Prometheus 6

Picture this. A guy applies for a job as a loan originator in a commercial bank. He's intelligent, personable, knowledgeable of the industry...all in all a wonderful fit for the job. He starts work, turns in the paperwork for his first loan and his boss notices (right away, too) that the loan charges no interest. When asked what the fuck is his problem he say his religion forbids him to charge interest. You think he'd make it back to his desk before being fired?

If you apply for a job, you must actually be able to do the job, and that goes beyond physical limitations. Choosing not to do the legitimate work of the organization that pays your salary is a firing offense everywhere.

Bush would change that. In a way, no surprise since the people he himself hired have proven to be remarkably inept, their greatest qualification being loyalty to the rhetoric. Makes sense he'd try to get that in place nationwide.

Abortion Proposal Sets Condition on Aid
By ROBERT PEAR

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration wants to require all recipients of aid under federal health programs to certify that they will not refuse to hire nurses and other providers who object to abortion and even certain types of birth control.

Under the draft of a proposed rule, hospitals, clinics, researchers and medical schools would have to sign “written certifications” as a prerequisite to getting money under any program run by the Department of Health and Human Services.

Such certification would also be required of state and local governments, forbidden to discriminate, in areas like grant-making, against hospitals and other institutions that have policies against providing abortion.

The proposal, which circulated in the department on Monday, says the new requirement is needed to ensure that federal money does not “support morally coercive or discriminatory practices or policies in violation of federal law.” The administration said Congress had passed a number of laws to ensure that doctors, hospitals and health plans would not be forced to perform abortions.

In the proposal, obtained by The New York Times, the administration says it could cut off federal aid to individuals or entities that discriminate against people who object to abortion on the basis of “religious beliefs or moral convictions.”

The proposal defines abortion as follows: “any of the various procedures — including the prescription, dispensing and administration of any drug or the performance of any procedure or any other action — that results in the termination of the life of a human being in utero between conception and natural birth, whether before or after implantation.”