The Biden administration will largely undo a Trump-era rule that boosted the rights of medical workers to refuse to perform abortions or other services that conflicted with their religious or moral beliefs.
The final rule released Tuesday partially rescinds the Trump administration’s 2019 policy that would have stripped federal funding from health facilities that required workers to provide any service they objected to, such as abortions, contraception, gender-affirming care and sterilization.
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The move comes as many Republican-led states have enacted abortion bans in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. An increasing number of states have also put limits or bans on gender-affirming care for minors.
Good. Medical professionals make an oath to provide healthcare and to treat their patients. They should not be able to break that oath due to a hazy gray line defined from their personal religion.
As our [Regional] Health Officer said here, “If you’re a doctor who doesn’t believe in [medicine], you should find a new job.”
We have so few doctors that we don’t need to waste time with quackery, even on the provider side.
Furthermore, this is in line with established legal precedent, e.g. the “gay wedding cake” case. If you provide services to the general public, you don’t get to discriminate on religious grounds whether you want to serve one group and not another. That’s how we got segregation.
If your religion prevents you from doing all parts of your job, find another fucking job.
My religion prevents me from filling out my quarterly reports, sorry.