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July 27, 2010

Read these latest Freedom2Care blogs:

• No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act would protect conscience rights
• How the new healthcare law can cause you to lose your physician
• Washington Post reveals conscience rights gaps in healthcare law
• Jack the Quack is Back
• Conscience protection gap in healthcare overhaul law poses threat to poor patients

CMA: Military physicians sign letter to Senate to keep abortion out of military medicine

The Christian Medical Association is inviting active and retired military physicians to sign onto a letter opposing partisan efforts to introduce elective abortions into military medicine. The letter from CMA military physicians urges U.S. Senators to vote NO on the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 (DoD) (S.3280) because it contains a controversial abortion provision--Sen. Roland Burris' amendment to strike Section 1093(b) of Title 10 of the US Code.

Washington Post: "New health-care law raises concerns about respecting providers' consciences"

Deep within the massive health-care overhaul legislation, a few little-noticed provisions have quietly reignited one of the bitterest debates in medicine: how to balance the right of doctors, nurses and other workers to refuse to provide services on moral or religious grounds with the right of patients to get care.

"At the end of the day regarding the legislation, a pro-life health-care professional is left with a weak and limited conscience provision that doesn't even prohibit discrimination by governments and institutions," said Jonathan Imbody, vice president for government relations at the Christian Medical Association. Read full article

Washington Post column: Bringing humanity back to the abortion debate

Can an unborn child feel pain? That question will dominate the abortion debate in America for the next several years thanks to Gov. Dave Heineman of Nebraska. Last week, Heineman signed the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act into law, banning abortions in Nebraska at and after 20 weeks based on growing scientific evidence that an unborn child at that age can feel pain. Read full column

Medical journal: Healthcare bill may trigger "Financial Armageddon"

The New England Journal of Medicine this month features a startling commentary on healthcare reform entitled, "The Specter of Financial Armageddon - Health Care and Federal Debt in the United States." The authors declare at the outset, "The most important force shaping the U.S. health care system over the coming decades may well be the federal debt." Read full commentary

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