{"id":284265,"date":"2023-01-26T20:30:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T02:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=284265"},"modified":"2023-01-26T17:47:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T23:47:06","slug":"expedite-nursing-license-application-california-commit-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/expedite-nursing-license-application-california-commit-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"You can expedite your nursing license application in California&#8230; if you plan to commit abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A recent nursing school graduate from California was \u201cshocked, horrified, and disgusted\u201d when she applied to take the national licensing exam for registered nurses (NCLEX) and learned that her home state will expedite the application of any healthcare professional willing to assist with or perform abortions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kara* shared in an email to Live Action News: <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you finish the Associate\u2019s Degree in Nursing (ADN), you then sign up with the California Board of Registered Nurses (BRN) to take the test to get your license (the NCLEX). I was horrified when applying for the exam\u2026There\u2019s one way to expedite the process\u2026 one procedure that if you&#8217;re willing to do it and have paperwork about your intentions, the BRN will get you through faster\u2026 if you are willing to perform abortions. There were NO OTHER PROCEDURES they asked about to expedite your license. Not births, not hospice, not cancer treatment. . . just abortions.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kara, whose first career was in teaching, enrolled in nursing school with a desire to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">help<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> others, not harm them. She considered pursuing nursing for some time, but initially thought, \u201cIt would take so much school, and I\u2019m still teaching. I don\u2019t have enough time.\u201d Over a period of several years, she was privileged to be at the bedside of four different family members or friends\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014 including three who had cancer \u2014\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as they died. Witnessing those sacred moments at the end of each person\u2019s life reinforced her belief that all life is precious, and acknowledging her own desire to care for others at their most vulnerable was the final nudge she needed to apply for nursing school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/walgreens-cvs-petition\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-283198\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--700x180.jpg\" alt=\"Walgreens CVS banner\" width=\"700\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--700x180.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--300x77.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--768x197.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--500x128.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since graduating with her Associate\u2019s Degree in December, she is now enrolled in a Bachelor\u2019s Degree program and is applying for jobs. In California, a bachelor\u2019s degree in nursing is required for employment, but nurses with an associate\u2019s degree can get a job and start working as long as they\u2019re actively enrolled in a baccalaureate program.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Expediting license applications for abortion workers is one aspect of California\u2019s expansion of abortion<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In September of 2022, California\u2019s Governor Gavin Newsom <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2022\/09\/27\/new-protections-for-people-who-need-abortion-care-and-birth-control\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">signed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> AB 657 into law, mandating the BRN to expedite applications for healthcare workers providing abortions, in direct response to both the June <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/dobbs-true-justice-preborn-humans-philosopher\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dobbs<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> decision<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/roe-v-wade-next-pro-life\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">overturning <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roe v. Wade<\/span><\/i><\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and Texas\u2019 passage of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/lozier-scholar-texas-heartbeat-saved-lives\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Texas Heartbeat Act<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Newsom simultaneously <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2022\/09\/27\/new-protections-for-people-who-need-abortion-care-and-birth-control\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">signed a slew<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of other abortion expansion measures, including a bill intended to increase the amount of abortion providers by training midwives and nurse practitioners to perform first-trimester<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abortionprocedures.com\/aspiration\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">suction aspiration (also known as suction D&amp;C) abortions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. At the same time, he also passed a \u201cshield law,\u201d which welcomes healthcare providers who lost their license in other states due to flouting those states\u2019 laws restricting or prohibiting abortion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_284270\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-284270\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-284270\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/CA-medical-board-screenshot-expedition-700x396.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/CA-medical-board-screenshot-expedition-700x396.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/CA-medical-board-screenshot-expedition-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/CA-medical-board-screenshot-expedition-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/CA-medical-board-screenshot-expedition-500x283.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/CA-medical-board-screenshot-expedition.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-284270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Priority Review and Expedited Application\/Registration Process: | MBC showing wording of MD Board prioritizing abortion providers<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Illinois <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/illinois-governor-abortion-endangers-women\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">recently passed<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">its own version of a shield law, and New York\u2019s governor <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/msmagazine.com\/2023\/01\/19\/new-york-shield-law-abortion-pills\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">introduced<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> similar legislation in early January. As noted by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/msmagazine.com\/2023\/01\/19\/new-york-shield-law-abortion-pills\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ms. Magazine<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[New York\u2019s] proposed law would shield clinicians and pharmacists throughout the state from criminal prosecution, extradition, loss of license or malpractice insurance, and from subpoenas of their medical records for prescribing and sending abortion pills to people who need them anywhere in the United States.