Court gives legal victory to abortion foes

[IChing]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court handed a legal victory on Friday to medical groups working on behalf of health-care providers who refuse to offer abortion services.

The decision by a three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals allows private groups of health care providers to partner with the U.S. federal government to defend the federal Weldon Amendment from a lawsuit brought against it by California Attorney General Bill Lockyer.

The Weldon Amendment, which Lockyer says is unconstitutional, prevents federal, state and local governments from receiving federal funds if they discriminate against health-care providers that refuse to offer abortion services.

The court's decision allows the Alliance for Catholic Health Care and the Medical Groups, which represents health organizations opposed to abortion under nearly all circumstances, to work with the Bush administration to defend the rights of health-care providers opposed to abortion.


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Damn Activist Judges

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-06-09T234427Z_01_N09188252_RTRUKOC_0_US-COURT-ABORTION.xml&src=rss

[HockeyMom]

1. and Contraceptives, and Sterilization

[Thickasabrick]

2. I'm not sure I understand the implications of this.....but I'm going

to assume it's bad.

[IChing]

3. The implications of religious beliefs influencing your health care

are self explanatory.
The rights and health of woman, first and foremost on the legality and necessity of an abortion dictated by financially and religious health controllers stops even a doctor to determine if the the abortion is in the best health interest of the the woman, let alone in the woman's conscious and needs.

I don't really need a heart transplant, or heart medicine because I'm a bleeding heart liberal which is not in the best interest of my health provider. I know that is over the top in the metaphor but where does it stop?

[Zhade]

4. KICK

KICK

[Cerridwen]

5. So, if I'm reading this correctly

these doctors and hospitals may now, legally, allow women to die? In my experience, emergency abortions are performed when the life of the woman is at stake, for example, ectopic pregnancy.

Have I read this right?

doctors who have moral qualms about performing abortions from being put to the hard choice of acting in conformity with their beliefs, or risking imprisonment or loss of professional livelihood,...

So, in other words, the doctors' legal risks and professional livelihood trumps women's lives?

Well, I feel much better now. Ah yes, I'm no longer a 2nd class citizen, I'm now a 3rd class citizen somewhere behind a zygote/fetus.



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