Christian
Newswire -- The Louisiana Healthcare Workers Conscience Act, HB-517,
has passed. 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 Senator Amedee was able to
strip that line from the bill today. The Louisiana 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. Governor Bobby Jindal, who has a strong pro-life record, has promised to
sign the bill.
The PFLI (see below) was instrumental in getting this bill through to the approval stage.
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,
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