Friday, February 27, 2009

Pro-Life MD's, RN's in the 10-Ring

No surprise here.

The Obama administration has begun the process of rescinding sweeping new federal protections that were granted in December to health-care workers who refuse to provide care that violates their personal, moral or religious beliefs.

The Office of Management and Budget announced this morning that it was reviewing a proposal to lift the controversial "conscience" regulation, the first step toward reversing the policy
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That's "Kill or Be Killed" if you want the translation.

HT Ignatius

3 comments:

Billiam said...

And they wonder why they are called the 'Party of Death".

Anonymous said...

No trial provides a better basis for understanding the nature and causes of evil than do the Nuremberg trials from 1945 to 1949. Those who come to the trials expecting to find sadistic monsters are generally disappointed. What is shocking about Nuremberg is the ordinariness of the defendants: men who may be good fathers, kind to animals, even unassuming - yet who committed unspeakable crimes. Years later, reporting on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt wrote of the banality of evil. Like Eichmann, most Nuremberg defendants never aspired to be villains. Rather, they over-identified with an ideological cause and suffered from a lack of imagination or empathy: they couldn't fully appreciate the human consequences of their career-motivated decisions. - Douglas Linder, The Nuremberg Trials

krshorewood said...

I have a proposal. Why not mandate every industry to have a "conscience clause?"