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Alabama, LSU take over Top 25 _ again
Alabama coach Nick Saban applauds during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Arkansas in Fayetteville, Ark., Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/April L. Brown)
Alabama coach Nick Saban applauds during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Arkansas in Fayetteville, Ark., Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/April L. Brown)
LSU head coach Les Miles center, sings the LSU alma mater with his daughter Macy Miles, below, and his team, after their NCAA college football game against Idaho in Baton Rouge, La. Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012. LSU won 63-14. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Breaking down the AP college football poll after Week 2 of the regular season.
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MAKING A STATEMENT
Here we go again.
Alabama and LSU are Nos. 1 and 2. It's almost as if last season never ended. The Crimson Tide and Tigers held the top two spots for eight weeks in 2011 before finally playing a rematch of a regular-season game for the BCS title, which Alabama won.
The difference this year is Alabama is No. 1 and LSU is No. 2, instead of vice versa.
Blame Southern California for the latest Southeastern Conference takeover.
USC was preseason No. 1 in a close vote and slipped to No. 2 after Alabama throttled Michigan to start the season. Then on Saturday night, Stanford handed the Trojans their first loss, 21-14 on the Farm.
So we're back where we were last season, waiting for Alabama and LSU to play in the first weekend of November, and wondering if either will be upset along the way.
It doesn't seem likely.
"We have really been fighting against allowing ourselves to accept average," Tide coach Nick Saban said after a 52-0 demolition of beleaguered Arkansas.
The Tide faces Florida Atlantic and Mississippi over the next two weeks, and then takes a week off. After that come road games at Missouri and Tennessee, followed by a visit from No. 23 Mississippi State on Oct. 27.
The big game in Baton Rouge, La., is on Nov. 3.
LSU, which has outscored its opposition 145-37, has played an easier schedule than Alabama to this point. But going forward, its slate is tougher than the Tide's. The Tigers are at Auburn next week, followed by a home game against Towson. Then comes a road trip to No. 14 Florida and a home game against No. 7 South Carolina. Those could be tricky.
A game against Texas A&M and a week off precede the Alabama game. The Tigers finish with home games against Mississippi State and Mississippi and a road game at Arkansas.
And what about another rematch of LSU-Alabama in the title game?
Well, let's get to Round 3 first before we start that again.
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MOVING UP
No. 9 Stanford shot up 12 spots after beating USC for the fourth straight season, and No. 11 Notre Dame rose nine places after dominating Michigan State 20-3 in East Lansing, Mich.
The Cardinal are proving there is life and prosperity after Andrew Luck. The assumption was when the two-time Heisman Trophy runner-up moved on to the NFL, Stanford would slip back into the Pac-12 pack.
Well, it seems as if the Cardinal are going to be a conference contender again. New quarterback Josh Nunes is no Luck, but the foundation of Stanford's success since Jim Harbaugh took over the program in 2007 has been power.
"I have been saying it for years, even before I became head coach: This game isn't about who you play, it is about how you play," said coach David Shaw, who replaced Harbaugh last season.
The Cardinal's running game sputtered in its first two weeks, cranking out only 247 yards total against San Jose State and Duke.
Stepfan Taylor and Stanford looked more like themselves against USC with 202 yards on the ground. On defense, the Cardinal's big and strong front seven led by Trent Murphy and Chase Thomas exposed USC's one offensive weakness ? its line.
Without Luck, Stanford is still a tough and physical team.
Tough and physical are now a way to describe Notre Dame ? for the first time in a long while.
Behind linebacker Manti Te'o and defensive tackle Stephon Tuitt, the Irish smothered the Spartans, allowing 237 total yards, only 50 on the ground.
The Irish and Cardinal meet in South Bend, Ind., on Oct. 13.
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MOVING DOWN
There were signs last week, in No. 13 USC's 42-29 victory against Syracuse at MetLife Stadium, that the Trojans' line play would be a problem.
