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The conscience clause is widely invoked in Catholic universities, hospitals, and agencies because the Catholic Church opposes abortion, contraceptives, sterilization, and embryonic stem cell treatments. Opponents of related FOCA legislation have interpreted the possible end of the conscience clause as a demand to either "do abortions or close."
Medical conscience bill would allow discrimination and hurt quality of care. Gannett. Aastha Chandra. February 14, 2024 at 6:22 AM.
The organization opposes conscience-clause legislation, seeing it as an "intrusion of state legislatures into the education and training of mental health professionals". [ 28 ] The American Academy of Pediatrics supported repeal of Tennessee's faith-healing law allowing parents to seek "treatment by spiritual means through prayer alone" for ...
Opponents, however, assert that conscience clauses are weak and easily reinterpreted, and do not explicitly allow religious hospitals to ban the abortion procedure within the hospital. [ 21 ] The election of Barack Obama , an advocate of the Freedom of Choice Act, to the presidency caused pro-life organizations to organize against the bill in ...
A year later, Ayotte and 22 others signed onto the so-called Blunt Amendment to expand a rights-of-conscience clause in the ACA. ... Morse co-sponsored an equal access to fertility care bill (SB ...
A similar bill in Georgia stalled in Spring 2015, with constituents expressing concern to Georgia lawmakers about the financial impacts of such a bill. [126] [127] [128] Supporters of the bill stated that the bill would be "gutted" by the inclusion of anti-discrimination clause. [129]
The Dissenters were not satisfied with Forster's "conscience clause" as contained in the bill, and they regarded him, the ex-Quaker, as a deserter from their own side. They resented the "25th clause", permitting school boards to pay the fees of needy children at denominational schools out of the rates, as an insidious attack on their interests.
An Act To Create The "protecting Freedom Of Conscience From Government Discrimination Act"; To Provide Certain Protections Regarding A Sincerely Held Religious Belief Or Moral Conviction For Persons, Religious Organizations And Private Associations; To Define A Discriminatory Action For Purposes Of This Act; To Provide That A Person May Assert A Violation Of This Act As A Claim Against The ...