DHHS: Should a Physician’s Conscience be Penalized?

Family Voice, the blog of the Family Policy Council of West Virginia has this post that begins:

At this point in our nation’s history, it is axiomatic to say that we enjoy a freedom of religion. Yet, at times one wonders just how far that freedom reaches. When abortion “rights” meet rights of conscience, who wins?

The answer to that question (aside from that fact that one is found explicitly within our Constitution and the other only within the “penumbras” surrounding it) is precisely what the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt is trying to figure out . . .