[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: Time running out for HHS regs comment for pro-life health professionals

Tue Sep 23 14:08:22 MDT 2008

*PharmFacts E-News Update -- 23 Sept 2008 AD

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*ACTION ALERT*

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*
23 September 2008
CONTACT: Katie Walker
540.659.4942| kwalker at all.org <mailto:kwalker at all.org> 

*MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD! TIME RUNNING OUT FOR PRO-LIFE MEDICAL WORKERS*

*Washington, D.C. (23 September 2008)* -- You have only two more days to 
make your voice heard and help defend freedom of conscience for pro-life 
medical workers!

The public comment period of the Department of Health and Human Services 
regulation protecting pro-life medical workers from discrimination will 
end Sep. 25. Pro-abortion advocates are clamoring to stop the regulation 
and have flooded the DHHS Web site with hundreds of messages. They have 
already succeeded in lobbying DHHS Secretary Mike Leavitt to remove 
language that defined abortion to include the birth control pill.

Pro-aborts want this regulation to fail. They want to force pro-life 
medical workers to participate in medical and surgical abortions. DHHS 
has already submitted to their demands.

"Please help the brave medical workers who stand up for the life of the 
preborn by writing and demanding the DHHS protect medical workers from 
all forced participation in abortions of any kind -- medical, surgical 
or chemical," said Judie Brown, president of American Life League. "Tell 
Mike Leavitt not to submit to pro-death demands -- to return to the 
original language of the regulation and protect health care workers from 
all discriminatory policies."

The HHS proposal "Ensuring that Department of Health and Human Services 
Funds Do Not Support Coercive or Discriminatory Policies or Practices in 
Violation of Federal Law" was released August 21 and would enforce 
nation-wide protection and anti-discrimination regulations for pro-life 
pharmacists and medical workers.

According to HHS, the regulation would:

    * "Clarify that non-discrimination protections apply to 
institutional health care providers as well as to individual employees 
working for recipients of certain funds from HHS;
    * "Require recipients of certain HHS funds to certify their 
compliance with laws protecting provider conscience rights;
    * "Designate the HHS Office for Civil Rights as the entity to 
receive complaints of discrimination addressed by the existing statutes 
and the proposed regulation; and
    * "Charge HHS officials to work with any state or local government 
or entity that may be in violation of existing statutes and the proposed 
regulation to encourage voluntary steps to bring that government or 
entity into compliance with the law. If, despite the Department's 
efforts, compliance is not achieved, HHS officials will consider all 
legal options, including termination of funding and the return of funds 
paid out in violation of the nondiscrimination provisions."

Please! Hurry and submit your comments at 
http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocketDetail&d=HHS-OS-2008-0011 
<http://nvs.all.org/sendstudio/link.php?M=30893&N=486&L=2262&F=H>

"Don't let the pro-death lobbyists stamp this important legislation with 
their despicable agendas, and by so doing kill one of the most basic 
American freedoms. Our pro-life doctors and nurses and pharmacists 
deserve freedom of conscience!"

*CONTACT:*

*The Department of Health and Human Services:*
http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocketDetail&d=HHS-OS-2008-0011 
<http://nvs.all.org/sendstudio/link.php?M=30893&N=486&L=2262&F=H>

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

*Medical News Today:* Clinton, Richards Opinion Piece Says HHS Proposal 
Lacks Protection For Patients (22 September 2008)
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/122271.php 
<http://nvs.all.org/sendstudio/link.php?M=30893&N=486&L=2263&F=H>**

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