- The left does not really support freedom of conscience, only the forcible substitution of their conscience for yours
- Fight Obama’s support of coercion to engage in abortion (information below)
Alert from the National Right to Life committee and Quad City Right to Life (bold our emphasis)
U.S. House to vote on banning state abortion mandates
On Wednesday, July 13, 2016, or later in the week, the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on the Conscience Protection Act. This legislation is urgently needed to counter a growing number of states that are compelling health care providers and employers to participate in providing abortions.
Two years ago, a state agency in California, the California Department of Managed Care, issued a decree mandating that nearly all health plans in the state must cover all abortions. After two years of inaction, on June 21 the Obama Administration made it clear that it will not enforce a federal law — the Weldon Amendment — that prohibits states from discriminating against health plans and other health care providers that refuse to participate in abortion.
An agency of the state of New York has already adopted an abortion mandate, similar to the California mandate, requiring small group employers to cover all kinds of abortion. And, on the very the same day that the Obama Administration gutted the Weldon Amendment, a court in Washington state ruled that public hospitals must provide abortions if they offer maternity care.
In the face of these outrages, Paul Ryan, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, has announced that the House will vote on the Conscience Protection Act on Wednesday, July 13, or later in the week. This bill would prohibit any level of government from mandating that health care providers participate in abortion. It would protect individual health care providers, such as doctors and nurses, and also entities such as hospitals and health plans (and their clients). Most importantly, it provides for people who are affected by abortion mandates to file private lawsuits in federal courts – so the cooperation of ideologically hostile activists employed by the federal Department of Human Services would no longer be necessary.
Please urge your representative in the U.S. House to support this legislation — because nobody should be forced to participate in the brutal act of abortion.
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Additional reading:
U.S. Catholic bishops urge Congress to protect conscience rights on abortion immediately
