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Refusal clauses can permit a broad range of individuals and institutions – including hospitals, hospital employees, health-care providers, and insurers – to refuse to provide, pay for, counsel about, or even refer for medical treatment.
The Federal Refusal Clause could:
- Give health-care corporations license to gag their doctors and thus undermine the doctor-patient relationship.
- Override federal guidelines that ensure women receive referrals when requesting information about all their medical options.
- Restrict low-income women’s access to necessary reproductive-health care and jeopardize the lives of women.
- Impinge upon states’ ability to protect women’s health and cost states billions of dollars through the loss of all health, education and labor-related funds if it violates the federal refusal clause.
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