Louisiana Passes Conscience Clause Bill for ALL Health Care Workers
Pharmacists for Life International:
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (June 24) -- The LA Healthcare Workers Conscience Act, HB-517, passed late this afternoon, LARTL is reporting.
Despite efforts to dilute the inevitability of the bill by pro-abortion pols, pro-life legislators fought off the attack against rights of conscience for ALL health care workers.
The bill had been amended days ago so that it only applied to public employees, but Sen. Amedee was able to strip that line from the bill today.
The LA House had originally passed the bill by a 2 to 1 margin of 65 to 33. The Senate followed last week and the final Senate-House conference overwhelmingly passed the conference bill 31-2.
Gov. Bobby Jindal, who has a strong pro-life record, has promised to sign the bill.
Pharmacists For Life International (PFLI) is the only pharmacy association which is exclusively pro-life, something no other pharmacy organization can say (or would have the courage to say!). PFLI is a worldwide apostolate of thousands of pharmacists, plus hundreds of other health professionals, pharmacy students, interns, pharmacy technicians, and the public, in the USA, Canada and worldwide. We have active regional coordinators in many states and nations. For more information or the latest breaking news in matters of conscience or the pharmacy profession go to PFLI.org, and sign up for FREE daily email news while you're there!
Contact:
Bogomir Kuhar
PharmD, Exec. Director
Pharmacists for Life International
740-881-5520
