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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2013 - 2014
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | January 11, 2013 01:42 PM |
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| From: | Representative Jim Cox |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Freedom of Conscience Act |
In the near future I plan to introduce legislation which will protect the fundamental right of conscience for individuals and institutions that provide health care products, services, and procedures such as those related to abortion and contraception. This bill will protect those professionals throughout the Commonwealth from being forced to go against their religious, moral or ethical principles. Health care providers and institutions should not be required to participate in any service that violates their conscience. Any phase of medical care, treatment or procedure relating to abortion, artificial birth control, emergency contraception, artificial insemination, assisted reproduction, human cloning, human embryonic stem-cell research, fetal experimentation and sterilization is included in this bill. Co-sponsors to prior versions of this legislation include: Aument, Baker, Barbin, Barrar, Benninghoff, Bloom, Brooks, Causer, Clymer, Cutler, Denlinger, Dunbar, Gabler, Gibbons, Gillen, Grove, Hennessey, Hess, Kauffman, Kavulich, Killion, Kortz, Krieger, Lawrence, Longietti, Metcalfe, Mustio, Rapp, Reese, Roae, Rock, Saccone, Saylor, Scavello, Simmons, Stern, Stevenson, Swanger, Tallman, Truitt and Turzai. . |
Introduced as HB383