Just putting this out there...

[singerinthedark]

There's a new medical conscience law coming on the books. While it does seek to protect those in the medical field from taking part in activities they feel are morally objectionable, it is so broad in its scope that it could basically take away a woman's right to choose in rural areas and red states. (The people who clean medical instruments are mentioned in the text of the law... yeah it's that broad.)

The text of the law can be found here.

The journal entry that alerted me to this new law can be found here

Comments

[fools-and-irish.livejournal.com]

Are they talking about a FEDERAL law on this? Damn. More ambitious than I thought.

I *have* to believe that Constitutional precedent on nondiscrimination would force even this slanted Supreme Court to toss out anything like it. If the law lets doctors pick and choose who they get to serve, how is that different from a teacher, say, refusing to educate black students?

[groblek.livejournal.com]

Yep, federal department of health and human services. Officially a "Rule change" by the department The scarier part of this? Much of what they're trying to do here is already enshrined in federal law (cited in the text of the proposed rule), this is just trying to clarify and expand upon some pretty objectionable existing stuff.

[fools-and-irish.livejournal.com]

This puts me in mind of FDR's attempt to expand the Supreme Court to 15 justices. Probably just as well it didn't work, else at this point it'd have reached into the 60s. But one can understand his motivation.