Capitolwire: Advocates debate Eichelberger bill to permit doctors and hospitals not to provide contraceptive services

HARRISBURG (Oct. 14) – A Republican-backed bill to allow health care workers and institutions not to provide any service they oppose on moral or religious grounds is either “absolutely imperative” or “unnecessary and potentially harmful to the health of patients,” depending on whom you ask.

At a Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee hearing Tuesday morning, anti-abortion rights and pro-civil liberties advocates offered divergent views of Senate Bill 1255, the Conscientious Objection Act, sponsored by Sen. John Eichelberger, R-Blair.

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