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In other words, there will be no accountability or professional penalties for flouting other states\u2019 laws by mailing abortion pills to states where they are illegal, or otherwise assisting with or performing abortions illegally.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By way of AB 657 and its other new laws, California is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">encouraging<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and rewarding<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> healthcare providers who break the law in other states. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In any legitimate area of medicine, this government-sanctioned acceptance and even encouragement of malpractice would be unthinkable. Sadly, women who seek abortions in California stand to suffer the most at the hands of unscrupulous healthcare practitioners who fled other states because they believed the law didn\u2019t apply to them. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The passage of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AB 657 was supported by the state\u2019s Board of Registered Nursing (BRN), as indicated <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rn.ca.gov\/pdfs\/meetings\/brd\/brd_nov22_item10.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Nurses aren\u2019t the only ones whose licenses will be expedited for participating in abortions<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nursing school graduates or nurses from other states seeking to take advantage of California\u2019s expedited licensure application process are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.sandiego.edu\/cpil-blog\/2022\/11\/28\/california-board-of-registered-nursing-to-implement-law-expediting-licensure-for-abortion-providers\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">required<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to submit \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a letter demonstrating and declaring their intention to perform abortions, a letter from an employer or health care entity indicating the applicant has accepted employment or entered a contract to provide abortions, the applicant\u2019s starting date, the location where the applicant will provide abortions, and that the applicant is providing abortions within the scope of their license.\u201d But AB 657 doesn\u2019t just impact nurses.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new law further applies to advanced practice nurses (APNs) and nurse practitioners (NPs), who are similarly licensed by the BRN, plus the Medical Board of California, which licenses medical doctors (MDs) as well as surgeons and midwives, the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, which licenses doctors of osteopathy (DOs), and finally the Physician Assistant (PA) Board.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>California prioritizes abortion amidst massive nursing shortage<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">California\u2019s blatant preferential treatment of abortion is particularly egregious considering the massive nursing shortage the state faces. While it is the most populous state in the country, California <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nursejournal.org\/articles\/the-us-nursing-shortage-state-by-state-breakdown\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ranks<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 38th in terms of nurse-to-population ratio, with just 8.2 nurses per population of 1,000. In contrast, Washington, D.C., which ranks first, and South Dakota, which ranks second, have 16.74 and 15.95 nurses per population of 1,000, respectively. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2021, a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/healthworkforce.ucsf.edu\/publication\/impact-covid-19-pandemic-ca-registered-nurse-workforce-preliminary-data\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">report<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucsf.edu\/news\/2021\/09\/421366\/california-faces-short-term-nursing-shortage-covid-19-retirements\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Workforce Research Center<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> estimated that California was operating with 40,567 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fewer<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> nurses than necessary. In addition, 2021 data <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/data.chhs.ca.gov\/dataset\/registered-nurse-shortage-areas-in-california\/resource\/73f4c56c-ba4f-4cb7-bb69-b0727a0f5a50\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">released <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by the California Health and Human Services Agency found that 58 of the 72 studied geographical areas were operating with a nursing shortage, which was characterized as \u2018high\u2019 in 19 areas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The nursing shortage impacts everyone, from ambulatory surgical center patients needing knee or hip replacements to medical-surgical patients recovering from pneumonia, from critically ill patients in intensive care units (ICUs) to cancer patients, from women giving birth on Labor &amp; Delivery units to patients recovering from open heart surgery. Instead of prioritizing the safety of these patients, California has chosen to focus its attention and resources on abortion, which is the purposeful killing of innocent preborn humans, and therefore <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-docs-abortion-healthcare\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">can never constitute health care<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Nurses are taught to \u2018do no harm\u2019<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kara noted that the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nursingworld.org\/practice-policy\/nursing-excellence\/ethics\/code-of-ethics-for-nurses\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nursing code of ethics<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, as set out by the American Nurses Association, requires nurses to abide by four core principles\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014 including nonmaleficence,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">better known as \u201cdo no harm.\u201d She asserted, \u201cAbortion can never be healthcare because in healthcare and as nurses we take an oath to do no harm.\u201d She opined, \u201cAbortion is so contradictory to everything we learn in nursing school,\u201d and insisted that instead of sacrificing the preborn, society and the healthcare system \u201chave to love them both.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*Name changed due to concern of retaliation <\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/give.liveaction.org\/general-donation\/?utm_source=lan&amp;utm_medium=display&amp;utm_campaign=monthly&amp;utm_content=article\"><i>Did you know that as little as $10 a month is enough to reach more than 3,000 moms and dads with the truth about abortion this year? 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