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Feds Move To Protect Health Workers Who Oppose Abortion

Posted on August 22, 2008

The Bush Administration took out the most controversial language in a proposed new rule protecting health care workers who refuse to perform abortions. But the rule remains ambiguous enough to prompt more debate over whether providers can refuse to provide some forms of birth control.The proposed rule (online here) requires hospitals, clinics and other entities that receive federal funds to certify in writing that they are adhering to laws that allow health-care workers to refuse to perform abortions, the Associated Press reports.A draft of the rule, which surfaced last month, had a broad, exp...

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