I thought the deadline was November 1

[rolanni]

After eight years that nobody would call easy, it's nice to see that Mr. Bush is still willing to break up a little more furniture for the cause.

Excerpted from the New York Times:

WASHINGTON — A last-minute Bush administration plan to grant sweeping new protections to health care providers who oppose abortion and other procedures on religious or moral grounds has provoked a torrent of objections, including a strenuous protest from the government agency that enforces job discrimination laws.

The proposed rule would prohibit recipients of federal money from discriminating against doctors, nurses and other health care workers who refuse to perform or to assist in the performance of abortions or sterilization procedures because of their “religious beliefs or moral convictions.”

. . .

Mr. Ishimaru and senior members of the commission staff said that neither the Department of Health and Human Services nor the White House had consulted their agency before issuing the proposed rule. The White House Office of Management and Budget received the proposal on Aug. 21 and cleared it on the same day, according to a government Web site that keeps track of the rule-making process.

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Comments

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

I think the Nov. 1 deadline was for other people to quit trying to squeeze things in. His own rules, now, they're special.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

"Go not gentle into that good night . . ."

[(Anonymous)]

Well, if he doesn't want to go gently, I for one have no problem getting together with some like-minded folks with baseball bats.... :)
Teresa

[paw3pals.livejournal.com]

This is probably a measure to protect Catholic and other hospitals and medical care workers from the Freedom of Choice Act, which Obama has said he will sign. As Federal law, it will supersede existing State laws and has the potential effect of closing all Catholic hospitals, for example.

http://www.lifenews.com/nat4527.html

[tapetum.livejournal.com]

Possibly, except that it's a bit sweeping to be well aimed if that's the target. More like swatting flies with a laser cannon. The redefinition of several kinds of birth control as abortion - in direct contravention of the actual medical science regarding said forms of birth control - is particularly heinous.