Even before the season, there were fears that USC's defensive line looked thin and the offensive line less-than-dominant. But there was so much talent and skill on both sides of the ball, including Heisman Trophy favorite Matt Barkley at quarterback, it was easy to overlook potential problems.
"We obviously did not have an answer (for their defense)," Barkley told reporters after the game.
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IN AND OUT
No. 24 Boise State and No. 25 Nebraska, after brief exits, are back in the rankings, and No. 23 Mississippi State is in the Top 25 for the first time in a bit more than a year.
The Bulldogs are 3-0 for the first time since 1999, though getting there was tougher than most probably expected. Mississippi State won 30-24 at Troy on Saturday.
"We jumped into the polls and we did not perform at our best. I hope it's a real motivating factor," Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen said Sunday.
Falling out were Tennessee, BYU and Virginia Tech.
The Hokies suffered maybe the most surprising loss of the weekend, falling 35-17 to previously winless Pittsburgh.
Virginia Tech is unranked for the first time since October 2010, snapping a string of 29 polls.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
Florida State heads into maybe its biggest regular-season game of the year with its best ranking since Oct. 9, 2005.
The Seminoles, coming off a 52-0 victory against Wake Forest, host No. 10 Clemson at Doak Campell Stadium on Saturday in a game that should go a long way to determining who wins the Atlantic Division of the ACC.
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ODDS & ENDS
No. 18 Michigan beat UMass 63-13 and dropped a spot in the polls. Seems odd, but don't take it personally, Wolverines fans. Michigan received 19 more points this week from the media panel, but essentially Stanford and Notre Dame's rises pushed the Wolverines back a spot. Michigan is at Notre Dame on Saturday. ... The other Top 25 matchups this week are No. 15 Kansas State at No. 15 Oklahoma and No. 22 Arizona at No. 3 Oregon. It feels as if the Ducks' season hasn't even started after easy victories against Arkansas State, Fresno State and Tennessee Tech.
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AP Sports Writer Antonio Gonzalez in Stanford, Calif., contributed.
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Garage Door Remotes Add Great Convenience
When you depress the push button to unfasten your garage door, you in all probability just take for granted it will work. After all, it has consistently worked in the past.
The astounding thing is that garage door opening and closing tools have actually gotten progressively more innovative over the last several decades.
There are three entirely different mechanisms that you can utilize to open your garage door. There is the remote, generally made use of from your vehicle. The inside button and the exterior keyless entry.
No longer do people need to drive up to their closed garage door, get out of the vehicle, manually raise the door, get back in the automobile and drive into the garage.
The use of electronics along with limited range, channelized, broadcast frequencies has actually made that process a thing of the past.
Alongside electronics, the progress of low cost electric powered motors allowed the convenience revolution when it pertains to your garage doors. In the case of garage doors, the electric powered motor is installed to the ceiling and linked to the door with a set of chains or belts. The motor triggers the chain or belt which moves the rollers either up or down along the tracks that go from the door and along the sides of it. This is accomplished with the use of pulleys.
Now that you have this great convenience, just how do you make use of it? The opening control gadgets we stated previously in this write-up are either hard wired to the electric powered motor or connected with a radio signal. The hardwired button is for your advantage when you are in your residence. It is directly coupled to the motor, with electrical wiring, you can position it by your door from the house or anyplace else in your home or maybe in the garage itself.
You set the remote to the same frequency of the motor then put it on your visor. New design vehicles come with built-in garage door remotes that can be programmed to any door.
The earliest remotes had one button. Today, they normally have three buttons so you can program each button for a different door. Say you have a detached garage that has a set up garage door opener. Instead of having a lot of remotes, you can use the same one.
As outlined earlier, autos are coming standard with this exact same remote modern technology created into the car. So, now you can program these buttons for each door and never have to worry that the remote's battery is dead or that you misplaced the remote in another car.
