The Obama administration’s move to rescind broad new job protections that allowed the freedom of choice for health workers on whether or not they would contribute in providing assistance in elective health procedures, such as abortion, that they find morally objectionable triggered an immediate political storm yesterday, underscoring the difficulties the president faces in his effort to find common ground on anything related to the explosive issue of abortion.
The new policy of the Obama administration, pursued in support of a woman’s right to choose, demands that those medical workers who have religious and moral reasons against abortion are denied freedom of choice to honor their religious and moral convictions. In this reversal medical workers will be compelled by work place laws to violate their convictions.
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With this decision President Obama reveals his deep commitment to the abortion cause as it is the second major decision making abortions more easily accessible in Obama’s five short weeks in office. This denial of choice to medical care workers follows an earlier administration decision to lift restrictions on federal funding of international family-planning groups that perform abortions or provide abortion information. These two decisions seems to promise an eventual pursuit, by the Obama administration, of the euphemistically labeled “Freedom Of Choice Act.”
