TITLE: Protecting the Rights of Conscience of Health Care Providers and a Parent's Right To Know

CIS-NO: 2002-H361-70  
SOURCE: Committee on Energy and Commerce. House  
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve the full text of testimony  
DATE: July 11, 2002  
LENGTH: iii+73 p.  
CONG-SESS: 107-2  
ITEM-NO: 1019-A-01; 1019-B-01  
SUDOC: Y4.C73/8:107-126  
 
GPO-STOCK-NO: 552-070-28867-8.

SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 107-126. Hearing before the Subcom on Health to examine the right of health care providers to refrain from performing abortions if they have moral or religious objections to the procedure, and the right of parents to be notified regarding HHS family planning services, funded under Public Health Service Act Title X, received by their children.
 
Also considers H.R. 4691, the Abortion Non-Discrimination Act, to prohibit the Federal Government, and any State or local government that receives Federal financial assistance from discriminating against health care entities on the basis of their refusal to perform or pay for abortions.
 
Supplementary material (p. 71-73) includes a submitted statement.

CONTENT-NOTATION: Health care providers right to refuse to perform abortions; HHS family planning services provided to minors, parental notification rights

BILLS: 107 H.R. 4691

DESCRIPTORS:  
   SUBCOM ON HEALTH, ENERGY AND COMMERCE. HOUSE;  HEALTH FACILITIES AND SERVICES; ABORTION; MEDICAL ETHICS; FAMILIES; FAMILY PLANNING; FEDERAL AID TO MEDICINE; DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE ACT; ABORTION NON-DISCRIMINATION ACT; FEDERAL AID TO STATES-HEALTH.AND.MEDICINE; FEDERAL AID TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS-HEALTH.AND.MEDICINE

02-H361-70 TESTIMONY NO: 1     July 11, 2002 p. 10-42
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   VOSBURGH, KAREN (Director, Association Board, Valley Hospital, Palmer, Alaska)
   WEISS, CATHERINE (Director, Reproductive Freedom Project, ACLU)
   WARDLE, LYNN D. (Professor, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University)
 
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Opposing views on H.R. 4691; review of alleged efforts by abortion rights supporters to use powers of Government to compel hospitals, clinics, provider groups, and health care insurers to provide facilities, personnel, and funding for abortions (related doc, p. 31-34).
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Health care providers right to refuse to perform abortions, issues review
 
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION; VALLEY HOSPITAL, PALMER, ALASKA; HOSPITALS AND NURSING HOMES; HEALTH INSURANCE
 
 
02-H361-70 TESTIMONY NO: 2     July 11, 2002 p. 43-71
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   WUCHNER, ADDIA (Board Member, Northern Kentucky Independent District Health Department)
   JENKINS, RENEE S. (Dr.) (Chair, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Howard University College of Medicine; representing American Academy of Pediatrics)
   HEISLER, JOHN A. (Board Member, McHenry County, Ill)
 
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Need for measures to ensure parental notification regarding title X-funded family planning services; importance of maintaining Federal guarantee of confidentiality for health care services under title X program; differing views on right of parental notification regarding family planning services under title X.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   HHS family planning services provided to minors, parental notification rights
 
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS

LOAD-DATE: February 3, 2003