My Daily Domestic Clips 02/21/2011 (a.m.)

• Obama Admin Weakens Protections for Pro-Life Medical Workers | LifeNews.com It’s a bad time to be a pro-life pharmacist! tags: obama abortion contraception areyousorryyet?
  • The long-awaited decision by President Barack Obama to overturn conscience protections the Bush administration put in place to protect pro-life medical workers who don’t want to be involved in certain medical procedures has finally occurred
  • In 2008, the Bush administration issued a rule that prohibited recipients of federal money from discriminating against doctors, nurses and health care aides who refuse to take part in medical procedures to which they have religious or moral objections. The rule implemented existing conscience protection laws that ensure medical professionals cannot be denied employment because they do not want to assist in abortions.
  • At the end of February 2009, the Obama administration announced it began “reviewing” the regulations implementing conscience laws, the first step toward rescinding the rule.Today, the administration rescinded part of the protections today with the Health and Human Services Department scrapping a portion of the rule, which it called “unclear and potentially overbroad in scope.” Obama officials put a new rule in place that leaves in place protections on abortion but offers no protection for medical workers who have moral or religious objections to dispensing or giving to women the Plan B drug or other emergency contraception that could act in some cases as an abortion drug.
• Rolling Stone Hid More Extensive Justin Bieber Pro-Life View | LifeNews.com Liking that Beiber kid more and more! tags: currentevents
  • Now, the magazine has issued another update of the quote — one that makes it clear Bieber believes the unborn child is a human being.“I really don’t believe in abortion. I think it [an embryo] is a human. It’s like killing a baby,” Bieber actually said, with the magazine adding “an embryo for context when Beiber was apparently referring to an unborn baby through pregnancy.

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