Obama Administration to Reverse Bush Rule on 'Conscience' Regulation
Policy Provides Sweeping Federal Protections to Health-Care Workers Who Refuse to Provide Care That Violates Their Beliefs
By Rob Stein, Washington Post Staff WriterFriday, February 27, 2009
"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. Once the OMB has reviewed the proposal it will be published in Federal Register for a 30-day public comment period."...
...read the rest of this article HERE.
You may notice that President Obama's administration (see Health and Human Services) referrs to legislative activity of this kind as a move towards a "middle ground" on the issues related to abortion. What exactly does "middle ground" mean? Or, a better question...where does this "middle ground" exist?
Here, TIME Magazine, and The Boston Globe take a shot at defining such territory.
But for a Catholic perspective try THIS ONE:
February 6, 2009 · Richard Doerflinger, associate director of the Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, weighs in on the ongoing debate about abortion. The discussion is another installment of the conversation started last week with the Rev. Jim Wallis, an evangelical who told Tell Me More he believes America can reach a common ground in the fight over abortion.
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PARTING THOUGHTS...
Does "common ground" equal "middle ground"? How do we balance our efforts to persuade the "other side" to join us with attempts to establish pseudo-compromise without actually compromising the integrity of the truth about God's smallest and most innocent ?
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