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Health Care | Moves against conscience protections threaten more than pro-life doctors and pharmacists | Amy Henry

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The year is 1971. MacArthur Hill has the dream. Again. He is standing in front of a jury, holding a live baby in his arms, staring down into a bucket of water, deliberating: Should he, or should he not, drown the child? The former obstetrician/abortionist says about his practice, "I knew that what I was doing was wrong. My body just instinctively knew. Clearly, conscience was involved here."

The issue of conscience has come to the fore ever since President Barack Obama took office with a pledge to eliminate pro-life measures passed by state legislatures. His chief vehicle for doing that: the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), which Donna Harrison, president of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG), calls a "sweeping elimination of conscience, because it establishes abortion as a fundamental right, like free speech, and puts abortion under anti-discrimination law."

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July 18, 2009, Vol. 24, No. 14

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