[Pflienews] HHS Secretary seeks your comments on whether to protect pro-life health professionals

[PFLI PharmAid Center]

Don't forget to mention pharmacists, nurses and all health professionals!

The Secretary of HHS is asking for comments on the right of conscience 
for medical professionals. Intelligent input from good sources is essential.

It's worth your time. Pass this message to the medical professionals you 
know.


 

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*August 12, 2008*

 

	

	

 

	

 

	

 

	

 

	




Dear Friends,

Mike Leavitt, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services 
(HHS), wrote an excellent blog on why HHS is considering regulations to 
enforce laws protecting the right of health professionals not to 
participate in abortions. Abortion advocates are flooding his blog with 
negative comments opposing the regulations. They don't believe pro-life 
doctors should have the right to choose not to do abortions.

If we don't stand up for pro-life health providers, it could lead to 
them being forced to either participate in or refer for abortions, 
physician-assisted suicide, or other controversial practices - or simply 
to leave the profession altogether.

As patients, we could lose the ability to choose pro-life health 
professionals. Imagine having to get pre-natal care from a doctor who 
just moments before killed another woman's baby.

*Should doctors, nurses and pharmacists be forced to participate in 
abortions? Abortion groups think so. And if they have their way, you 
could lose the ability to choose a pro-life doctor.*

Sec. Leavitt has invited our comments. The Department needs our backing 
to prove that pro-life professionals should have the right to choose not 
to participate in abortions or other controversial actions.

I posted a comment. Now's your chance.

Your blog comment doesn't have to be long.

Pro-abortion groups have twisted the focus on whether some types of 
contraception cause abortion. This is a deliberate misreading of the 
regulations. The regulations simply respect varying viewpoints. They 
allow health providers to rely on sound medical judgment. They focus on 
the right of health professionals to follow their conscience and their 
Hippocratic Oath to "do no harm."

As patients, we depend - with our lives - on health providers to be 
moral and act in what they believe to be the best interest of their 
patients. But if moral professionals with strong consciences are forced 
out of the profession, patients will pay the price.

It will take only a few minutes, but you can make a big difference. 
Click here 
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and scroll to the bottom to add your post.

You can read Sec. Leavitt's response to some of the comments here: 
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To read more about this issue go to: HHS Secretary Addresses Abortion 
Groups' Lies, Seeks to Protect Pro-Life Doctors and Patients 
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No "Right To Choose" for Pro-Life Doctors 
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Let's protect pro-lifers' right to choose.

Sincerely,

Wendy Wright
President

 

 

 

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