1. United States
2. Wash.
3. Letter

I am your constituent and I want you to know that there are many doctors and other health professionals who work in religious facilities and are precluded from discussing or providing needed care for their patients. The care I am discussing is medically accurate and appropriate and yet the facility will punish the provider if they act on their conscience and help the patient. Conscience works both ways - it stops us from doing harm and it motivates us to help others. Current laws on medical conscience only work one way - they shield those who decline to help patients in need with miscarriage management, reproductive care, gender care etc. I want you to help those providers exercise their conscience in service of their patients and in accordance of their oath to server. I want you to build legislation that protects them from workplace retribution when their conscience tells them to provide accurate and medically appropriate care. If you need a reference here is a Washington State bill that addresses conscience for reproductive care, SB 5140 (2021)  Protecting Pregnancy and Miscarriage-Related Care, that could be used as an example. Here is a link to that law, https://doh.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2022-02/600083-SB5140.pdf https://dl-rapidbot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/1/5fac/6ff9/5fac6ff9-98b1-460e-90f5-8dc328e14c79.php