{"id":78051,"date":"2016-07-13T23:11:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T04:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=78051"},"modified":"2016-07-13T23:11:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T04:11:00","slug":"house-oks-conscience-protection-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/07\/13\/house-oks-conscience-protection-act\/","title":{"rendered":"House OKs &#8216;Conscience Protection Act&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013\u00a0U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) voted Wednesday to adopt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/114\/bills\/hr4828\/BILLS-114hr4828ih.pdf\">H.R. 4828<\/a>, the Conscience Protection Act, to ensure that health care providers are not required to participate in abortions if it\u00a0violates their beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation protects\u00a0hospitals, doctors, nurses, and insurance plans from having to carry out, assist, or fund the procedure if they have\u00a0conscientious\u00a0objections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoctors and nurses enter into the health care field\u00a0to save lives, and it\u2019s not surprising that many object to\u00a0participating\u00a0in any action where they are taking them,\u201d said Latta.\u00a0\u201cFor many, being required to take part in such a brutal procedure violates the Hippocratic Oath. No one should be required to violate their conscience.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013\u00a0U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) voted Wednesday to adopt H.R. 4828, the Conscience Protection Act, to ensure that health care providers are not required to participate in abortions if it\u00a0violates their beliefs. The legislation protects\u00a0hospitals, doctors, nurses, and insurance plans from having to carry out, assist, or fund the procedure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 21:42:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}