[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: Barrie Hussein, drive bys wrong on Conscience; FOCA would wreck havoc on consent, funding laws, poor would suffer

Sat Nov 29 09:11:51 MST 2008

*PharmFacts E-News Update -- 29 Nov 2008 AD

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http://www.lifenews.com/nat4615.html
*Obama, Media, Abortion Advocates Wrong to Oppose Conscience Protections

*by Matt Bowman

November 28, 2008

/Note: Matt is an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund, a leading 
pro-life legal alliance. ADF has been involved in numerous legal cases 
on pro-life issues ranging from defending pro-life legislation to uphold 
free speech rights to protecting vulnerable patients from euthanasia./

Is President Bush vastly expanding conscience protections for pro-life 
doctors, or is he merely enforcing the law as passed by Congress 
multiple times since Roe v. Wade, but which has not been enforced? And, 
if President-elect Obama revokes those protections, will he be restoring 
a reasonable status quo, or clearing the way to force pro-life people 
out of the health care industry?

The mainstream media's uniform slant on protecting pro-life doctors is 
that the regulations are novel and unprecedented. The New York Times' 
article last week typifies this propaganda, saying that the proposed HHS 
regulations are "sweeping new protections."

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*Freedom of Choice Act would wreak havoc on state consent, 
abortion-funding laws*
Friday, November 28, 2008
BY NAT HENTOFF
NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION

During a July 17, 2007 speech before the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, 
then-Sen. Barack Obama pledged: "The first thing I'd do as president is 
sign the Freedom of Choice Act." That is a bizarre way "to bring us 
together," another goal of his as president.

When Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., reintroduced the FOCA in 2007, she 
triumphantly said this draconian definition of "Freedom of Choice" would 
mean: "Women would have the absolute right to choose whether to continue 
or terminate their pregnancies before fetal viability, and that right 
would be protected by this legislation. The Freedom of Choice Act also 
supersedes any law, regulation or local ordinance that impinges on a 
woman's right to choose."

With regard to "fetal viability" --- the ability to survive on his or 
her own --- ardent supporters of FOCA slide over the language in the 
2007 version of FOCA bill that, as Douglas Johnson of the National Right 
to Life Committee notes: "Contains no objective criteria for 
'viability,' but rather, requires that the judgment regarding 
'viability' be left entirely in the hands of 'the attending physician.' "

Guess who that would be? The abortionist.

Restrictions on "the absolute right to choose" would also apply even 
after "viability" if a woman wanted to abort --- what would undeniably 
be seen during pregnancy as a baby in ultrasound --- for reasons of her 
health.

But the Supreme Court in 1973, the same year as Roe v. Wade, in Doe v. 
Bolton defined very broadly "health" as justification for aborting a 
viable human being, as "physical, emotional, psychological, familial and 
the woman's age." Nearly a blank check to dispose of that aborted person.

It's no wonder Obama opposed the Supreme Court decision that eventually 
ruled against the lawfulness of "partial-birth abortion."

The rabidly pro-abortion Freedom of Choice Act that Obama supports, 
unless there is an unlikely successful filibuster in the Democratically 
controlled Senate, would invalidate parental-notification laws; any 
state's requirement of full disclosure of the physical and emotional 
risks inherent in abortion; and --- can you believe this? --- all laws 
prohibiting medical personnel other than licensed physicians from 
performing abortions because such restrictions might "interfere" with 
access to this absolute right to abortion. This is respect for women?

As of now, before our abortion president gets his wish, 26 states have 
informed-consent laws, 36 have parental-involvement laws and 34 states 
restrict abortion funding.

Also disposed of will be the "conscience rights" in many states. They 
include, Johnson says, "all laws allowing doctors, nurses or other 
state-licensed professionals, and hospitals or other health care 
providers, to decline to provide or pay for abortions."

What about religiously based hospitals and clinics that refuse to 
perform abortions?

Can we depend on the press corps to ask Obama about that provision or 
the others I've cited?

Matt Bowman, an attorney with pro-life Alliance Defense Fund, projects 
that if FOCA is passed into law (Lifenews.com, Sept. 24), there will be 
an increase in abortion by 125,000 per year in the United States.

On Jan. 22, 2008 --- the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Obama said: 
"Throughout my career, I've been a consistent and strong supporter of 
reproductive justice and have consistently had a 100 percent pro-choice 
rating with Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America. ...

"To truly honor (Roe v. Wade), we need to update the social contract so 
that women can free themselves and their children from violent 
relationships." What, Mr. President, can be more violent than murder by 
abortion?

Nat Hentoff is a nationally renowned authority on the First Amendment 
and the Bill of Rights.

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