If you do not have your remote, but you wish access to your garage, there is one more tool that gives you accessibility to your house. Usually installed on your door frame, but outside your door, you can have a keypad entry. This allows you to choose a 4 digit PIN. When you enter your PIN, your door opens.
What if the power to your residence is out? Through a garage door opener with a battery back-up system, you can still open your garage door using the opener.
Advanced openers are now able to control the lights inside your home along with the garage light. When you get back home, you can push the remote button in your vehicle and switch on all the lights in you house. You can also set it to turn on the TV or any other electrical tool.
Improvements in the electronics connected with garage doors continue to deliver us with the most convenient use of our garage and accessibility to our homes. Who knows what they will consider next? Just wait and see.
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Friday, September 14, 2012
Super Heroes Gather In Gotham for Rare Recognition of Their Work To Protect Us All
America's Top Hero Dogs, National Humanitarian Medal Winner, SAG-AFTRA and Celebrities Turn Out to Receive Awards from American Humane Association
Surprise Donation Ensures Future Protection for Thousands of Children and Animals
NEW YORK, Sept.?14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Sporting everything from capes to tuxedos to collars, dozens of genuine super heroes from around the country and around the world turned out Wednesday night at ? where else? ? Gotham Hall in New York City to receive recognition and thanks from American Humane Association and a grateful world for their heroic work in protecting all of us, especially children and animals.
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Eight courageous canines were honored as finalists in the annual American Humane Association Hero Dog Awards? for saving lives, comforting the ill, and serving their country, in a hero-filled event, "Super Heroes Among Us," hosted by Carson Kressley. The Hero Dog Awards, which will take place October 6 in Los Angeles, are presented by the Lois Pope LIFE Foundation and produced by Emmy? award-winning MRB Productions, will air as a 90-minute special on Hallmark Channel November 8, 2012 at 8:00 pm ET/PT. The program will air as part of Hallmark Channel's Pet Project, the network's cross-platform campaign designed to celebrate the joy and enrichment animals bring to our lives.
American Humane Association also presented the organization's highest honor, its coveted National Humanitarian Medal to Masaaki Tanaka, Deputy President, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, for working with American Humane Association to help thousands of animals in desperate need following the disastrous earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown in Japan last year.
"Without his vital help, there would have been much more despair ? and much less hope ? for thousands of frightened, hungry, and homeless animals," said American Humane Association President and CEO Dr. Robin Ganzert. "Because of his intervention, critically needed support of the animals displaced and left behind when that cataclysm occurred, will, with our help, go on for the foreseeable future."
Surprise Announcement Ensures Protection Far Into Future
Mrs. Lois Pope, a longtime benefactor and presenting sponsor of the American Humane Association Hero Dog Awards, made a surprise announcement of a gift to expand the charity's renowned Red Star Rescue fleet in South Florida, one of the most storm-ravaged areas of the country, ensuring that when disasters strike, our children and animals will not be forgotten.
"Because of Lois Pope, even more in desperate need will find hope, help and healing," said Dr. ?Ganzert. "Thank you for extending your compassion and protection to millions of children and animals who rely on powerful protectors to keep them safe."
And the Envelope for Best Friend to Animals Goes to?.
American Humane Association also honored a group that has helped them protect more than a million animals throughout the years ? SAG-AFTRA, which helps through its two industry cooperative funds to underwrite the charity's famous "No Animals Were Harmed?" certification program to keep animal actors safe. "We have a 99.98 percent safety rate for animals on our sets and have protected so many of America's most beloved non-human stars of the small and silver screen," said Dr. Ganzert. "But we couldn't have done it alone.? We are so fortunate to have a partner in SAG-AFTRA that values all the actors who add so much joy, drama, and pathos to our culture and to our lives."
Said SAG-AFTRA Co-President Roberta Reardon upon acceptance of the award, "Countless SAG-AFTRA actors have enjoyed terrific working relationships with animals on set. But no matter how wonderful the role or how meaningful the experience, what makes it work is American Humane Association and their efforts to ensure that on-set human-animal interaction is safe and enjoyable for all."
