Written by Don Byrd
A bill making its way through the Michigan legislature would provide broad conscience exemptions from paying for or providing health-related services for those with a religious objection. The measure is in part, of course, a response to federal health care legislation requiring insurers to provide contraception. The “Religious Liberty and Moral Conscience Protection Act” would go much further, however.
[The l}egislation …would extend the same legal protections for any medical service such as providing contraception or medical marijuana, or taking someone off life support. Employers and health insurers — not just medical providers — also could opt out of paying for services as a matter of conscience.
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The legislation also would apply to universities and colleges.
You can read Senate Bill 136 here.
