Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Protecting health care workers?

(From today's NYT) The Bush administration is pushing new regulations to protect the rights of health care workers and their religious obligations to reject certain work. Currently, "Under the Civil Rights Act, an employer must make reasonable accommodations for an employee's religious practices, unless the employer can show that doing so would cause 'undue hardship on the conduct of its business.'" If that wasn't enough, here's what the story continued to say, and I find deplorable:

"As an example of the policies to which they object, Bush adminsitration officials cited a Connecticut law that generally requires hospitals to provide rape victims with timely access to and information about emergency contraception."

Whaaaat? So a woman's health--at a traumatic point--is to take back seat to someone's religious objection? That's going to be enshrined in law? Sickening.

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