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Giving 'Faith Based' a Bad Name

Published in Hospital Business Week, August 10th, 2008

According to an HHS memo leaked to the New York Times (July 15, Robert Pear), the Bush Administration wants to require that all hospitals and birth control clinics receiving federal health funds certify that they will not "discriminate" against nurses and other staff who object to contraception and birth control.

Contrast this proposed regulation with the Bush administration's insistence that religious providers of social services under the president's faith based initiative be allowed to discriminate in favor of those who share their religious beliefs.

In our view this is just the sort of hypocritical double-standard that gives faith-based...

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Source: Hospital Business Week (2008-08-10)

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