Trump's 'religious conscience'

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Has anyone heard of this? Its saying that basically ANY healthcare worker has the right as of July 22nd to refuse care to a patient due to the healthcare worker's moral beliefs or religion. I'm so confused. First of all we as healthcare workers are here to help EVERYONE. Most people think it will effect LGBTQ or women, which I can definitely see happening. I mean rapists are against my morals so does that mean I can refuse treatment? I've been looking this up trying to find some clarification.

On the NPR website it states "Last month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services put out a new rule that "implements full and robust enforcement" of existing laws that protect what the administration calls "conscience rights" for health care workers. The rule is set to go into effect on July 22."

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/06/11/730659035/-patients-will-die-one-county-s-challenge-to-trump-s-conscience-rights-rule

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/28/politics/legal-challenge-hhs-conscience-objection-rule/index.html

I added two links of articles I have found on it, still confused though. Any thoughts or facts you guys have?

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Trump’s ‘conscience rule’ for health providers blocked by federal judge

U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer in Manhattan declared the rule unconstitutional in a 147-page decision that said it was “shot through with glaring legal defects.” The rule had been set to go into effect later this month.

The judge said the administration’s central justification of a “significant increase” in complaints related to conscience violations “is flatly untrue. This alone makes the agency’s decision to promulgate the rule arbitrary and capricious.”...

... “The refusal of care rule was an unlawful attempt to allow health care providers to openly discriminate and refuse to provide necessary health care to patients based on providers’ ‘religious beliefs or moral objections,’ ” New York Attorney General Letitia James, who led the groups, said in a statement Wednesday.

Many physician and health advocacy groups contended that the rule would have disproportionately harmed certain groups of patients, including LGBTQ patients...

... Proposed by department’s Office of Civil Rights more than a year ago, the rule was designed to protect “conscience rights” of health-care providers by boosting enforcement of at least two dozen laws already on the books that allow doctors, nurses, technicians and other providers to opt out of procedures such as abortions or sex-reassignment procedures to which they object.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/trumps-conscience-rule-for-health-providers-voided-by-federal-judge/2019/11/06/39aa9b74-00b1-11ea-9518-1e76abc088b6_story.html

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It has been illegal since 1964 to require a nurse or other worker to participate in an abortion or sterilization procedure.

https://allnurses.com/trump-admin-will-protect-health-t669157/

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On 6/16/2019 at 12:57 PM, guest22519 said:

Karl Marx gave some interesting advice to his activist followers: “Accuse your enemy of what you are doing, as you are doing it to create confusion.” This is pretty much what the left does. They destroy, burn, shame, commit violence, suppress speech, but hey it’s fine, right? It’s all Trump’s fault.

You spelled the right incorrectly....

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35 minutes ago, Elaine M said:

You spelled the right incorrectly....

?? I'm missing something here. And yes, lots of stuff is Trump's fault.

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