January 26, 2018 | The New York Times

Protecting Conscientious Providers of Health Care

Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services announced a new Conscience and Religious Freedom Division in its Office of Civil Rights. Pointing to what this administration views as insufficient enforcement of 25 existing federal laws protecting health care workers’s conscience, the department seeks to ensure that no one is “compelled to participate in procedures such as abortion, sterilization and assisted suicide when it would violate their religious beliefs or moral convictions.” 

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