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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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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