Louisiana governor signs expanded conscience protection laws
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Gov. Bobby Jindal

Baton Rouge, La., Jul 12, 2009 / 05:48 am (CNA).- Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has signed a law expanding conscience protections for health care workers beyond abortion.

House Bill 517, sponsored by Democratic State Rep. Bernard LeBas, allows any person to refuse to provide abortions, distribute “abortifacient drugs,” work on human embryonic stem cell research or cloning, or participate in euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide.

The drug provision is intended to include the “morning-after pill” but would not extend to regular birth control, the Times-Picayune reports.

The Jindal administration said the measure is necessary to uphold the individual rights of health care workers whose personal beliefs might conflict with their profession.

Social conservatives and religious activists supported the bill, while opponents such as Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union said the law would restrict patient access to accurate information and timely services.

Benjamin Clapper, executive director of the Louisiana Right to Life Federation, told CNA previously that the passage of the bill is a victory for health care workers across the state that would help them “excel” in their profession without concerns about being coerced into providing services against their conscience.

“Even though this legislation was under sustained attack from Planned Parenthood and the ACLU, Louisiana understood that conscience rights should be protected,” he said.

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Published by: diane smith
Northern California, USA 07/13/2009 04:22 PM EST
Good for you Louisiana!

How dare the federal bureaucrats even THINK about removing conscience rights.

PlANNED pARENTHOOD, THE NATION'S ABORTIONISTS and
the ACLU, which exists to remove God from American life, has obvious agendas. The fewer the babies murdered, the less profit these greedy groups will get.
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Published by: FW
Baton Rouge, LA, USA 07/12/2009 10:02 PM EST
Spectacular news!
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Published by: Robert Matzinger
Taylor/Michigan/USA 07/12/2009 08:34 PM EST
God Bless State Rep LeBas and Governor Jindal and the people of Louisiana for hearing the Voice of Christ and protecting those who observe our most cherished act of our Catholic Faith: protection of the inborn.
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Published by: Mark
Edison/NJ/USA 07/12/2009 04:55 PM EST
Doctors should not be forced to kill someone. God Bless Bobby Jindal.
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Published by: dAVID LARSEN
scituate Mass 07/12/2009 01:40 PM EST
It is simple. If a health care worker can't perform a procedure in good faith and the law unjustly mandates that he or she must,than the logical move is to quit the practice. The protection for a practice,of the practice of good conscience,is that important.
Planned parenthood and the ALCU,are agenda based organizations,similar to the Nazi Hitler based regime of WW2 Germany,that wanted to desperately eliminate the Jewish people. The issue with them is population control in what is considered undesirable areas of the population.
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