Comments for Center for Inquiry Office of Public Policy http://cfidc.wordpress.com Washington, D.C. Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:10:08 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Today is Equal Pay Day by This. Is. Cool…. Online community comes together, demanding fair pay for women | ...Because I Played Sports http://cfidc.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/today-is-equal-pay-day/#comment-126 This. Is. Cool…. Online community comes together, demanding fair pay for women | ...Because I Played Sports Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:10:08 +0000 http://cfidc.wordpress.com/?p=450#comment-126 [...] BlogHer Blue Herald Brodsky Blog Buzzflash Blog California NOW CampusProgress Capital J Care2 Center for Inquiry Office of Public Policy Change.org Women’s Rights Blog - Jen Nedeau Change.org Women’s Rights Blog - Julie [...] [...] BlogHer Blue Herald Brodsky Blog Buzzflash Blog California NOW CampusProgress Capital J Care2 Center for Inquiry Office of Public Policy Change.org Women’s Rights Blog – Jen Nedeau Change.org Women’s Rights Blog – Julie [...]

]]> Comment on On the Hill by Center for Inquiry Office of Public Policy http://cfidc.wordpress.com/what-were-doing-now/#comment-116 Center for Inquiry Office of Public Policy Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:29:04 +0000 http://cfidc.wordpress.com/?page_id=12#comment-116 Thank-you, Lois, for your comment. Your example shows why this "provider refusal" regulation was so dangerous. We hope the discussion may be moot now because of the rescission regulation, but HHS will need everyone's comments supporting it. Thank-you, Lois, for your comment. Your example shows why this “provider refusal” regulation was so dangerous. We hope the discussion may be moot now because of the rescission regulation, but HHS will need everyone’s comments supporting it.

]]> Comment on On the Hill by Lois Manning http://cfidc.wordpress.com/what-were-doing-now/#comment-115 Lois Manning Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:27:07 +0000 http://cfidc.wordpress.com/?page_id=12#comment-115 Regarding the "provider refusal" regulation: Does it apply ONLY to reproduction or does it cover any type of health care that offends the provider. For example, if a Jehovah's Witness hospital employee were working in any capacity in an emergency room and was presented with an accident victim who was bleeding out, could the employee refuse to provide a blood transfusion because of his religious beliefs? Could it possibly be constitutional to allow refusal rights only for abortion and/or contraception but not any other religious consideration? I understand Obama is planning to overturn that regulation, thank goodness, but it would be comforting to know that it could never pass constitutional muster for any reason. Regarding the “provider refusal” regulation: Does it apply ONLY to reproduction or does it cover any type of health care that offends the provider. For example, if a Jehovah’s Witness hospital employee were working in any capacity in an emergency room and was presented with an accident victim who was bleeding out, could the employee refuse to provide a blood transfusion because of his religious beliefs? Could it possibly be constitutional to allow refusal rights only for abortion and/or contraception but not any other religious consideration?

I understand Obama is planning to overturn that regulation, thank goodness, but it would be comforting to know that it could never pass constitutional muster for any reason.

]]> Comment on The Whistleblowers Act Needs Your Help! by LMW http://cfidc.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/ask-the-congress-to-pass-the-whistleblower-act/#comment-110 LMW Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:19:01 +0000 http://cfidc.wordpress.com/?p=88#comment-110 I thought you might be interested in reading a letter from Halliburton whistleblower Bunny Greenhouse urging all Americans to continue the fight for greater oversight and accountability. You can read Bunny's letter and help her protect taxpayer dollars by visiting http://capwiz.com/whistleblowers/issues/alert/?alertid=12666936 I thought you might be interested in reading a letter from Halliburton whistleblower Bunny Greenhouse urging all Americans to continue the fight for greater oversight and accountability. You can read Bunny’s letter and help her protect taxpayer dollars by visiting
http://capwiz.com/whistleblowers/issues/alert/?alertid=12666936

]]> Comment on Beware these bills! by Nepsis http://cfidc.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/beware-these-bills/#comment-108 Nepsis Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:30:00 +0000 http://cfidc.wordpress.com/?p=316#comment-108 The author of the post appears not to have read the bill if he/she thinks there is anything even remotely coercive in it. Read the text for yourself at http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s270/text This is a good and helpful bill about support for pregnant women and children's health care and the provision of information prior to making such an important decision. Ideologues on both sides of this issue appear bent on suppressing the availability of information that they don't themselves control. It also seems to me that the writer displayed a profound poverty of humanity in implying that "an emotional response to pregnancy" was something to be dismissed or disregarded. The author of the post appears not to have read the bill if he/she thinks there is anything even remotely coercive in it. Read the text for yourself at http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s270/text

This is a good and helpful bill about support for pregnant women and children’s health care and the provision of information prior to making such an important decision. Ideologues on both sides of this issue appear bent on suppressing the availability of information that they don’t themselves control.

It also seems to me that the writer displayed a profound poverty of humanity in implying that “an emotional response to pregnancy” was something to be dismissed or disregarded.

