Healthcare Rights of Conscience: A Hotbed of Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Action in 2008

Mailee Smith reports on the Americans United for Life Blog:

Most state legislative sessions have ended for 2008, and the results in the area of rights of conscience are fairly depressing. A disturbing 60 percent of all conscience-related bills considered this year were compulsion bills. In other words, these were not bills aimed at protecting the conscientious and moral beliefs of healthcare providers; instead, these were bills aimed at forcing pharmacists and other healthcare providers to provide drugs and treatments contrary to their moral beliefs . . .