them-to-refuse-to-perform-abortions-other-procedures-20180226\">Full Text<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Hampshire Union Leader Dave Solomon CONCORD\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 The national debate over the rights of health care workers to refuse to perform procedures like abortion or assisted suicide is working its way through the New Hampshire State House as lawmakers consider &#8220;an act relative to the rights of conscience for medical professionals.&#8221; The medical community &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=8602\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Medical professionals divided on bill allowing them to refuse to perform abortions, other procedures&#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":[46,650,9,760,334,28],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-8602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-contraception","category-news","category-proposed-laws","category-sterilization","category-usa"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Medical professionals divided on bill allowing them to refuse to perform abortions, other procedures - 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