We just received notice of a radical bill being introduced in New York which may have ramifications upon the entire pro-life medical community and pregnancy centers.  If this bill passes, it could set a precedent for this happening elsewhere. A format for medical professionals from all over the country to have input has been set up and is available through the link provided within the article.

Please read the information sent to us from Jim Hardin, President/CEO of CompassCare Pregnancy Services in New York.

Medical professionals - please consider joining with those responding to the bill.  We urge you to forward this information to other medical professionals who may be interested in responding to this bill as well.

A radical abortion expansion bill is being proffered by 2016 Presidential Hopeful Andrew Cuomo.

As you know there are more abortions per capita in New York than anywhere else in the nation. Now Governor Cuomo has vowed to pass the Reproductive Health Act (RHA) making abortion and contraception fundamental rights for ‘all individuals.’ The stipulations of the bill radically deregulate abortion and abortion procedures, reduces licensing thresholds for those who can legally provide them, eliminates penalties for abortion malpractice, and reduces penalties for crimes against pregnant women.

The implications for the medical community and Pro-life pregnancy centers in NY are dire. (Click here to see how this could affect you.)

There are many reasons why the RHA is terrible including that it provides no conscience protections for medical clinicians who refuse to refer patients for abortion. If abortion becomes a fundamental right and medical providers or medical pregnancy centers are not referring for them, that would make centers discriminatory by restricting access to a fundamental human right. Making fundamental rights out of certain legal (albeit unethical) medical procedures is a slippery slope that could take medicine in any number of bad directions.

A simple tool has just been released to allow medical clinicians to add a voice to a medical ethics statement of protest for Cuomo’s abortion expansion bill at the Commission for Reproductive Health Service Standards website. We need your help to reach out to the medical community--OB/GYNs, Pediatricians, Nurse Practitioners, Certified Nurse Midwives, and Physician Assistants, add your voice in a medical ethics statement of protest.

Please help the court of public opinion to hear the voice of the medical community.