Celebrities, VIPs and Animal Advocates Turn Out to Support American Humane Association
In addition to the honorees of the evening, dozens of celebrities, VIPs, and animal advocates who have been longtime heroes to children and animals showed up to show their support. Carson Kressley, host of last year's Hero Dog Awards, came to lead "Super Heroes Among Us." Jake T. Austin, star of "Wizards of Waverly Place," ?"New Year's Eve," and the upcoming "Huckleberry Finn," was a special guest presenter. Bill Abbott, President and CEO of Crown Family Networks, which through its Hallmark Channel broadcasts the Hero Dog Awards, talked about the importance of rescue groups. Filmmaker Kenn Bell premiered his newest creation, "The Animals of Fukushima," showing the rescue work of American Humane Association and Masa Tanaka to the rapt audience. Animal advocates and American Humane Association National Ambassadors Prince Lorenzo Borghese and Tinsley Mortimer added gravitas and glitter to the proceedings, as did a host of top society names including Herme de Wyman Miro, president of The International Society of Palm Beach and AHA board member Suzi Goldsmith.
Corporate sponsors and supporters included State Farm, which trains arson dogs to protect our communities and sponsored the Law Enforcement/Arson category of the Hero Dog Awards; Pfizer Animal Health, which is behind AHA's research study to help children with cancer through animal-assisted therapy and sponsored the Therapy Dog category of the Hero Dog Awards; Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ and the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group; Trupanion, which sponsored the Service Dogs category of the Hero Dog Awards; Bloomberg; Coastal Pet Products; Cru Vin Dogs Wine Group, which is donating a percentage of every bottle of its commemorative wine honoring last year's top American Hero Dog Roselle to American Humane Association; renowned animal artist Leslie Priggen, who donated a commission of a special pet portrait; MRB Productions; and Jet Blue, the official air carrier of the Hero Dog Awards.
"The world can sometimes seem like a dark and scary place, especially for children and animals," said Dr. Ganzert. "In this sometimes dangerous and troubling world, it's good to know there are so many super heroes ready to protect and defend those in the most critical need.? Surrounded by all of you, I feel safer already."
The 2012 American Humane Association Hero Dog Awards finalists
MILITARY DOG CATEGORY
Winner: GABE (Columbia, SC) ? Retired MWD Sgt. Gabe has served our great country since 2006 when he first reported for duty. From training in Ft. Lewis, WA to completing over 210 combat missions with 26 explosive and weapons finds in Iraq, MWD Sgt. Gabe still made time throughout the day to bring love and joy to his comrades. Since retiring in 2009, MWD Sgt. Gabe has earned over 40 awards and coins of excellence for his heroic work and spends his free time educating children on the value of respect and staying in school. (Charity Partner: The United States War Dog Association, Inc.)
EMERGING HERO CATEGORY
Winner: DANIEL (Nutley, NJ) ? Daniel, a beagle from an Alabama shelter on "death row," did the unimaginable in 2011 when he survived the most inhumane form of euthanasia, the gas chamber. Since adopted by his loving guardian, Joe Dwyer, Daniel the "Miracle Beagle" has used his second chance at life as an advocate for shelter adoptions and humane euthanasia legislation across the United States. (Charity Partner: The Pine Street Foundation).
GUIDE DOG CATEGORY
Winner: TABITHA (South Bend, IN) ? Guide dog Tabitha is more than just a guide dog to her former guardian, Ann Drake, who lost her sight as an adult. Tabitha guided Ann back to a place within herself where she found the confidence that she had lost and overcame the fears of her new life. With Tabitha by her side, Ann went on to complete her undergraduate and graduate studies. (Charity Partner: Leader Dogs for the Blind).
