Greg Roach's Berkshires Blog
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
  This is not a post about abortion
I don't want to have a discussion about pro-life versus pro-choice. I do want to point out that Scott Brown's position is inconsistent with his tantrum over Martha Coakley's commercial that points out that an amendment he offered to a bill would have potentially allowed a hospital to deny Plan B birth control to rape victims is absolutely 100% disingenuous. Here is the actual language in question, as presented in the Senate by Brown:
Nothing in this section shall impose any requirements upon any employee, physician or nurse of any facility to the extent that administering the contraception conflicts with a sincerely held religious belief. In determining whether an employee, physician or nurse of any facility has a sincerely held religious belief administering the contraception, the conflict shall be known and disclosed to said facility and on record at said facility.

If it is deemed that said employee, physician or nurse of any facility has a sincerely held religious conflict administering the contraception, then said treating facility shall have in place a validated referral procedure policy for referring patients for administration of the emergency contraception that will administer the emergency contraception, which may include a contract with another facility. The referrals shall be made at no additional cost to the patient.
That is not ambiguous.

Sorry Scott. You can send your American Idol daughter out to defend you, but you can't run away from your own work.
 
Comments:
Dribble like this is where politicians lose me and my vote. If you can't defend a position you took then either you are admitting that you supported the wrong side of the issue or you had no clue what you were supporting.

Either way - no vote from me.
 
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