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Swordsmyth
05-02-2019, 10:24 PM
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced a final rule Thursday protecting health care groups and individuals from mandatory provision or participation in services they object to for religious or moral reasons.
The rule promises to (https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2019/05/02/hhs-announces-final-conscience-rule-protecting-health-care-entities-and-individuals.html) “promote and protect the fundamental and unalienable rights of conscience and religious liberty.” The rule protects (https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/final-conscience-rule.pdf) health care providers from mandatory participation in and payment or referral for services like abortion (https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/15/abortion-poll-75-percent/), sterilization and assisted suicide, according to HHS’s statement.

California, Vermont, Washington, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, New Jersey and the District of Columbia have “aid in dying” laws permitting (https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/12/new-jersey-passes-assisted-suicide/) terminally ill patients to commit suicide with the help of a physician.
The administration’s rule also includes protections regarding advanced directives.
“This rule ensures that healthcare entities and professionals won’t be bullied out of the health care field because they decline to participate in actions that violate their conscience, including the taking of human life,” Office for Civil Rights (OCR) Director Roger Severino said in a Thursday statement.
HSS launched the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division (https://www.hhs.gov/conscience/index.html) in January 2018 to “vigorously and effectively enforce existing laws protecting the rights of conscience and religious freedom.” Thursday’s final rule replaces a 2011 rule described as “inadequate” by HHS’s announcement.
“Those who serve our nation’s sick in the health care industry, or who are training to do so, should not be forced to violate their conscience in the process,” March for Life (https://marchforlife.org/) President Jeanne Mancini said in a Thursday statement applauding the rule. “No one should be forced to participate in life-ending procedures like abortion or similar activities that go against their religious beliefs or moral convictions.”


More at: https://truepundit.com/trump-administration-issues-rule-allowing-health-care-providers-to-refuse-services-that-violate-conscience/

Schifference
05-03-2019, 05:04 AM
Moral reasons? Does that mean if you show up at the ER still alive with 14 bullets in you wearing a MAGA hat, the staff can refuse to save you?

oyarde
05-03-2019, 05:58 AM
Moral reasons? Does that mean if you show up at the ER still alive with 14 bullets in you wearing a MAGA hat, the staff can refuse to save you?

My guess is you were not getting saved there anyway .