Kentucky doctors could refuse care based on their ‘conscience’ under bill passing Senate

Kentucky doctors could refuse care based on their ‘conscience’ under bill passing Senate

Sen. Donald Douglas, a Republican from Nicholasville, presents his bill allowing health care providers to deny services that don't follow their conscience in a Kentucky Senate committee. (David Hargis / LRC)Health care providers would be allowed to refuse any non-emergency service that violates their conscience, defined as a person or institution’s “sincerely held religious, moral or ethical principles" under legislation that passed the Kentucky…