right to health & freedom of belief

The WP reports on plans by the Bush administration in the United States of America to protect doctors, nurses and other health-care workers from having to perform services, which violate their personal beliefs, such as abortions. Those hospitals and other medial institutions, which refuse to accommodate personnel who refuse to perform services that they object to for personal reasons, could see their (public) funding withdrawn. 

A similar discussion has been underway in Slovakia, one of the few countries that has a far reaching concordat with the Vatican.