Christian Medical Association: President's contraception decision fits pattern of contempt for conscience
Dr. David Stevens:
"The President's so-called religious accommodation today shows that he
either has no comprehension of what conscience convictions mean or that he
cynically chooses to disregard conscience and play a political game."
Washington, DC--February 10, 2012--The nation's largest
faith-based doctors' association, the 16,000-member Christian Medical
Association (www.cmda.org), issued a statement today protesting President
Obama's decision to continue to require all insurance plans nationwide to pay
for sterilizations and contraceptive pills that can end the life of a
developing human being.
CMA CEO Dr. David Stevens asserted, "The President's so-called
'religious accommodation' today shows that he either has no comprehension of
what conscience convictions mean or that he cynically chooses to disregard
conscience and play a political game. We learned from his executive order on
abortion in health care reform that verbal engineering cannot cover up a
contempt for conscience.
"Those of us who have a conscientious conviction that
contraceptive pills that can end the life of a developing human being are
morally impermissible not only deplore paying for them directly; we also
deplore the government forcing insurance companies or anyone else to pay for
them. And we in faith-based organizations certainly have no intention of
instructing employees how to obtain morally objectionable pills, as is required
by Hawaii's policy--after which the President's 'accommodation' is reportedly
patterned.
"No one--whether an individual citizen, a faith-based
organization or an insurance company--should be forced by the federal
government to participate in any way
in the provision of pills that can end the life of a developing human being.
That is simply contrary to American principles of freedom of conscience, and it
shows the contempt for conscience inherent in radical abortion ideology.
"As Dr. Martin Luther King reminds us, 'Injustice
anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.'
"As physicians who uphold life-honoring standards such
as the Hippocratic oath, we recognize that it is morally or ethically wrong to
risk ending the life of a developing human being by using pills such as ella
and the morning-after pill. These pills are falsely promoted as ordinary
contraceptives despite clear FDA
label warnings that 'ella may also work by preventing attachment
(implantation) to the uterus' and that the morning-after
pill (Plan B) "may inhibit implantation by altering the endometrium.'"
"In his speech at Notre Dame, President Obama promised a
'sensible' respect for conscience, but in practice the President has
demonstrated a pattern of contempt for conscience. The President has gutted the only federal
regulation protecting the exercise of conscience in health care, denied of federal grant
funds for aiding human trafficking victims because a faith-based
organization refused to participate in abortion, lobbied the Supreme Court
to restrict faith-based
organizations' hiring rights and issued a coercive contraceptive
mandate that imposes the government's abortion ideology on every
American.
Action
"Every American, regardless of political persuasion,
should be protesting these assaults on our freedoms and contacting legislators
to enact conscience-protecting legislation such as Amendment #1520 to S. 1813,
the Surface Transportation bill. This amendment includes the text of the
Respect for Rights of Conscience Act, introduced in the House by Jeff
Fortenberry (R-Neb. 1st) and in the Senate by Roy
Blunt (R-Mo.)."
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Someone is pulling the woll over someone's eyes here... Read on:
SEC. 1520. REQUIREMENTS FOR ELIGIBLE BRIDGE PROJECTS.
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
(4) STATE CONSULTATION.—In determining
whether to certify a contractor or subcontractor under paragraph (1)(A), a State shall consult with engi- neers and other experts trained in accordance with subsection (a)(2) specializing in corrosion control, mitigation, and prevention methods.
(c) OPTIONAL TRAINING PROGRAM.—As a condition of entering into a contract for an eligible bridge project, each contractor and subcontractor that performs construction, al- teration, or repair work on a bridge or overpass for the eli- gible bridge project may provide, or make available, train- ing, through a qualified training program, for each appli- cable craft or trade classification of employees that the con- tractor or subcontractor intends to employ to carry out as- pects of eligible bridge projects as described in subsection (b)(2).
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