Loading ...Biden admin moving to strip conscience rights from medical professionals
A proposed rule from the Biden administration ‘would abandon health care professionals to being forced to perform medical procedures that directly violate their religious beliefs or risk losing their jobs,’ ADF Senior Counsel Matt Bowman warned.
The White House regulatory affairs office has published a placeholder for a “Rescission of the Regulation” of the “Protecting Statutory Conscience Rights in Health Care; Delegations of Authority” rule finalized under the Trump administration in 2019.
That regulation provides conscience protections for professionals who do not want to engage in “abortion, sterilization, and certain other health services,” “assisted suicide, euthanasia, or mercy killing,” and for “managed care organizations with moral or religious objections to counseling or referral for certain services.”