Forcing Doctors to Perform Abortions... and the crowd cheered.

Obama set to overturn Bush's abortion rule

February 28, 2009 - 8:11am.

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR

President Barack Obama plans to repeal a Bush administration rule that has become a flash point in the debate over a doctor's right not to participate in abortions. The regulation, instituted in the last days of the Bush administration, strengthened job protections for doctors and nurses who refused to participate in abortion procedures.