{"id":28217,"date":"2013-03-03T13:30:51","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T18:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=28217"},"modified":"2013-03-04T11:12:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T16:12:44","slug":"13-female-congresswomen-join-doctor-in-calling-for-conscience-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/13-female-congresswomen-join-doctor-in-calling-for-conscience-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirteen female congresswomen join doctor in calling for conscience protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><div id=\"attachment_28240\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28240\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28240\" alt=\"diane-black\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/diane-black-300x177.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-28240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Diane Black (R-TN)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thirteen female members of Congress have called on House GOP leadership to protect conscience and religious liberty in legislation to continue funding the government through fiscal year 2013. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sba-list.org\/suzy-b-blog\/13-women-members-congress-demand-conscience-protections-must-pass-legislation\">According to the Susan B. Anthony List<\/a>, Representative Diane Black (R-TN) and Representative and M.D. John Fleming (R-LA) led the letter. The letter was addressed to Representatives John Boehner, Hal Rogers, Eric Cantor, and Jack Kingston.\u00a0 The letter read, in part:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As fellow Members of Congress committed to protecting the individual\u2019s rights of conscience, we are writing to bring to your attention egregious violations of long-standing civil rights and religious freedoms by the current Administration. We respectfully request that you ensure that adequate protections for these fundamental liberties are codified in U.S. law as the Appropriations Committee drafts legislation to fund the federal government through the remainder of the current fiscal year, FY2013.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The letter called for specific steps, including \u201cfull conscience protections consistent with sections 537 and 538 of the House draft FY2013 Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriations bill. Section 537 includes protections regarding insurance coverage as it relates to recent conscience violations being carried out under the authorities granted as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The representatives use the story of Cathy Decarlo as an example of the violations. According to the letter, Decarlo, a\u00a0nurse at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, \u201cwas forced to take part in the gruesome dismemberment of a 22-week-old unborn child.\u201d The examples continue, as the representatives note that \u201cnurses have also been told by Vanderbilt University and by a state-run medical center in New York that they must assist in abortions that violate their deeply-held convictions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can read the full letter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sba-list.org\/sites\/default\/files\/content\/shared\/black-fleming_conscience_protections_in_cr_final.pdf\">here<\/a>\u00a0and also view the list of the thirteen signing representatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should anyone be forced to take part in the dismemberment of a child?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - 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