Home Bioethics At-A-Glance Legislation Litigation Media & Education About BDF BDF Store Get Involved! Sign Up For The BDFund Newsletter! Learn the Human Rights Answers! Click here to sign up for our FREE e-report. Buzz Letter to DHHS on Healthcare Rights of Conscience Regs BDF Comment on Conscience Regs Over the years, the so-called “right to choose” has increasingly become the “right to coerce.” As attorneys, BDF has been contacted by medical students, physicians, pharmacists and scientists who have had to face discrimination and/or threatened dismissal due to their conscientious objection to participating in practices that destroy human life. Click here to see the comment filed by BDF in support of the Bush administration's proposed regulations that would designate the HHS Office for Civil Rights as the entity to receive complaints of discrimination by federally funded healthcare providers. BDF's Nikolas T. Nikas is available to consult with physicians who seek to enforce existing conscience protections, and legislators who seek to draft needed state protections Copyright 2010 - Bioethics Defense Fund. Permission granted for unlimited use. Credit required. For more information, contact us at info@bdfund.org or use our contact form.