MEDICAL CONSCIENCE LAWS

Medical Conscience Laws in the U.S

Medical Conscience Laws in the U.S

Introduction

Medical conscience laws allow medical professionals to refuse to provide services for which they have religious or moral objections. These laws are usually designed to resolve the conflict between religious health care, providing assistance in accordance with their religious beliefs, and patients who want access to medical care, that these religious providers find objectionable. While the laws of conscience clause grew to encompass the protection of persons who oppose a broad range of medical services and procedures, such as the provision of contraception or termination of life support, the original focus of the laws of conscience clause permitting health care providers to refuse to participate in abortion or sterilization on religious or moral reasons. This section details how history and current status of conscience proposed laws on abortion.

Discussion And Analysis

I have carefully studied law and politics of abortion in the United States for thirty years and have seen the transformation. Initially, supporters of abortion permissive argued that they simply wanted to give women the private choice to choose an abortion. They argued that they do not intend to force anyone to do anything but just trying to repeal laws that prohibit one option - abortion - that they believe should be available to pregnant women.

However, after what has been accomplished by court order, it was not long before they demanded that public funds are available, that public hospitals should be forced to provide services that they so want to believe. In some cases, they have repeatedly tried to get the Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution to repeal laws that restrict public funding and provision of abortion services in public hospitals. Fortunately, the U.S. Supreme Court turned them down each time. Unfortunately, some state courts were not so true, and accepted the demands of these fanatics, "that state constitutions be interpreted in a judicial mandate public funding of abortions.

Then they tried to stop people who wish to exercise their right to peaceful assembly in opposition to abortion and to punish those who tried to offer a free, peaceful "sidewalk counseling" for pregnant women to inform them about alternatives to abortion. Although the Supreme Court invalidated many (but not all) of these laws and decrees, the effort to suppress free speech of abortion continues, ironically resulted in the same organizations that defend the "right choice".

A few years ago, they tried to enact rules for accreditation of medical schools and hospitals to get medical students and junior doctors to be trained to perform abortions. Congress to step forward and adopt a law to prevent this abuse and to protect the rights of conscience of medical students, doctors and hospitals.

Have recently been several attempts to make hospitals, health groups and other organizations to provide assistance, or a rabbit or abortion may be denied a license, authorization or opportunity to participate in the health service. In addition, attempts were made to the authority of health insurers and private employers provide coverage and payment ...