LAW ENFORCEMENT/ARSON DOG CATEGORY, sponsored by State Farm
Winner: JYNX (Shillington, PA) ? On the evening of June 29, 2011, Law Enforcement-Arson K-9 Jynx desperately worked to try and pull his guardian Sgt.Kyle Pagerly and another officer out of harm's way as a crime suspect opened fire during a routine warrant delivery. 28-year-old Sgt. Pagerly was killed in the line of duty leaving behind his pregnant wife. If not for the swift and heroic efforts of K-9 Jynx, more officers would have lost their lives that night. (Charity Partner: K9s4COPs).
HEARING DOG CATEGORY, sponsored by MRB Productions
Winner: TATIANA II (Plantation, FL) -- Hearing dog, Tatiana II, was matched with handler Cristina Saint-Blancard in 2011 as her hearing dog but quickly turned into her life-saving hero. Cristina suffers from asthma which is exacerbated by frequent ear infections and one night found herself struggling for breath and soon completely without breath. Tatiana II was quick to notice something was wrong and ran into the next room to alert Cristina's family. If not for Tatiana II that night, Cristina would not have gone on to graduate from Purdue University last December with Tatiana II by her side. (Charity Partner: Dogs for the Deaf).
SEARCH AND RESCUE DOG CATEGORY
Winner: SOOT (Charleston, WV) ? West Virginia Search and Rescue K-9 Soot, didn't know he had a big job ahead of him when he was adopted by Lorraine Burdette.? Soot's training in air scent, scent discrimination, and certified search and rescue wilderness training gave him the tools he needed to rescue a lost 78-year-old diabetic hunter lost in the wilderness on a cold December morning. (Charity Partner: The Sage Foundation for Dogs Who Serve).
SERVICE DOG CATEGORY, sponsored by Trupanion
Winner: HOLLY (Magna, UT) ? Seizure alert Service Dog Holly never takes her attention away from her guardian, Shanna Wilkinson, who suffers from epileptic seizures. With Holly by her side, Shanna is able to embrace all of life's gifts and challenges without fear. Together they travel and together they teach elementary students the importance of Service Dogs. (Charity Partner: International Association of Assistance Dog Partners).
THERAPY DOG CATEGORY, sponsored by Pfizer Animal Health
Winner: STELLA (Mt. Kisco, NY) ? Therapy Dog Stella and her guardian Marissa Levy, dedicate their time to bringing love and joy to the residents at Richmond Community Services, a not-for-profit organization that cares for developmentally disabled children and adults. Stella is unfazed by disabilities and diseases ? befriending and with time, unconditionally loving all she meets. Stella is the sunshine that beats the cloudy days for the residents and for that they are so appreciative. (Charity Partner: Angel On A Leash).
LOIS POPE AND THE LOIS POPE LIFE FOUNDATION
Lois Pope is one of America's leading philanthropists and humanitarians.? Through her various charitable mechanisms, including the Lois Pope LIFE Foundation, Inc., she is devoted to saving lives, helping people help themselves, improving the quality of life for families in need and encouraging young Americans to become leaders by helping others.? Her foundations also provide awards for medical research, college scholarships, humanitarian relief, the performing arts, and animal welfare.? Among the many organizations that benefit from her leadership are the American Humane Association; the Disabled Veterans' LIFE Memorial Foundation, which she founded to spearhead the development of the American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial, the nation's first and only permanent public tribute to the three million living disabled American veterans and the thousands who have died; the University of Miami, where her major contribution endowed the Lois Pope LIFE Center, the top catastrophic neurological research facility in the world and home to the renowned Miami Project to Cure Paralysis;? Leaders in Furthering Education, which has provided a summer camp experience for more than 15,000 disadvantaged and special needs children, as well as college scholarship support to dozens of disadvantaged high school students who aspire to careers as physicians/researchers; Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel's Red Cross, for new ambulances; and the Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League for a new mobile pet adoption unit.
