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CBHD: Protecting the Health Care Provider’s Right of Conscience - Theresa Collett In Alaska, the state supreme court has opined that private hospitals receiving state or federal funds must make their surgical suites available for the performance of elective abortions, due to their having become (according to state constitutional law) "quasi-public" institutions upon receipt of such funds.1 While the Court has not yet been directly presented with the question of whether religiously affiliated hospitals are encompassed by the ruling, statements in the opinion suggest that the ruling does apply to such hospitals.2 In Texas, a jury found a private hospital liable for an excess of $42 million for disregarding parental objections and providing life-sustaining care to an infant born after twenty-three weeks of gestation.3 Only through the intervention of the appellate courts was the hospital relieved from this liability. In California, a physicians' group has been sued for violating state anti-discrimination laws due to a doctor's refusal to artificially inseminate a patient involved in a lesbian relationship. Dr. Brody, a Christian and an employee of the group, had agreed to treat the patient for infertility; however, the doctor had clearly stated from the outset that she was unwilling to artificially inseminate the patient. Full Article: http://www.cbhd.org/resources/healthcare/collett_2004-04-27.htm |
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