House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says rules are ‘deeply discriminatory and downright deadly’
President Donald Trump chose the National Day of Prayer to announce a new regulation giving health care workers the right to refuse to do medical procedures like abortions.Advancing his anti-abortion agenda, President Donald Trump moved Thursday to protect health care workers who object to procedures like abortion on moral or religious grounds.
San Francisco immediately sued the Trump administration, saying the regulation will undermine access to care. The rule makes no new law and doesn’t go beyond statutes passed under administrations of both political parties, said Roger Severino, head of the office that will enforce it at the Department of Health and Human Services.Rather, the regulation will guarantee that religious and conscience protections already on the books can’t be ignored.
This will make it “so that people do not have to shed their religious beliefs to participate in health care,” said Severino, adding that “certain medical professions such as OB-GYN should not be declared pro-life-free zones.” Sister Carol Keehan, head of the Catholic Health Association, said her group representing church-affiliated hospitals, nursing homes and other providers will stress continued service to “all persons.”
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