HALLMARK CHANNEL
Hallmark Channel, owned and operated by Crown Media Holdings, Inc., is a 24-hour basic cable network that provides a diverse slate of high-quality entertainment programming available in high definition (HD) and standard definition (SD) to a national audience of over 87 million subscribers. The top-tier program service is distributed through approximately 5,500 cable systems and communities as well as direct-to-home satellite services across the country. Hallmark Channel is the nation's leading destination for quality family programming with an ambitious slate of original TV movies and specials, as well as some of television's most beloved sitcoms and series, including The Golden Girls, Frasier, Little House on the Prairie, and The Waltons. Since 2010, Hallmark Channel has also been home to original daytime lifestyle programming and is debuting two new daily series, Home & Family and Marie, on October 1, 2012. Hallmark Channel's sibling network is Hallmark Movie Channel, also available in HD and SD, which focuses on family-friendly movies with a mix of classic theatrical films, presentations from the acclaimed Hallmark Hall of Fame library, original Hallmark Channel movies and special events. For more information, please visit www.hallmarkchannelpress.com
HALLMARK CHANNEL'S PET PROJECT
Hallmark Channel's Pet Project is a multi-faceted initiative devoted to celebrating pets and the incredible joy and enrichment they bring to our lives. To carry out our mission, we'll be bringing you compelling original programming, social media outreach, and a resource-rich website. Through public service announcements, local grass-roots events, and strategic partnerships with such national non-profit organizations as American Humane Association and PetSmart Charities, Hallmark Channel's Pet Project also aims to shine a spotlight on this country's epidemic of pet homelessness and provide the public with the information and resources they need to find their new best friend. For more information, please visit http://www.hallmarkchannel.com/petproject
MRB PRODUCTIONS
MRB's feature department is in post-production on the psychological thriller Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes, starring Jessica Biel and Alfred Molina, while MRB's political activism biopic, starring Jason Biggs, is currently in theaters. Emmy award winning MRB recently won a Webby for The Confession, starring Kiefer Sutherland. In Television, MRB has a decade of experience producing the pre-taped segments and VIP program for ESPN's ESPY Awards, in addition to producing the inaugural Hero Dog Awards for the Hallmark Channel. Additional TV projects include two seasons of the mockumentary comedy show Free Radio on VH1 and Comedy Central. In the video game space, MRB partners with Ubisoft on the Just Dance Kids series. MRB's commercial repertoire includes a longstanding relationship with Mattel and collaborations with Periera & O'Dell, Saatchi & Saatchi, and Publicis, for clients such as Samsung, NHL, Smirnoff, Wal-Mart, and University of Phoenix.
AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION
American Humane Association is the country's first national humane organization and the only one dedicated to protecting both children and animals. Since 1877 American Humane Association has been at the forefront of virtually every major advance in protecting our most vulnerable from cruelty, abuse and neglect. Today we're also leading the way in understanding the human-animal bond and its role in therapy, medicine and society. American Humane Association reaches millions of people every day through groundbreaking research, education, training and services that span a wide network of organizations, agencies and businesses. You can help make a difference, too. Visit American Humane Association at www.americanhumane.org today.
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Doctors who perform abortions are compelled by conscience, just like those who refuse
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Ann Arbor, Mich. Exercising conscience in healthcare is usually defined as refusing to provide contested services, like abortion. But in an article to be published Sept. 13 in the New England Journal of Medicine, a University of Michigan faculty member says doctors can be "conscientious" providers of abortion.
Lisa Harris, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Michigan Health System, highlights both historical and contemporary evidence that conscience motivates abortion provision. She cites sociologist Carole Joffe's study that shows skilled mainstream doctors offered safe, compassionate care before Roe v. Wade, risking fines, imprisonment and loss of medical license.
"They did so because the beliefs that mattered most to them compelled it. They saw women die from self-inducted abortion and from abortions performed by unskilled providers," Harris writes.
Harris says contemporary abortion providers are motivated by conscience as well: "Though today abortion providers work within the law, they still have much to lose, facing stigma, marginalization within medicine, harassment and the threat of (or actual) physical harm..However doctors continue to offer abortion care because deeply-held, core ethical beliefs compel them."
