Washington, DC—October 6, 2017: Today the nation's largest
association of Christian health professionals, the 18,000-member Christian Medical
Association (CMA, www.cmda.org) applauded the
administration's actions to restore conscience freedoms in healthcare. The administration
took action concerning the Obamacare contraceptives mandate, insurance premiums
used to pay for abortions, and regarding government respect for religious
freedom.
"We are thankful to see these vital conscience freedoms
restored in healthcare," noted CMA Senior Vice President Gene Rudd, MD,
and Ob-Gyn physician. "For millennia, medical ethics have provided for
conscientious opposition to abortion by physicians who took up the practice of
medicine as a healing art never to be used for the destruction of human life.
And until recently, our government reinforced those ethical principles with
conscience protections. We are heartened to see our government heading back in
the direction of these vital freedoms that protect patients, medicine and
freedom in our country."
Jonathan Imbody, director of Freedom2Care (www.Freedom2Care.org), which is
affiliated with CMA said, "As Americans who have inherited a nation
founded upon freedom of faith, conscience and speech, we can agree that the
government must never force individuals to violate their deepest held beliefs
on vital and extremely controversial issues such as abortion. When our leaders
forget these principles, and take to forcing nuns to participate in matters
they consider wholly immoral, the American people realize that our fundamental
freedoms are in jeopardy. If the government can take away the rights of one
group, then no one is safe from government coercion.
"These actions today by the administration are an
important step back in the direction of freedom and respect for one another,
and we look forward to more actions in the future, including restoration of the
conscience rule for health professionals that President Obama gutted."
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