Bush Lets
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The healthcare industry can refuse medical treatment for patients on moral grounds, according to a midnight rule change by the Bush adminstration. If healthcare workers – be it doctors, hospitals, or volunteers in medical experiment – find a procedure to be against their conscience, then they have the right to not perform it. So birth control, abortion, emergency contraception, stem cell research and assisted suicide could all be dead on the operating table, so to speak. The 11th-hour rule was published last week in the Federal Register and goes into effect once President George W. Bush leave the White House. President-Elect Barack Obama has already criticized the rule and went on record in support of women
