[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: Freedom2Care fights back at Obama rolling back Conscience Rights; more....

Mon Mar 16 11:37:14 MDT 2009

*PharmFacts E-News Update -- 16 Mar 2009 AD

**Coalition of Pro-Life Health Professionals launch website to counter 
Recission of HHS Conscience Regulation*

A coalition of pro-life medical organizations just launched this 
website, www.Freedom2Care.org <http://www.Freedom2Care.org> , which 
serves the essential function of letting patients, pharmacists and other 
professionals to submit their comments demanding that the federal 
regulations protecting conscience not be revoked....

The Conscience Regulation, which was finalized on December 18, 2009, 
serves to raise awareness of laws which are already in place to protect 
the conscience of health care providers but it also adds strength to the 
laws in place.  It brings the weight of enforcement, by giving recourse 
to those whose conscience was violated where there did not used to be 
any.  Even though the effects of the conscience regulation have not even 
begun to take their potential effect, the Obama administration is moving 
with aggressive swiftness to rescind it.

On March 10th, the Federal Register went live with its posting of the 
rescission of the conscience regulation - including in it a place for 
people to register their comments.

www.Freedom2Care.org provides a portal whereby you can register your 
comments at HHS, in accordance with the criteria that HHS is collecting. 

Website visitors have the 3 options:  1) A pre-written comment crafted 
for healthcare providers, 2) A pre-written comment for patients and 3) 
The option of writing a personal comment.  It is also collecting stories 
of discrimination so that *Freedom2Care* can have more proof that 
discrimination of conscience is a very real threat.  Additionally, 
visitors have the opportunity to have their comments forwarded to 
lawyers who perform pro-bono work.

Please let me know if you have any questions!

 -Matt Bowman

Matt Bowman  
      Legal Counsel
      (202) 637-4610

      (202) 347-3622  (fax)
      mbowman at telladf.org <mailto:mbowman at telladf.org>
      www.telladf.org <http://www.telladf.org>

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*Putting fear in people who protect lives*

*National Post -- Letter to the Editor *

Re: Hospital Sued For Keeping Infant Alive, March 14.

While I agree that ethics committees should be advisory in nature and 
not decision-makers, the advice to let baby Phebe live (now perceived as 
an imposition by the committee on the parents who themselves sought to 
impose their own morality on the child) was the right one. This is 
evidenced by the bonding and love that the parents now feel for the child.
Had the ethical principle of autonomy been allowed to override the 
principles of beneficence and non-maleficence, the committee would have 
been guilty of a warped ethics. The fact that the parents are now able 
to sue the hospital because they were not allowed to have their child 
die via removal of a feeding tube will undoubtedly put fear into those 
who try to protect life.

Cristina Alarcon, RP, bioethicist, Vancouver, BC

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*Undercover Student Videos Help De-Fund Planned Parenthood in Orange 
County, California*

LOS ANGELES, March 16 /Christian Newswire/ -- Undercover videos produced 
by Live Action Films were used to help strip Planned Parenthood of the 
$292,000 in taxpayer funds it received from Orange County, CA. The 
videos, part of the ongoing Mona Lisa Project, clearly show Planned 
Parenthood employees ignoring the sexual abuse of minors, which 
mandatory reporting laws require clinicians to report.

Mark Bucher, a local resident and board member of the Family Action PAC, 
saw the videos and decided to find out if Orange County gave taxpayer 
dollars to Planned Parenthood. Bucher proceeded to uncover an intricate 
money trail unknown even to the Orange County Board of Supervisors, and 
found that Planned Parenthood received funds through the Orange County 
Health Care Agency but was never identified as the recipient.

"The distribution of public funds to Planned Parenthood through the 
Orange County Health Care Agency appeared to be a deliberate cover-up 
since it was nearly impossible to detect where the money was going from 
the County to several different health clinics," said Bucher. "After 
watching the undercover videos from Live Action, it became clear to me 
that Planned Parenthood has a lot to hide."

Bucher sent one of the undercover videos to every Orange County 
Supervisor, and encouraged them to cut Planned Parenthood's Orange 
County subsidies. This week, the Orange County Board of Supervisors 
unanimously voted to end taxpayer subsidies to Planned Parenthood.

"Regardless of one's position on abortion, Planned Parenthood should not 
receive public funding because of their willingness to deliberately 
cover up sexual molestation and abuse. This 'non-profit' had a $115 
million surplus last year, and certainly doesn't need a bailout from our 
community," continued Bucher.

Lila Rose, president of Live Action, is the UCLA student who went 
undercover in the videos to expose Planned Parenthood. She believes Mark 
Bucher has demonstrated a successful community model to be used across 
the country to end government subsidies to Planned Parenthood clinics.

"The undercover footage from the Mona Lisa Project continues to reveal a 
disturbing pattern in which Planned Parenthood repeatedly covers up the 
sexual abuse of minors," said Rose. "Planned Parenthood needs to be held 
accountable and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for harming 
young girls. It is my hope that others like Mark will investigate 
Parenthood in their local communities, and put a stop to the public 
funding."

"The valuable evidence from Live Action's investigations was crucial to 
de- funding Planned Parenthood in Orange County," concluded Bucher. "I'm 
grateful for the courage shown by Lila Rose and her group to bring to 
light the crimes committed inside Planned Parenthood's clinics."

To view the undercover footage from the Mona Lisa Project, visit 
www.liveaction.org 
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