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» Sweeping 'Right of Conscience' Changes?
The outgoing Bush administration is planning to announce a broad new "right of conscience" rule permitting medical facilities, doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other health-care workers to refuse to participate in any procedure they find morally objectionable, including abortion and possibly even artificial insemination and birth control. For more than 30 years, federal law has dictated that doctors and nurses may refuse to perform abortions. The new rule would go further by making clear that health-care workers may also refuse to provide information or advice to patients who might want an abortion. It seeks to also cover far more employees. For example, in addition to a surgeon and a nurse in an operating room, the rule would extend to "an employee whose task it is to clean the instruments," the draft rule said. [... ] Abortion-rights advocates think it might be easier to get Democrats in Congress to reject the rule. Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., before being nominated for secretary of state Monday, and Patty Murray, D-Wash., have said they would move to reverse it." [AP] |
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Though both have remained relatively tight-lipped on specifics, Obama and McCain have both thrown out names here and there, but few are more intriguing than Tom Ridge. |
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Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee reiterated his archaic views on abortion and gay marriage yesterday on CNN. CONTINUED » |
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What Would Jesus Do?
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama sat down the Pat "Rudy Lover" Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network last week to talk about two controversial political issues" abortion and gay marriage. CONTINUED » |
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Anti-Gay Pro-Lifer Launches Insane, Topsy-Turvy Attack
They got at least part of answer today after anti-abortion activist and Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry took aim at Robertson - among others. Note his clever take on NYC's current mayor, Michael Bloomberg. |
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MSNBC's Chris Matthews played Hardball with Pat Roberton's Rudy Giuliani endorsement last night. CONTINUED » |
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Mary Ann Glendon To Be Ambassador?
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Watching, Listening, Judging
Jamaica's Bishop Herro Blair used Sunday's services to warn politicians - including PM Portia Simpson Miller and unabashedly homophobic opposition leader Bruce Golding, who were both in attendance - that he and his brethren will be watching their move as general election campaigns resume after a month break, "Our cameras are on zoom lens and we are going to listen to the speeches as of Tuesday." Watching and listening? That's some serious shit. |
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Brownback also talked about keeping marriage between a man and a woman, saying nations that have allowed same-sex marriages were engaging in bad social experiments, with bad results. Wasn't democracy at one point a social experiment? Also, we'd like to hear about these so-called "bad results"? Are their droughts? Have cities been overrun by locusts? Do demons spring up from hell and devour children? Or is he just trying to scare people straight to the voting booth. |
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It's no surprise to see correlations between a state's legislation concerning abortion and its laws concerning gay rights. New analysis from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and two other advocacy groups that looked at 25 different laws – ranging from recognition of same-sex unions to accessibility to emergency contraception – put New Mexico and New York on the top of the list, while Ohio and South Dakota shared the bottom spot. Not surprisingly, the conservative legislator Sen. Lee Schoenbeck (R-, S.D.), congratulated himself, calling the results as “a badge of honor.” |
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Three of the men received sentectes of six years each; one of the men is a French citizen, who received a one year sentence. (The group's total prison sentences total thirty years.)
The name of the site has not been released, and the Moroccan government blocked access to the site. We can't imagine that life in a Moroccan prison is anything like what we see in those prison-porn movies, either. Yuck. &bull Speaking of politics you'd find in a Third World country: unbeknownst to most gay people, abortion is NOW ILLEGAL in South Dakota, and legislators are pushing to pass similar bans in several other states, including Mississippi. The goal is to bring a case to the Supreme Court, which will most likely overturn Roe vs. Wade. Although now that sodomy is legal again, it was only a matter of time before people got itchy for another sex law to fight. Make a porno, go to prison [Moroccan Times] |