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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The Alliance of Catholic Health Care is asking the Obama Administration to stop efforts to repeal federal conscience clause prot...
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...In the United States today, federal laws immunize healthcare providers who refuse, on moral...These "conscience clauses" cover not just individual providers, but institut...
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...Rev. Stat. Ann. §43-1089on Establishment Clause grounds. The Arizona law gives tax creditsfor con... to an establishment in violation of conscience. In contrast, a tax credit allowsdissenting taxpa... See 1997 Ariz. Sess. Laws §43-1087,codified, as amended, Ariz. Rev. St...
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..., drawing attention to the following: "conscience clause" laws that allow pharmacists to refuse to p...
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A pharmacist turns away a woman seeking birth control pills because he believes contraception is wrong.
An ambulance driver refuses to take a pregnant woman with abdominal pain to the hospital for an emergency abortion.
... discussed the meaning of conscience, the laws surrounding conscience-based refusals, and the bes... to take another look at their conscience clause laws. Some states have enacted laws allowing pharm...
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Act Applies Hyde Amendment to New Funds
Fixing Health Care a Legislative Goal of U.S. Bishops
...PPACA's clause allowing states to require provision of services i... in the Act's non-preemption clause on state laws (sec. 1303(c)(1) of PPACA), so state laws restrict...
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Some pharmacists around the country are refusing to fill prescriptions for birth control and morning-after pills, saying that dispensing the medications violates their personal moral or religious beliefs.
The trend has opened a new front in the nation's battle over reproductive rights, sparking an intense debate over the competing rights of pharmacists to refuse to participate in something they consider repugnant versus a woman's right to get medications her doctor has prescribed. It has triggered pitched political battles in State Houses across the nation as politicians seek to pass laws either to protect pharmacists from being penalized - or force them to carry out their duties.
... one of at least 11 states considering "conscience clause" laws that would protect pharmacists like N...
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Federal law has long forbidden discrimination against health care professionals who refuse to perform abortions or provide referrals for them. The [Bush] administration's rule requires institutions that get federal funding to certify their compliance with laws protecting conscience rights. It was intended to block the flow of federal funds to hospitals and other institutions that ignore the rights of religious and moral objectors.
The administration supports a tightly written conscience clause," said the HHS official. "While we are concerned about the Bush rule, we also understand there might be a need to clarify existing laws.
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...Bush's "conscience clause" for medical workers. President Bush's cons... clause that will not be weaker than the laws in place before President Bush put in his. Preside...
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...2009). We do not consider the Supremacy Clause argument advanced by amicus American Civil Liberti... Cevallos do not Ashock the judicial conscience.@ Substantive due process is a doctrine rese... took it upon themselves to determine which laws are and which are not constitutionally entitled to...