Tag: healthcare

Minnesota Sen. Klobuchar wrongly claims most women seek health care at Planned Parenthood

Wildly inaccurate statement prompts response “Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s statement that ‘a great majority of women in this country get their health care’ from Planned Parenthood is demonstrably false,” said Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life (MCCL) Executive Director Scott Fischbach. Sen. Klobuchar made the claim in a Daily Show television interview this week and posted the …

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Tell Congress: Abortion is NOT Healthcare

By Carol Tobias, President The American Health Care Act (AHCA), legislation that would repeal and replace major portions of the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” (more commonly known as Obamacare), will be voted on in the U.S. House of Representatives this week. National Right to Life is supporting, the AHCA because it has specific …

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The right of conscientious objection goes to the heart of medical practice as a moral activity

By Dave Andrusko We’ve covered the battle over freedom of conscience without fail for decades. Beyond an absolute “right” to abortion on demand, paid for by you and me, next to “normalizing abortion,” pro-abortions want most of all the ability to conscript the medical community into its army of death providers. Perhaps, even more ideally, …

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No one who believes abortion is wrong should ever be forced to participate in the killing of a fellow human being.

Imagine being forced, against your will, to participate in abortion – the deliberate killing of an innocent child. That would never happen in America, right? Wrong! A long-standing federal law known as the Weldon Amendment exists to guarantee that health care entities don’t have to be involved abortions in any way if they choose not …

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Canadian doctors have developed a new technique for treating brain tumors

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition One of the more devastating diagnosis is to be told that you have a brain tumor. Brittany Maynard died by physician-assisted suicide last year to avoid living with a brain tumor. California legalized assisted suicide in large part in response to the campaign which used Brittany Maynard …

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Jerry Brown Vetoes Right to Try and Live Bill

By Wesley J. Smith This makes zero sense. Last week, Gov. Jerry Brown signed assisted suicide into law in California. This week, he vetoed a bill that would have allowed dying patients to access experimental drugs in an attempt to live. From the Sacramento Bee story: Less than a week after signing legislation allowing California …

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The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario is taking a dangerous position on conscience rights

  By Patricia Maloney The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO), wants to change how doctors are required to refer for care. Their draft policy, Professional Obligations and Human Rights states: “Where physicians are unwilling to provide certain elements of care due to their moral or religious beliefs, an effective referral to another …

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Told to abort, mother seeks second opinion and baby—“a fighter” —is born healthy

  By Dave Andrusko Not to pick on the medical profession as a profession, but where have you heard this before? A baby, Angel Gomez, is alive—and doing well—but wouldn’t be here at all if the mother had listened to her doctor. Yesenia Torres was 21 weeks pregnant when (as she told KPIX 5) her …

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College of Physicians, please stand up for religious minorities

  By Faye Sonier Editor’s note. Dr. Gabel is Member of Council and Past President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. He is the chair of the College’s policy working group which issued the draft “Professional Obligations and Human Rights” policy. Faye Sonier is Legal Counsel for the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada …

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Efforts to suppress spending on life-saving drugs are working—while development of new drugs is stagnating

  New analysis details a disappointing explanation for recent decreases in Medicare spending growth – a paucity of new life-saving and health-preserving drugs By Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics The title of an October 23, 2014, Washington Post article seemingly would have us rejoicing: “You may want to thank George W. …

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Even bigoted study finds high-cost drugs worth it

  By Burke J. Balch, J.D., director of the National Right to Life Committee’s Powell Center for Medical Ethics These days, as for some time past, much outrage is directed at pricey drugs, and both the government and insurance companies increasingly implement policies to keep patients from getting them. To give one widely-publicized example, Members …

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