Protect Health Care Religious Objections

I've seen this in a couple places, and wanted to pass it along to you:

You have a vitally important opportunity to immediately send a message to prevent a critical loss of access to healthcare professionals who are being systematically pressured to violate ethical standards. Here's what's been happening:

1. In August 2008, the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) took long-overdue action to address a growing crisis of abortion-related discrimination that could force thousands of conscientious healthcare professionals out of medicine. After several months of public comment on its proposed regulation, in December 2008 HHS finalized a regulation that made clear the protections offered by three civil rights laws passed by Congress with bipartisan support.
2. The civil rights laws declare that American tax dollars will not fund programs in which healthcare professionals are fired, penalized or otherwise subjected to discrimination because of their ethical stance related to abortion and other morally controversial issues.
   
3. However, in March 2009, following protests from abortion special interest groups, the new administration officially declared plans to rescind--get rid of--the conscience-protecting regulation. The administration has, as required by law, called for public comment on the proposed plan to get rid of the conscience-protecting regulation, with a deadline of April 9, 2009

Not only would this be bad for those individuals, but it would also be very, very bad for the country at large, because there is a very real possibility that all Catholic or religious hospitals in the country would choose to shut down rather than provide abortions, and that means about 1/3 of all medical facilities would close their doors. It's hard to imagine a bigger disaster-in-the-making for American health care than this, but Obama is doing it. After all, he's the most pro-abortion President we've ever had.

Today is the last day to weigh in; to do so, go here, read some more, and offer your thoughts. The deadline is midnight tonight, so if you feel inclined to take action, do it quickly.

There's my two cents.