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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump administrations new religious freedom rule will encourage discrimination in health care
The Trump White House announced a new rule Thursday that overhauls the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) by refocusing its mission protecting the religious freedom of health care providers. The new Conscience and Religious Freedom Division (CRFD) will focus entirely on ensuring providers are allowed to opt out of providing care when they have objections, which has huge implications for patients access to abortion, LGBTQ people, and people living with HIV.
According to drafts released Thursday morning, the CRFD will be responsible for OCRs national conscience and religious freedom program, including enforcement of and compliance with laws protecting conscience and the free exercise of religion and prohibiting coercion and religious discrimination.
The shift will represent the biggest backlash in the pingponging policies over the past few presidential administrations. President Bush had some conscience protections for health care workers, but the Obama administration reversed them, noting that they were being used to justify various forms of discrimination. As Politico notes, this included refusing to provide birth control, refusing treatment for HIV and AIDS, denying fertility treatment to lesbian couples, or not providing ambulance transportation for someone planning to seek an abortion.
https://thinkprogress.org/hhs-religious-freedom-rule-5a7ab6052dab/
The Conscience and Religious Freedom Division, talk about imposing someones beliefs unto the masses, just fuck the first amendment, and fourth amendment
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough
Cattledog
(5,897 posts)and committing adultery. What is going to happen when people who have a different set of beliefs start to refuse service to right-wing evangelicals?
turbinetree
(24,632 posts)but it would go through one ear and out the other, since there is nothing in between them--------------no moral compass
Atticus
(15,124 posts)let's "lay hands on" any doctor, nurse or others employed in healthcare who refuse care to someone who is gay or pregnant and unmarried or married to someone of a different race or "Muslim-looking" or has an old Obama sticker on their car.
I do believe that, yes, the spirit would move me to try to "heal" them of their ignorance. It's what I BELIEVE in, don'tcha know.