[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: Barrie Hussein 'blatantly refuses' to implement Conscience laws; more...

Sat Mar 7 12:38:52 MST 2009

*PharmFacts E-News Update -- 7 Mar 2009 AD -- Special Weekend Edition

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      *Matt Bowman: Barrie Hussein Obama's newly proposed HHS conscience
      rule blatantly refuses to implement the law*

By Matt Bowman, Esq.
Alliance Defense Fund Legal Counsel

Today the Obama administration published its proposal to completely 
rescind and eliminate the conscience-protecting regulations that the 
Bush administration passed in January. The "proposed rescission" is 
here: Rescission of the Regulation Entitled "Ensuring That Department of 
Health and Human Services Funds Do Not Support Coercive or 
Discriminatory Policies or Practices in Violation of Federal Law"; 
Proposal, 45 CFR Part 88. 
<http://www.federalregister.gov/inspection.aspx#special> (Direct link: 
pdf download of the proposed regs 
<http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/20090306.pdf>)

Contrary to media reports 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/27/AR2009022701104_2.html> 
by anonymous Obama officials, President Obama is not proposing to 
narrowly tailor the regulations or better define them, nor will he leave 
in place regulations to protect doctors from being forced to participate 
in at least some surgical abortions. /He will "rescind in its entirety" 
the current regulation/, leaving no federal regulation at all protecting 
doctors, even from being forced to participate in such things as 
late-term abortion.

As explained here before 
<http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/11/26/matt-bowman-on-conscience-protection-for-health-care-providers-who-threatens-the-status-quo-bush-or-obama/>, 
the current implementing regulation does nothing more than take laws 
that have been on the books for three decades, and actually enforce 
their words so that federal fund recipients cannot illegally 
discriminate against pro-life health care workers. The implementing 
regulations in no way expand those time-honored laws---they simply 
enforce them, so that the will of the American people would actually 
be applied to protect doctors from being forced to participate in 
abortions or face dire consequences.

By his rule issued today, President Obama is utterly refusing to enforce 
these conscience protection laws, resulting in a situation where doctors 
may be forced to participate in abortions and patients may be forced to 
have their babies delivered by doctors who perform abortions. Whatever 
happened to the so called "right to choose"? The Obama administration is 
quite simply collaborating with Planned Parenthood and their allies to 
allow pro-life medical professionals to be punished for their 
beliefs, with the punishment to be funded by your federal dollars.

Americans can object to this attack on religious freedom by sending a 
polite but direct email to proposedrescission at hhs.gov 
<mailto:proposedrescission at hhs.gov> asking that the existing regulations 
be maintained, but they must send their email within the next 30 days.

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Published Friday, March 6, 2009 1:51 PM
Filed under Headlines <http://www.alliancealert.org/category/headlines/> ,
Tagged as Abortion <http://www.alliancealert.org/tag/abortion/>, ADF 
Alliance Alert Commentary 
<http://www.alliancealert.org/tag/adf-alliance-alert-commentary/>, 
Alliance Defense Fund 
<http://www.alliancealert.org/tag/alliance-defense-fund/>, Matt Bowman 
<http://www.alliancealert.org/tag/matt-bowman/>, Religious Freedom 
<http://www.alliancealert.org/tag/religious-freedom/>, Sanctity of Life 
<http://www.alliancealert.org/tag/sanctity-of-life/>, White House 
<http://www.alliancealert.org/tag/white-house/>

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Obama Keeps Abortion - Not Choice - Promises 
<http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://blog.beliefnet.com/lynnvsekulow/2009/03/obama-keeps-abortion---not-cho.html&ct=ga&cd=O7f7AlP7vjg&usg=AFQjCNGGmg5XgorY9rMw6YmfZLX536HjbQ>
Beliefnet.com - New York,NY,USA
I am sure there will be plenty of comments made during this 30-day 
period leading up to Obama's repeal of the *conscience clause* rule. *...*

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*Obama to Sign Executive Order Monday Opening Public Funding of 
Embryonic Stem Cell Research*

By John-Henry Westen

WASHINGTON, March 6, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - President Barack Obama 
plans to rescind the Bush policy limiting federal funding for embryo 
destructive research on Monday. The Bush policy had allowed federal 
funding for experiments on already existing lines of embryos, but 
forbade the funds from being used to create new embryos for 
experimentation. 

According to news reports, a signing ceremony will take place on Monday 
at 11 am.  Details about the Executive Order are not available, but 
according to the Washington Post, "proponents expect Obama will simply 
lift the restriction without caveats and let the NIH work out the details."

Tony Perkins, President of Family Research Council commented on the 
news, saying, "Today's news that President Obama will open the door to 
direct taxpayer funds for embryonic stem cell research that encourages 
the destruction of human embryos is a slap in the face to Americans who 
believe in the dignity of all human life."

Perkins added: "I believe it is unethical to use human life, even young 
embryonic life, to advance science. While such research is unfortunately 
legal, taxpayers should not have to foot the bill for experiments that 
require the destruction of human life."

The Family Research Council leader pointed out that "Obama's policy 
change is especially troubling given the significant adult stem cell 
advances that are being used to treat patients now without harming or 
destroying human embryos." 

He concluded, "Despite the significant advances using adult stem cells 
to treat patients, and new techniques to create stem cells from any 
patient, President Obama will choose to direct taxpayer's money to 
experiments that represent the poorest stem cell science.

Just this week ten pro-life Members of Congress spoke on stem cell 
research during a Special Order organized by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ).  
Smith and the other pro-life Congressman observed that embryonic 
stem-cell research is not only unethical, but unnecessary, given the 
superior results achieved through adult stem cell research.

"Human embryo-destroying stem cell research is not only unethical, 
unworkable and unreliable, it is now demonstrably unnecessary," said 
Smith.  "Adult stem cells ... are truly remarkable. They work, they have 
no ethical baggage, and advances are made every day at a dizzying pace.

But despite so much progress in the adult stem cell field, "the Obama 
administration and the House and Senate Democratic leadership remain 
obsessed with killing human embryos for experimentation at taxpayer 
expense," said Smith.

(Video of the Special Order is available on YouTube here: 
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=03B71601DFA5FFAA)

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