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One of them, at least, is to strengthen the laws protecting pro-life health care workers from having to participate in abortions. Obama has promised Planned Parenthood that one of his first acts will be the FOCA, which will require Catholic hospitals to provide abortions or close operations. This in turn will mean hundreds, if not thousands, of communities will lose their only hospitals.
The Freedom of Choice Act that Obama is promising has everything to do with denying medical providers any freedom of choice at all- it's about:
forcing hospitals and clinics who offer OB/GYN services and accept Medicare and other federal funding to provide abortions. The Freedom of Choice Act completely federalizes the issue of abortion, making Congress the sole arbiter of restrictions — which FOCA explicitly repeals entirely. It also repeats the canard that abortion isn’t available in 87% of the country (despite which 22% of all pregnancies in the US end in abortion) and that FOCA intends to rectify that. How? The only option available would be a requirement that all OB/GYN clinics and hospitals provide abortions on request.The Catholic Church runs almost a thousand health care facilities and treated over 90 million patients in 2007. They have already said that passage of FOCA would likely force them to close down most or all of these facilities in order to avoid being forced to provide abortions. The Bush rules attempt to prevent that from happening. The incoming Obama administration will be forced to repeal them before imposing FOCA, a not insurmountable obstacle but one which will make their intention to force OB/GYN providers to become abortionists plain.
Obama's 'freedom of choice' act is the equivilant of the fugitive slave act. When I am pregnant, I choose not to see a doctor who performs abortions. I want a doctor who believes my baby is a human being whose life is worth saving, not one in the morally ambiguous position of killing some babies for convenience and letter others live if the mother wants them to. Obama's Freedom of Choice Act would deny women like me the right to choose health care from doctors they trust and who share their commitment to life.
Good for Bush.
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I pray these reinforcements will be truly effective and long lasting.
Can you explain to me how the Freedom of Choice Act would make health care providers perform abortions, even if it's against their religious beliefs? Because I read the text of the act, and I just didn't see how it would do that. Of course, I am very ignorant when it comes to law. Thus why I am asking.
From reading the law I can sort of see how hospitals would lose their federal funding, and I also see how that could lead to Catholic and other religious hospitals being shut down for lack of funding. But a Christian doctor who works at a hospital with no religious affiliation, how would this particular law force them into performing abortions?
And good for Bush. The more laws there are protecting babies the better. Although one would think that the first amendment would be enough protection for doctors with a conscience....
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