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Forcing Nurses to Participate in Abortions
In Wisconsin, it was the first right-to-law passed after the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision — conscience rights. Our Wisconsin law, and subsequent federal law, protects medical professionals and facilities who do not want to participate in or provide abortions. Now, conscience rights are under siege as pro-abortion groups work to make abortion “mainstream” and force the participation of medical personnel.
Conscience rights are under fire within the Obama administration, with mandates to force Catholic entities to provide contraceptives and sterilization. This blog reported last week on the Catholic Church losing a major grant from the Obama administration to assist victims of sex trafficking because the Church refuses to do abortion referrals.
Now, a nurse, Lorna Jose Mendoza, who works in a New Jersey hospital, is suing the hospital because it wants to force her to participate in abortions. The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) filed on behalf of Mendoza and 12 nurses who have encountered threats to their jobs because of a policy change which requires them to participate in abortions even if they have religious or moral objections.
ADF attorney Matt Bowman said the policy change came “out of the blue.” Bowman told Fox News that the hospital has been performing abortions for decades but did not previously require that nurses participate. In October, according to ADF, the hospital imposed the new policy on nurses “and repeatedly threatened that they must assist abortions or be terminated.”
“When one nurse objected to assisting abortions on the grounds of her religious beliefs, a supervisor responded that UMDNG has ‘no regard for religious beliefs’ of nurses who object to participating in abortions.”
A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order against the hospital, prohibiting it from forcing the 12 nurses to participate in training to do abortions and actually participating in performing them.
It is not enough that abortions are performed for virtually any reason at any stage of pregnancy. Now pro-abortion groups want to force us to participate.
Barbara Lyons
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It’s never enough. The pro-aborts are never satisfied with what they have. They always want more. If they get rid of conscience rights and crisis pregnancy centers, they will want all Obama care to only pay for pre-natal care for people who don’t have crisis pregnancies (and they will decide what is a crisis pregnancy, not the prenant woman). Then they’ll want to censor all pro-life speech and expression as hate speech. Once they get that they’ll want any reference to a fetus as a baby, child, or human to be prosecuted as hate speech. Then they’ll demand that anyone who calls a pregnant woman a mother be prosecuted for hate speech against women, unless the pregnant woman already has other children. Then women whose prenatal test come back less than perfect will be forced to abort (whether they want to or not).
The more these people get, the more they want. They’re never satisfied.
Comment by Ceecee — November 7, 2011 @ 11:26 pm