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Dear Friends,

Mike Leavitt, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), wrote an excellent blog on why HHS is considering regulations to enforce laws protecting the right of health professionals not to participate in abortions. Abortion advocates are flooding his blog with negative comments opposing the regulations. They don't believe pro-life doctors should have the right to choose not to do abortions.

If we don't stand up for pro-life health providers, it could lead to them being forced to either participate in or refer for abortions, physician-assisted suicide, or other controversial practices - or simply to leave the profession altogether.

As patients, we could lose the ability to choose pro-life health professionals. Imagine having to get pre-natal care from a doctor who just moments before killed another woman's baby.

Sec. Leavitt has invited our comments. The Department needs our backing to prove that pro-life professionals should have the right to choose not to participate in abortions or other controversial actions.

I posted a comment. Now's your chance.

Your blog comment doesn't have to be long.

Pro-abortion groups have twisted the focus on whether some types of contraception cause abortion. This is a deliberate misreading of the regulations. The regulations simply respect varying viewpoints. They allow health providers to rely on sound medical judgment. They focus on the right of health professionals to follow their conscience and their Hippocratic Oath to "do no harm."

As patients, we depend - with our lives - on health providers to be moral and act in what they believe to be the best interest of their patients. But if moral professionals with strong consciences are forced out of the profession, patients will pay the price.

It will take only a few minutes, but you can make a big difference. Click here and scroll to the bottom to add your post.

You can read Sec. Leavitt's response to some of the comments here: http://secretarysblog.hhs.gov/my_weblog/2008/08/physician-con-1.html

To read more about this issue go to: HHS Secretary Addresses Abortion Groups' Lies, Seeks to Protect Pro-Life Doctors and Patients

No "Right To Choose" for Pro-Life Doctors

Sincerely,

Wendy Wright
President