Rachel Maddow Celebrates Overturning of Bush's HHS Conscience Regulation

One of George Bush's worst midnight regulations issued just before he left office was the Department of Health and Human Services regulation that effectively defined contraception as abortion.

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[CIDaily]

The rule was all about abortion. Everyone knows this.

Should a doctor be forced to perform an abortion even if they think that sucking limbs off of a small fetus is murder?

Fair question that Maddow fails to address.

Should doctors not be allowed to abstain from performing assisted suicide? That is what Maddow and Obama area arguing for.

[RHRealityCheck]

Before the rule was put into place doctors had, and have had for quite some time, the right to refuse to perform abortions on the basis on contentious objection. They were only required to refer the patient to a doctor who would perform and abortion if the woman so chose.

The Bush midnight regulation greatly expanded this rule to allow any medical provider, nurses, even receptionists to refuse service to a woman seeking abortion, or even contraception on the basis on contentious objection.

[RHRealityCheck]

Therefore, it is not accurate to say that Obama and Maddow are advocating getting rid of the ability for doctors to refuse to provide abortions, sorry. They are advocating a return to the much more sensible policy pre-Bush regulation.

[dseanmat]

@CIDaily I once saw a bumper sticker which read: "Don't like abortion? Then don't have one." Obviously the point (puerile though it was) was that it is perfectly legitimate to recuse oneself from the horror of abortion if one opposes it. Evidently this Maddow thinks we should all be forced to participate in abortions. What an amoral, far-left fringe extremist. Most sensible people on the left certainly do not want Christian hospitals being forced into the abortion racket.

[dseanmat]

@CIDaily You're exactly right. Those (such as this pseudo-journalist) who oppose conscience rights for health care workers who do not want to partake in evil have forfeited any right to the pretense of being "pro-choice." They are pro-abortion. They do not want health care workers to have a "choice," do they? Many of them even want pro-life Americans to actually pay for other people's abortions. That's hardly "pro-choice," either. Whatever happened to our "choice"?

[YourHumanRights]

Dr. Mengele would be very proud of killing lobby apologists like this nut.

The Declaration of Geneva:

"I will maintain the utmost respect for human life, from the time of its conception; even under threat, I will not use my medical knowledge contrary to the laws of humanity; I will practice my profession with conscience and dignity

Birth defects and breast cancer have a very good friend in Ms. Maddow.

[HeyNonyNonymous]

Your question was answered: Before this rule doctors had the right to refuse to perform abortion. Period. Not only does it answers your question, it makes it irrelevant

[HeyNonyNonymous]

To perform abortion a doctor must be a. a surgeon and b. a gynecologist. It's two very long internships that a doctor may choose not to take. Amish bus driver, eh? In any case. a healthcare employee MUST provide the patient with all information regarding the possibilities he has in modern medicine. Not to do so is immoral and breaks the doctor's oath.

[CIDaily]

You didn't answer my question, Should doctors not be allowed to abstain from performing assisted suicide?

Should nurses be required to assist in abortion procedures?

Some of these assisting tasks commonly include counting the removed parts such as legs, arms, head, etc so that no parts of the fetus are left inside the woman.