{"id":241267,"date":"2021-03-05T07:40:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T13:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=241267"},"modified":"2021-03-08T11:50:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T17:50:46","slug":"pro-life-healthcare-jobs-equality-act-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-healthcare-jobs-equality-act-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Health professionals have lost jobs for their pro-life beliefs. The Equality Act will make it worse."},"content":{"rendered":"
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“I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy. In purity and holiness I will guard my life and my art.\u201d This is part of the original<\/span> Hippocratic Oath<\/span><\/a>, which all physicians were once required to take. But those days are long gone. Today, health care workers who attempt to practice Hippocratic, pro-life ethics are openly discriminated against, and if the<\/span> Equality Act<\/span><\/a> becomes law, the situation will only get worse.<\/span><\/p>\n

Conscience protections chipped away over time<\/strong><\/p>\n

Efforts to erode conscience protections for health care workers in the United States have been in the works for some time. Back in 2005, former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich<\/span> ordered<\/span><\/a> pharmacists to fill all prescriptions \u2014 including those for potentially abortifacient contraception and emergency contraception \u2014 regardless of their moral objections. Washington Governor Christine Gregoire issued a<\/span> similar order<\/span><\/a> in 2006, which was litigated all the way to the<\/span> Supreme Court<\/a>\u00a0which<\/span>\u00a0refused to hear the case and allowed a lower court\u2019s ruling in favor of the law to stand. And<\/span> as of 2019<\/span><\/a>, 13 states limited the rights of doctors to refuse to perform an abortion \u201cin emergencies\u201d (even though deliberately killing a preborn human being is<\/span> never medically necessary<\/span><\/a>), and three other states require doctors to refer women to abortionists if they refuse to do the job themselves.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is just the tip of the iceberg. <\/span>In<\/span> 2018<\/span><\/a>, the Department of Health and Human Services received over 1,300 complaints of on-the-job conscience violations from health care workers. And an<\/span> informal survey<\/span><\/a> conducted by the Christian Medical Association found that over 41% of its members had been \u201cpressured to compromise Biblical or ethical convictions.\u201d<\/span> Freedom2care.org<\/span><\/a> maintains a<\/span> log<\/span><\/a> of conscience violations in the health care field. Its website has a disturbing number of personal accounts of on-the-job persecution for pro-life convictions, up to and including termination.<\/span><\/p>\n

TAKE ACTION: Click here to urge your Senators to vote AGAINST the Equality Act!<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n