TIf you are a medical professional providing reproductive care and counseling, you are likely well aware of the risks you face from new laws limiting access to abortions and related information and services. Your license and employment may be at risk. Let the LLG National Law Group’s premier license defense attorneys help you invoke your legal rights to practice your medical profession in good conscience.
New Bill Seeks to Protect Medical Providers
The Connecticut legislature is considering a bill that would protect medical providers who share information about access to reproductive care. A media report on the new bill highlights how the bill responds to new threats against reproductive care providers who share information on abortion services. State legislatures across the country have restricted access to abortion services. Employers and licensing boards may construe those restrictions to prevent medical providers from sharing information about lawful reproductive care provided in other states, placing those medical professionals’ licenses and employment at risk.
The Bill’s Particulars
The new Connecticut bill, if enacted into law, would guarantee those medical providers the right to exercise their conscience, when sharing information about lawful abortion services in other states. Employers, including religious hospitals not providing abortion counseling or services, would be unable to retaliate against the medical providers sharing that information. The bill would also prohibit the state’s medical licensing authorities from taking into account licensing action in other states against those providers who follow their consciences.
Reciprocal Conscience Rights
Courts and legislatures have long worked to protect the conscience rights of medical providers who refuse on religious and related grounds to provide abortion counseling or services. The new Connecticut bill seeks to turn those so-called negative conscience rights into positive rights to provide abortion information on reciprocal conscience grounds. Medical providers refusing abortion services and counseling, and providers offering abortion services and counseling, have reciprocal rights and conscience interests. The new bill, if enacted into law, would recognize those reciprocal rights and interests.
Defending Your Conscience Rights
The above bill indicates that you may have certain legal rights and interests that protect you when you face employment or licensing issues over the exercise of your conscience. Our attorneys can assist you through the license investigation process to ensure that you have the best opportunity to retain your professional license free of any discipline. We can also help you navigate your employer’s grievance procedures to ensure that your employer respects your legal rights and interests, and that you preserve your job, career, reputation, and income.
Premier License Defense for Reproductive Care Professionals
If you are a medical professional providing reproductive care and counseling, our offices across the country offer premier attorneys to handle your professional license defense and employment issues. It is important that you call us as soon as you encounter an employment or licensing problem. Call 833.536.8652 now for the representation you need for your employment and license defense issues relating to reproductive care.