by APFLI | Mar 24, 2006 | Legislation / Court Cases
"I am a physician assistant (PA). My employer has asked me to see patients for birth control (combination pills, progesterone only pills, depo provera, nuva ring, ortho-evra). His expectation is that I see the patients, complete their exams, counsel them...
by APFLI | Oct 9, 2005 | Legislation / Court Cases
A federal court dismissed a lawsuit that sought to overturn the Weldon Amendment, a law forbidding state and local governments that receive federal funds from discriminating against health-care providers because they refuse to perform or refer patients for abortions....
by APFLI | Sep 22, 2005 | Legislation / Court Cases
Many nurses and other medical professionals are unaware that they have the legal right to refuse to participate in an abortion. Georgia law, for example, protects nurses from assisting in abortions and related procedures, if the nurse will simply notify her...
by APFLI | Sep 12, 2005 | Legislation / Court Cases
The AMA is backing a proposal to force pharmacists to dispense EC/MAP, and has passed a resolution that pharmacists who oppose dispensing these drugs due to moral grounds must immediately refer patients to another pharmacist. [RT Life of Greater Cincinnati,...
by APFLI | Jan 10, 2005 | Legislation / Court Cases
Conscience Protection: ACGME The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), a group that sets standards that teaching hospitals must obey to maintain accreditation, adopted a new policy requiring Ob/Gyn residency programs to perform abortions as...