There are legal, clinical and ethical consequences of the false dichotomization of conscience and abortion provision, she says. Harris writes that federal and state laws continue to protect only conscience-based refusals to perform or refer for abortion, offering minimal legal protection for conscience-based abortion provision.
In addition, equating conscience with only the refusal to perform abortion continues to stigmatize physicians who are abortion providers.
"If physicians who offer abortion don't have a legitimate claim to act in 'good conscience,' as do their counterparts who oppose abortion, then the implication is that they act in 'bad conscience' or lack conscience altogether," Harris writes.
Harris says bioethicists have focused on moral claims to refuse care provision, largely neglecting that, as she writes, "moral integrity can be injured as much by not performing an action required by one's core beliefs as by performing an action that contradicts those beliefs."
Harris acknowledges that those who oppose abortion will likely argue that abortion providers have motivations other than conscience. While she disagrees, she says this highlights the importance of distinguishing claims of conscience from other types of claims:
"Certainly, if abortion providers' conscience-based claims require scrutiny, so do conscience-based refusals, to ensure that refusals are indeed motivated by conscience and not by political beliefs, stigma, habit erroneous understanding of medical evidence or other factors."
In addition to calling for recognition of "conscientious provision" of care, Harris calls for a standard curriculum and a standard of care for conscientious refusals.
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U-M bioethicist, gynecologist says providers have moral reasons for offering abortions, in essay published in New England Journal of Medicine
Ann Arbor, Mich. Exercising conscience in healthcare is usually defined as refusing to provide contested services, like abortion. But in an article to be published Sept. 13 in the New England Journal of Medicine, a University of Michigan faculty member says doctors can be "conscientious" providers of abortion.
Lisa Harris, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Michigan Health System, highlights both historical and contemporary evidence that conscience motivates abortion provision. She cites sociologist Carole Joffe's study that shows skilled mainstream doctors offered safe, compassionate care before Roe v. Wade, risking fines, imprisonment and loss of medical license.
"They did so because the beliefs that mattered most to them compelled it. They saw women die from self-inducted abortion and from abortions performed by unskilled providers," Harris writes.
Harris says contemporary abortion providers are motivated by conscience as well: "Though today abortion providers work within the law, they still have much to lose, facing stigma, marginalization within medicine, harassment and the threat of (or actual) physical harm..However doctors continue to offer abortion care because deeply-held, core ethical beliefs compel them."
There are legal, clinical and ethical consequences of the false dichotomization of conscience and abortion provision, she says. Harris writes that federal and state laws continue to protect only conscience-based refusals to perform or refer for abortion, offering minimal legal protection for conscience-based abortion provision.
In addition, equating conscience with only the refusal to perform abortion continues to stigmatize physicians who are abortion providers.
"If physicians who offer abortion don't have a legitimate claim to act in 'good conscience,' as do their counterparts who oppose abortion, then the implication is that they act in 'bad conscience' or lack conscience altogether," Harris writes.
Harris says bioethicists have focused on moral claims to refuse care provision, largely neglecting that, as she writes, "moral integrity can be injured as much by not performing an action required by one's core beliefs as by performing an action that contradicts those beliefs."
Harris acknowledges that those who oppose abortion will likely argue that abortion providers have motivations other than conscience. While she disagrees, she says this highlights the importance of distinguishing claims of conscience from other types of claims:
"Certainly, if abortion providers' conscience-based claims require scrutiny, so do conscience-based refusals, to ensure that refusals are indeed motivated by conscience and not by political beliefs, stigma, habit erroneous understanding of medical evidence or other factors."
In addition to calling for recognition of "conscientious provision" of care, Harris calls for a standard curriculum and a standard of care for conscientious refusals.
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Journal reference: New England Journal of Medicine, N ENGL J MED 367; 11
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Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-09/uomh-dwp091312.php
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