Vanderbilt University Requires Nursing Students to do Abortions…
That’s a big no-no when you’re on the receiving end of $300 million in federal tax dollars each year.
Vanderbilt University is the subject of a federal complaint filed today by officials with the Alliance Defense Fund over requiring nursing students to participate in abortions.
ADF, a pro-life legal group, filed the complaint with the Department of Health and Human Services saying it illegally forces the students to do the abortions despite receiving $300 million in federal tax dollars each year. Federal law prohibits grant recipients from forcing students or health care workers to participate in abortions contrary to their religious beliefs or moral convictions.
The complaint was filed on behalf of a fourth-year nursing student at another university who wants to apply to Vanderbilt’s nurse residency program but won’t do so because of the abortion policy. She says Vanderbilt admission forms require her to promise to participate in abortions.
ADF Legal Counsel Matt Bowman commented on the case and said, “Christians and other pro-life members of the medical community shouldn’t be forced to participate in abortions to pursue their profession.”
“People enter the medical profession to protect and heal the helpless. Federal law protects them from being required to kill the helpless. The law clearly states that grant recipients cannot accept taxpayer dollars and require health care workers to participate in abortions, which is precisely what Vanderbilt is doing,” Bowman added.
The nurse residency application the nursing program at Vanderbilt uses clearly requires the abortion pledge, and goes as far as encouraging nursing candidates to pursue other vocational goals if they refuse to participate in abortions.
“If you are chosen for the Nurse Residency Program in the Women’s Health track, you will be expected to care for women undergoing termination of pregnancy. Procedures performed in the Labor and Delivery unit include…terminations of pregnancy,” it states. “If you feel you cannot provide care to women during this type of event, we encourage you to apply to a different track of the Nurse Residency Program to explore opportunities that may best fit your skills and career goals.”
HT: Fox Nation
Posted by ZIP on Wednesday, January 12, 2011, at 9:00 am | 
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The war against Christianity continues… (ie the discrimination against Christians in the Medical Field)
Soon all there will be working in the Hospitals in America will be the Jack Kevorkians of the world.
Well, at least they don’t force them to HAVE abortions. Or is that a rule too?
Need an administration change at Vandy.
Alums also might want to think twice about donating any money. A boycot there would change policy real quick.
Institutionalized academic murder.
Wake up, parents, you’re getting a very poor return on your education investment. Really.
Hope this hurts Vandy where it would hurt the most…the wallet.
I am in college right now and plan to go into the nursing program but if they tried this I would definatly find another school or change my career path. There is no way I could EVER participate in an abortion.
I have been a nurse in a hospital surgical dept for over 25 years and i guess I see this a little differently. Nurses must be able to provide nursing care to all without prejudice. We must also provide nursing care to prisoners, some who have committed despicable crimes. Nurses cannot pick and choose our patients, we must treat everyone with compassion and dignity. Believe me, it is the hardest part of the job at times, but the most important part of the profession.
I don’t see the equivalence. Treating a convict is basic human compassion. Aborting an innocent baby is not. Apples and bowling balls…
And what if that convict had murdered hundreds of innocents? I have never heard of a nurse being required to PERFORM and abortion, only to take care of the patient. Sigh, I knew my comment would not be understood.
A Quote from Dr. James Montgomery Boice : What happens if we become Secularists (at this point), where God is eliminated from the Universe, so that the Cosmos is all that IS or, ever WAS or, ever WILL BE? If you put God out of the picture, there’s no God to look up to!! And the only way we have to look to is down. And when we look down we see the animals and we say, “That’s what we ARE, why we are just Higher Animals!”. And so we begin to behave like animals.
(Source: http://mrc.christianity.com/players/?sc=bsh&tg=d5506fd4-7739-4372-ba86-111420a64bbf&pf=audio&custom=1
and
http://mrc.christianity.com/players/?sc=bsh&tg=19039dbb-38f1-4ed0-a691-86938c839354&pf=audio&custom=1)
Isn’t this what America has become? What is the logical conclusion to this “belief”? Total Inhumanity, not only to the unborn, but to those who protest saying, “we are created in the image of God and have value only because God has given us worth”. Therefore, it isn’t surprising that the Laws of the Land are changing to reflect this inhuman belief system. I once heard it said in a speech by a politician here where I live that, “The Laws of the Land are based on the “Common Beliefs” of the people of that Land”. America has changed and in a horrible way. Ironically, those who have such inhumane beliefs will become the future victims of those whom they are currently indoctrinating! The loss of human rights doesn’t stop with those in the womb, we can plainly see that Christians are being given the same status as those without human rights as well and are being discriminated against in the work place and Educational System.
Despicable disgrace.