Bush administration planning to announce 'conscience' rule
The Bush administration is planning to announce a broad new ``right of conscience'' rule permitting medical centers, doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other health-care workers to refuse to participate in any procedure they find morally objectionable, including abortion and possibly even artificial insemination and birth control.
President Bush will issue an executive order Jan. 29 requiring agencies to ignore any earmarks in authorization bills or committee reports unless they are debated in the open by Congress and included in a law.