Even With Everything Else, Don't Lose Sight of the Religious Right's War on Women's Right to Privacy

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : This clause was also Senate-added language, and it allows a medical professional, health care institution or health care payer to "decline to perform, participate in, or pay for any health care service that violates the practitioner's, institution's, or payer's conscience as informed by the moral, ethical, or religious beliefs or principles" held by them.
47% : Ordinarily, enforcement would be up to government officials, and if clinics wanted to challenge the law's constitutionality, they would sue those officials in making their case.
46% : The provision passed the Texas State Legislature this spring as part of a bill that bans abortion after a doctor detects a fetal heartbeat, usually at about six weeks of pregnancy.
43% : A further element of the newly-passed budget that pro-choice advocates say is "dangerous" to Ohioans is the so-called "medical practitioner conscience clause.
38% : DeWine said, for instance, doctors opposed to abortion are not performing those procedures.

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