"Provider conscience" provisions won't end with Bush presidency

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	"Provider conscience" provisions won't end with Bush presidency

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7-6-2009 4:38 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/31a0231b-869a-4cac-81a4-8a9e08a367d4/5A3E9D38-0B5E-4021-B337-6CD97C59512B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://jezebel.com/5308441/provider-conscience-provisions-wont-end-with-bush-presidency" href="http://jezebel.com/5308441/provider-conscience-provisions-wont-end-with-bush-presidency" style="font-size: 11px;">jezebel.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://jezebel.com/5308441/provider-conscience-provisions-wont-end-with-bush-presidency"><P><IMG width="300" height="200" src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/jezebel/2009/07/plan_b.jpg" />Though Obama is <A href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106139643&ft=1&f=1012">considering a repeal</A> of Bush-era regulations that allow health care providers to refuse to give treatment that conflicts with their beliefs, most states have older laws that still safeguard "<A href="http://jezebel.com/tag/provider-conscience/" title="Click here to read more posts tagged PROVIDER CONSCIENCE" class="autolink">provider conscience</A>."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://jezebel.com/5308441/provider-conscience-provisions-wont-end-with-bush-presidency">Some laws are broad enough to allow doctors to exempt themselves from performing sterilization or in vitro fertilization, or from prescribing emergency contraception. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://jezebel.com/5308441/provider-conscience-provisions-wont-end-with-bush-presidency">there are limits to how much a doctor's beliefs can affect his or her practice.  A Christian scientist physician cannot refuse a cancer patient chemo — is it really reasonable to allow a gynecologist to refuse a woman a legal abortion? What about to refuse IVF? The Pill? The more "<A href="http://jezebel.com/tag/conscience-provisions/" title="Click here to read more posts tagged CONSCIENCE PROVISIONS" class="autolink">conscience provisions</A>" an aspiring ob-gyn needs, the more sensible it seems for him or her to consider a different specialty. The solution is certainly not to maintain several separate sets of laws that allow doctors to deny women care.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5A3E9D38-0B5E-4021-B337-6CD97C59512B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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