The Bush administration’s proposal to expand health workers’ right to avoid participating in performing abortions advanced this week, according to ProPublica.org (a non-profit investigative reporting site that deserves to be checked regularly).While the article has some of the buzzwords we journalists use to get a certain point across (“a controversial midnight regulation”), it gives an evenhanded account of what is, well, a controversial midnight regulation.Now if the Bush administration would only expand its respect for conscience into other areas … for example, the hundreds of soldiers who have said conscience forbids them from serving in the war in Iraq.