Biden Administration to remove Trump's protections for freedom of conscience for doctors and healthcare workers

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) submitted a proposed rulemaking to undo protections the Trump Administration put in place so that doctors and healthcare workers could not be forced to perform abortions against their conscience. Secretary Xabier Becerra justified this initiative to strengthen "protections for people with religious or moral objections while ensuring access to care for all in accordance with the law."

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In a statement, the Department announced the so-called Safeguarding of Conscience Rights protected by federal law. This rule"proposes to reinstate the old process for handling conscience-based complaints and provide additional safeguards to protect against discrimination on the basis of conscience and religion."

"Protecting against discrimination."

In 2019, the Trump Administration passed a rule that it would withhold federal funds from any health care facility that forced its workers to perform any type of intervention contrary to their religious beliefs or conscience. Among the services contemplated were abortions, contraception, gender affirmation or sterilizations, according to

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According to Secretary Becerra, Trump's rule only took into account the rights of physicians and healthcare providers, forgetting, he said, those of patients. "No one should be discriminated against because of their religious or moral beliefs, especially when seeking or providing assistance. The proposed rule strengthens protections for people with religious or moral objections, while ensuring access to care for all in accordance with the law," he said in the press release.

Democrat fixation with abortion

The director of the Office for Civil Rights, Melanie Fontes Rainer, expressed herself along the same lines: "Protecting the rights of conscience and enforcing the law to combat religious discrimination is fundamental. Today's proposed rule would strengthen these protections and reinforce our longstanding process for handling such conscientious and faith-based objections. It would also take steps to help ensure that people are aware of their rights."

Since the reversal of Roe Vs. Roe by the Supreme Court, abortion has become the great obsession of the Democratic Party, which even made it its electoral ticket for the November midterms.