Obama Scraps ‘Conscience’ Rule for Health Workers

The Obama administration today undid an eleventh-hour rule enacted by George W. Bush that gave health workers the option to refuse to perform a litany of procedures they objected to on moral, religious, or cultural grounds. Declaring the so-called “conscience” rule “unclear and potentially overbroad in scope,” the administration trimmed…

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Obama Scraps ‘Conscience’ Rule for Health Workers

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