are you fucking kidding me?

[moonwise]

From CNN:

'Conscience clause' grows in health care

A little-noticed provision cleared the House of Representatives last week that would prohibit local, state or federal authorities from requiring any institution or health care professional to provide abortions, pay for them, or make abortion-related referrals, even in cases of rape or medical emergency.

In Mississippi, a bill became law in July that admirers and critics consider the nation's most sweeping "conscience clause." It allows all types of health care workers and facilities to refuse performing virtually any service they object to on moral or religious grounds.

Absolutely unreal. So it's legal in Mississippi to refuse me my BC pills/patch? Thank god I live in the Northeast rather than the Bible Belt, though nowhere is safe from this kind of bullshit.

Comments

[magickgrl.livejournal.com]

Get this, I don't want children. Never had the urge to have one and the way my love life is going, never will. Plus I've had nothing but female related issues all my life. Now when I was covered under my parents insurance in college, I again was having issues. They wanted to try all these meds but I wanted to have the problem solved by just removing the problem. Did they? No, because I was and still am of child bearing years. Instead they wanted me to attend psychiatric evaluations to see why I wanted a hysterectomy. Oh they would allow me one, but only if I was over 30 or something.

I agree the issue of birth control is pathetic. Especially when over aged men tell us how to run our bodies.

[porridge-snood.livejournal.com]

eek that is not happy news! im also glad i dont live in mississippi.

meep or america in general, no offense im sure its a lovely place but we dont see too much flattering stuff on this side of the world...just stuff like this

[irenak.livejournal.com]

::takes out copy of new conscience clause::

Hippocratic. ::whack:: Oath. ::whack:: You. ::whack:: Jackasses! ::whack::

Sigh. This is gonna cause more legal entanglements over the next decade than I want to even contemplate. The Mississippi law especially - it's so vague that I could refuse to perform *any* surgery based on religious/moral grounds. What happens when they get a criminal suspect in an ER that needs treatment? Can I refuse to operate on him on the basis of eye for an eye? Can I say that morally I can't waste my time on someone who broke the law when I have cases for so-called good people? Am I allowed to break doctor/patient privilege as a matter of religious duty?

Jesus wept.

[ladyofthesea.livejournal.com]

This is absolutely insane. This tells me that a sixteen year old girl who was impregnated by a rapist can't get an abortion because someone else finds doing so 'immoral'?? What a fucking crock. I hate how moralistic America has become. Since when has Suzy Q's abortion mattered so much to politicians and the law? Meh.

[fireceremony.livejournal.com]

Makes one wonder why someone becomes a health care worker in the first place, if you only wish to help people whom they regard as morally or religiously worthy (read: agree with your own point of views) of your help...??? I of course agree with you totally that that kind of attitude should not exist within the health care system.