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turbinetree

(24,632 posts)
Thu Jan 18, 2018, 11:46 AM Jan 2018

Trump 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 OCR’s 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


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Trump administrations new religious freedom rule will encourage discrimination in health care (Original Post) turbinetree Jan 2018 OP
Can a Dr. refuse to treat Trump for the sin of gluttony? Cattledog Jan 2018 #1
That mindem Jan 2018 #2
You know, that's a good question, he can warn him of his sin of gluttony turbinetree Jan 2018 #3
Since they are hanging their bigotry on religion, let's go with that: Atticus Jan 2018 #4

mindem

(1,580 posts)
2. That
Thu Jan 18, 2018, 12:33 PM
Jan 2018

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)
3. You know, that's a good question, he can warn him of his sin of gluttony
Thu Jan 18, 2018, 12:33 PM
Jan 2018

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)
4. Since they are hanging their bigotry on religion, let's go with that:
Thu Jan 18, 2018, 01:00 PM
Jan 2018

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.

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