President Obama has moved to lift protection for pro-life health professionals and hospitals against job actions such as loss of employment and frivolous lawsuits for following their moral convictions in refusing to provide abortions.

By law there is a 30-day window to receive public comment on this action. This time period ends April 9.

Please contact the Department of Health and Human Services to express your objection to this action.

You may submit your comments electronically on the Web site www.Regulations.gov (enter 0991-AB49) in the search box or via e-mail to proposedrescission@hhs.gov.

By mail, send one original and two copies of written comments to:

Office of Public Health and Science

Department of Health and Human Services

Attention: Rescission Proposal Comments

Hubert H. Humphrey Building

200 Independence Ave., SW-Room 716G

Washington, D.C. 20201

If you feel, as I do, that no one should be coerced to perform abortion services against their conscience, please object to the rescission of this protective act. We have only a brief time to respond, so do so today.

Nell Murray

Adams County resident