Obama administration vs. doctors' consciences

As predicted, the Obama administration is moving to reverse a Bush decision allowing doctors and other health care workers whose consciences prohibit their advising patients in such a way as to facilitate the option of abortion from following their consciences.

It should be noted, of course, that such convictions on the part of health care workers need not, in fact, be religious. Nevertheless, the administration is seeking to force individuals not simply to refer those seeking abortions to others, but to compromise their consciences.

This from an administration which tries to present itself as one aiming to heal our deep cultural and political divisions.