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Bush Administration Not Acting in Good "Conscience" - Elevating Physician's Right Over Patient Needs
Target: H.H.S. Secretary Michael LeavittSponsored by: National Partnership for Women & Families
With only a few months to go in the Bush administration, the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) is trying to sneak new regulations past the American public that are certain to create roadblocks to reproductive health care – including birth control.
These regulations greatly expand the right of health care providers to refuse care – including services, information and counseling – if they have a moral or religious objection. In doing so, the regulations elevate a provider’s conscience above the health and well-being of patients (learn more).
Urgent: We only have until this Thursday, September 25 – just few days left – to object to this thinly veiled attempt to limit access to reproductive health services. Tell HHS Secretary Leavitt it's time to put public health ahead of the Bush administration's dangerous ideology.
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We signed the “Bush Administration Not Acting in Good "Conscience" - Elevating Physician's Right Over Patient Needs” petition!
# 4,091:
10:58 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Radia Amari, Texas
# 4,090:
10:47 pm PDT, Sep 25,
June Marshall, New Hampshire
# 4,089:
10:20 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Rodney Rice, Colorado
# 4,088:
10:03 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Lizbeth Farias, Florida
# 4,087:
9:52 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Michael Murphy, New Hampshire
It's one more step by religious zealots to regulate someone else's life.
It's one more step by religious zealots to regulate someone else's life.
# 4,086:
9:48 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Litsa Xydis, Illinois
# 4,085:
9:46 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Phyllis Bloom, New York
They were hard fought to gain....these rights prevent women's death, suffering, and control by government and religious institutions, not to mention a patriarchal society.
They were hard fought to gain....these rights prevent women's death, suffering, and control by government and religious institutions, not to mention a patriarchal society.
# 4,084:
9:37 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Beth Mestman, Florida
# 4,083:
9:15 pm PDT, Sep 25,
K. Sommer, Kansas
# 4,082:
9:00 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Roland Marez, Texas
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8:58 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Harrison Heitman, Georgia
# 4,080:
8:58 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Name not displayed, Illinois
# 4,079:
8:56 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Kristina Kokes, Arizona
# 4,078:
8:37 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Name not displayed, Florida
# 4,077:
8:34 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Barbara Owens, Tennessee
# 4,076:
8:28 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Harold Crooks, Indiana
# 4,075:
8:19 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Kristina Bain, Colorado
# 4,074:
8:15 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Dee C., New York
# 4,073:
8:15 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Virginia Maier, Arizona
# 4,072:
8:05 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Brittany Shutts, New York
# 4,071:
7:39 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Barbara Cain, California
# 4,070:
7:34 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Rachelle Bowen, Kansas
# 4,069:
7:31 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Danna Garcia, Texas
# 4,068:
7:09 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Doris A cobb, Illinois
# 4,067:
7:06 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Barb Thompson, California
# 4,066:
6:44 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Margaret Rasor, Virginia
# 4,065:
6:29 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Marion Townsend, Alaska
# 4,064:
6:22 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Samuel Hathorn, Virginia
# 4,063:
6:14 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Andrew Knapp, Wisconsin
# 4,062:
6:03 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Robert Abrams, Kentucky
# 4,061:
5:49 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Peter Fairley, Nevada
# 4,060:
5:48 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Name not displayed, New York
We don't need any more laws regarding contraception or abortion!
We don't need any more laws regarding contraception or abortion!
# 4,059:
5:46 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Janis Dappert, Illinois
# 4,058:
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5:43 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Claire Kimball, North Carolina
I am a nursing student and worked as a community health worker for 3 years with low-income pregnant women. I steadfastly believe patients depend on their health care providers to give them unbiased information about their health care options. If health care providers feel that they are opposed to certain treatments, we are supposed to still give unbiased info, not based upon our personal beliefs and support them in their own decisions. If they can't provide information, then they need to choose a different line of work or health care department where these issues will not come up. |
# 4,057:
5:24 pm PDT, Sep 25,
James Maddox, California
# 4,056:
5:18 pm PDT, Sep 25,
William Ware, California
I believe that these are decisions that should be made by the mother and whatever advisors she chooses for guidance.
I believe that these are decisions that should be made by the mother and whatever advisors she chooses for guidance.
# 4,055:
5:18 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Virginia Snider, New York
Such regulations interfere with a woman's or family's rights to decide the most personal matters concerning family size, risks of pregnancy, etc. These decisions belong exclusively to the women who are affected/ They are not and never should be political decisions!
Such regulations interfere with a woman's or family's rights to decide the most personal matters concerning family size, risks of pregnancy, etc. These decisions belong exclusively to the women who are affected/ They are not and never should be political decisions!
# 4,054:
4:45 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Mignon Washington, California
# 4,053:
4:43 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Name not displayed, Oregon
Because I am a woman and I believe it's no one else's business what I do with it.
Because I am a woman and I believe it's no one else's business what I do with it.
# 4,052:
4:42 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Brian Ratchford, Pennsylvania
# 4,051:
4:33 pm PDT, Sep 25,
Cheri Newman, Illinois
