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.

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[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.