{"id":887,"date":"2008-12-30T09:41:26","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T14:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/masonvotes.gmu.edu\/blog\/?p=887"},"modified":"2008-12-30T09:41:54","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T14:41:54","slug":"rights-of-conscience-live-blog-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/30\/rights-of-conscience-live-blog-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Rights of Conscience Live Blog &#8211; TODAY!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPI&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Voice of Young Voters<\/em>\u00a0will be hosting a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Features\/Voice_Young_Voters\/Blog\/?p=344\" target=\"_blank\">Live Blog<\/a>, December 30, on the controversial \u201crights of conscience\u201d ruling. This rule, recently issued by the Bush administration, enhances the abilities of health care providers to refuse services, such as abortion, based on their personal religious and moral beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling has spurred\u00a0contentious debate, with 13 state attorney generals joining Connecticut AG Richard Blumenthal in opposing the rule. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt defended the ruling, saying that \u201cdoctors and other health care providers should not be forced to choose between good professional standing and violating their conscience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Join the\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Features\/Voice_Young_Voters\/Blog\" target=\"_blank\">Voice of Young Voters<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Features\/Voice_Young_Voters\/Blog\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0featured bloggers<\/a>, for a\u00a0rousing live discussion\u00a0of the rights of conscience. The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Features\/Voice_Young_Voters\/Blog\/?p=344\" target=\"_blank\">Live Blog<\/a>\u00a0will begin at 6 pm EST on Tuesday, December 30.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/rocliveblog\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Join the Live Blog!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPI&#8217;s\u00a0Voice of Young Voters\u00a0will be hosting a\u00a0Live Blog, December 30, on the controversial \u201crights of conscience\u201d ruling. This rule, recently issued by the Bush administration, enhances the abilities of health care providers to refuse services, such as abortion, based on their personal religious and moral beliefs. The ruling has spurred\u00a0contentious debate, with 13 state attorney [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3,7],"tags":[140,247,221],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":893,"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions\/893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}