By Dave Andrusko
The City Attorney for Columbus, Ohio, is suing the state over a law that protects medical professionals’ conscience rights.
In a lawsuit filed in Franklin County Common Pleas Court, City Attorney Zach Klein sued the state over a 2021 law which “provides medical professionals legal protections from patients and health care employers for denying any care or treatment that violates their conscience or religious beliefs,” according to reporter Bill Bush of The Columbus Dispatch.
This law is imperative in protecting pro-life doctors from being forced to perform abortions or euthanasia. Ohio Right Life Executive Director Peter Range had this to say about a law that allows workers in the medical profession the freedom to not participate in services that violates their conscience:
“No American in any occupation, let alone doctors, should have to choose between their livelihood and violating their conscience. In fact, it is unconscionable that in a country which was founded on individual liberty and the right to life, the progressive left would seek to force doctors to perform abortions or other radical procedures concerning our youth.”
“This is just another example of the extreme lengths anti-life activists will go to advance access to abortion and ultimately euthanasia. The thought that some lives are worth living and some are not, coupled by an attempt to force those in the healing profession to harm or end the lives of others undermines the foundation of our society. Ohio Right to Life is committed to the values written in our constitution and fostering a culture of life that values every single person made in the image and likeness of God.”
Range added, “We encourage all to contact Columbus City Attorney Zach Klein’s office at 614-645-7385, letting him know Ohioans believe in doctors’ rights to follow their conscience to save and protect life, not destroy it.”