Biden to scrap rule allowing hospitals,
employers, staff to opt-out of abortions,
trans services
Posted By: Ribicon, 4/20/2022 5:41:43 PM
The Biden administration plans to remove a Trump-era conscience clause that protected medical workers from participating in services like abortions and transgender sex-change treatments. A Health and Human Services spokesperson confirmed to Politico on Tuesday that the agency “has made clear through the unified regulatory agenda that we are in the rulemaking process” to implement the new regulations as early as later this month. That confirms the expectations of Catholic religious liberty advocates and progressive sexual-rights advocates who have battled over the issue of religious conscience ever since Obamacare mandated a decade ago that Catholic schools, hospitals and religious orders pay for contraceptive services in their employee
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Biden to scrap rule allowing hospitals,
employers, staff to opt-out of abortions,
trans services 22 replies
employers, staff to opt-out of abortions,
trans services 22 replies
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You will perform the abortions and transgender surgeries. Might as well since you wore the mask, took as many shots as they demanded, and are en route to eating the bugs and owning nothing, and liking it. All thanks to the Democrat Socialists, aka the Party of Choice.