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The "Conscience Rule" Regulation Dispute

April 9, 2009

     Under a series of federal laws (the Church Amendments, the Danforth Amendment, and the Weldon Amendment) doctors and other health care workers who refuse to perform sterilizations or abortions may not be fired or otherwise discriminated against by their employers, and heath care institutions that refuse to perform sterilizations or abortions may not be denied [...]

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The Bradbury Memos

March 5, 2009

    On January 15, 2009, just five days before tne end of the Presidency of George W. Bush and five days before the Inauguration of Barack Obama, Stephen G. Bradbury, a Bush administration official with the Justice Department, issued a memorandum withdrawing a number of Justice Department opinions that had been written by other Bush appointees in 2001 and 2002 declaring that [...]

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Rove, Miers to Testify – Reach Agreement on Executive Privilege

March 5, 2009

     News reports indicate that all parties – former President Bush, the Obama administration, the House Judiciary Committee, and the witnesses themselves – have reached an agreement under which Karl Rove and Harriet Miers will give testimony to the Committee regarding the U.S. Attorney scandal.  The key sticking point had been "executive privilege."  The Committee [...]

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Contraception as Abortion

July 22, 2008

     The Bush administration's Department of Health and Human Services has drafted a a proposed rule that would redefine certain forms of contraception as "abortion."  According to the New York Times:
The proposal defines abortion as follows: "any of the various procedures – including the prescription, dispensing and administration of any drug or the performance of any [...]

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