]]> Comment on “In the year of our Lord” unnecessary relic, says CFI Task Force chair by Brian Engler http://cfidc.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/in-the-year-of-our-lord-unnecessary-relic-says-cfi-task-force-chair/#comment-107 Brian Engler Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:44:40 +0000 http://cfidc.wordpress.com/?p=336#comment-107 I agree that the Common Era (CE/BCE) notation can easily be substituted for the AD/BC notation by any people or government that wants to show sensitivity to religious pluralism & secularism. Neither calendars, computers, nor other electronic systems need change, since the number of the current year remains the same in either system. Ostensibly our new President wants to display that sensitivity. Not the most pressing issue we face, as you write, but one of the simplest to fix if the will were truly there. Would that it were. I agree that the Common Era (CE/BCE) notation can easily be substituted for the AD/BC notation by any people or government that wants to show sensitivity to religious pluralism & secularism. Neither calendars, computers, nor other electronic systems need change, since the number of the current year remains the same in either system. Ostensibly our new President wants to display that sensitivity. Not the most pressing issue we face, as you write, but one of the simplest to fix if the will were truly there. Would that it were.

]]> Comment on Beware these bills! by Janet Robert, Board Chair of Democrats for Life of America http://cfidc.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/beware-these-bills/#comment-106 Janet Robert, Board Chair of Democrats for Life of America Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:22:08 +0000 http://cfidc.wordpress.com/?p=316#comment-106 I am confused why a rationalist website assumes that opposition to abortion is a theist's issue? Everyone admits there is life from conception, the issue is at what stage of life does the government step in to protect that human life? Some people say at three months, others say six months, and the partial birth abortion advocates say at birth. Abortion is a values issue that atheists and theists must address from a values perspective. Theists values are often the same values as atheists, and the most fundamental value protected under the U.S. Constitution is life. Sure it is less "emotional" to call an unborn child a "fetus", and pro-choice people prefer to use "fetus" because then you don't have to face the sad fact that we are killing unborn children. I know atheists who are opposed to abortion. There is no tricky in these two bills. The original bill was inspired by Democrats for Life of America's 95-10 initiative which was designed to deal with pregnant women. H.R. 605 added family planning which was unnecessary since family planning is already provided under other laws. I am confused why a rationalist website assumes that opposition to abortion is a theist’s issue? Everyone admits there is life from conception, the issue is at what stage of life does the government step in to protect that human life? Some people say at three months, others say six months, and the partial birth abortion advocates say at birth. Abortion is a values issue that atheists and theists must address from a values perspective. Theists values are often the same values as atheists, and the most fundamental value protected under the U.S. Constitution is life. Sure it is less “emotional” to call an unborn child a “fetus”, and pro-choice people prefer to use “fetus” because then you don’t have to face the sad fact that we are killing unborn children. I know atheists who are opposed to abortion. There is no tricky in these two bills. The original bill was inspired by Democrats for Life of America’s 95-10 initiative which was designed to deal with pregnant women. H.R. 605 added family planning which was unnecessary since family planning is already provided under other laws.

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]]> Comment on CFI Formal Comments Submitted by Dave Rice http://cfidc.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/cfi-formal-comments-submitted/#comment-54 Dave Rice Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:14:53 +0000 http://cfidc.wordpress.com/?p=119#comment-54 There is no difference in withholding federal funding for health care providers who refuse to administer treatments under the law based on their religious beliefs, than there is in administering sanctions in any other part of our legal system, whether criminal or civil, traffic or domestic law. We can’t have a country where people can be put in positions of providing government services, only to have them arbitrarily determine what they will or will not do, based on their own personal belief systems. If their beliefs do not allow for them to perform the required services, they always have the option of finding private-sector jobs where they can do what they want. This upcoming legislation that tries to enable this type of discrimination is an abomination of our legal process, and infringes on the rights of those citizens who deserve equal treatment under the law. This legislation MUST NOT BE ALLOWED to be passed. There is no difference in withholding federal funding for health care providers who refuse to administer treatments under the law based on their religious beliefs, than there is in administering sanctions in any other part of our legal system, whether criminal or civil, traffic or domestic law. We can’t have a country where people can be put in positions of providing government services, only to have them arbitrarily determine what they will or will not do, based on their own personal belief systems. If their beliefs do not allow for them to perform the required services, they always have the option of finding private-sector jobs where they can do what they want.

This upcoming legislation that tries to enable this type of discrimination is an abomination of our legal process, and infringes on the rights of those citizens who deserve equal treatment under the law. This legislation MUST NOT BE ALLOWED to be passed.

]]> Comment on U.S.Administration Withholds Contraception from African Countries by cfidc http://cfidc.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/usadministration-withholds-contraception-from-african-countries/#comment-50 cfidc Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:06:50 +0000 http://cfidc.wordpress.com/?p=133#comment-50 The USAID administrator is Henrietta H. Fore. USAID phone number is 202-712-4810 and their website is www.usaid.gov. Thanks for your willingness to help. The USAID administrator is Henrietta H. Fore. USAID phone number is 202-712-4810 and their website is http://www.usaid.gov. Thanks for your willingness to help.

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