1.0 link 152107 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jodi-jacobson/unconscionable-policies-d_b_152107.html Today -- in a last gasp action of the Bush Administration -- the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published regulations dramatically expanding the right of health care workers to refuse to provide services, information and referrals to patients seeking procedures, prescriptions or other forms of care deemed by the provider as "objectionable." Through ambiguous language, the regulations could deeply undermine long-established principles of medical ethics and responsibility by, for example, allowing providers to conflate widely used contraceptives devices,...

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