{"id":18629,"date":"2020-06-05T14:57:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T21:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=18629"},"modified":"2020-06-05T14:24:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T21:24:35","slug":"78-members-of-congress-support-hhs-rule-protecting-healthcare-workers-who-decline-to-perform-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/78-members-of-congress-support-hhs-rule-protecting-healthcare-workers-who-decline-to-perform-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"78 Members of Congress Support HHS Rule Protecting Healthcare Workers Who Decline to Perform Abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Heather Clark<\/a> – June 1, 2020<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014<\/strong> Numerous state attorneys general and 78 members of Congress have signed on to amicus briefs supporting a new rule issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that aims to protect the\u00a0conscience rights of medical professionals who have objections to assisting with abortions or physician-assisted suicides.<\/p>\n

HHS was sued last year by New York Attorney General Letitia James, who led a coalition of nearly two dozen other states, as she asserted that the \u201cConscience Rights in Health Care\u201d rule is discriminatory and \u201ca gross misrepresentation of religious freedom.\u201d The abortion giant Planned Parenthood and the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association sued to challenge the protections as well.<\/p>\n

In November, a federal judge struck down the measure, opining that the rule is unnecessary and too rigidly places states at jeopardy of losing federal funding for non-compliance with the conscience protections.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Department\u2019s regulations are a recent chapter in this country\u2019s \u2018long history of providing protections \u2026 on the basis of religious beliefs and moral\u00a0convictions,’\u201d wrote Ohio Attorney General David Yost<\/a> in a recent amicus brief to defend the rules as the case now rests in the hands of a federal appeals court.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat history actually begins with the states. By the time the federal Constitution was ratified, all but one\u00a0of the original thirteen states already had constitutional protections for religious\u00a0freedom,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n

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Heather Clark – June 1, 2020 WASHINGTON \u2014 Numerous state attorneys general and 78 members of Congress have signed on to amicus briefs supporting a new rule issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that aims to protect the\u00a0conscience rights of medical professionals who have objections to assisting with abortions or … Continue reading 78 Members of Congress Support HHS Rule Protecting Healthcare Workers Who Decline to Perform Abortions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[43,14998,14997,204,3443],"class_list":["post-18629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-white-horse","tag-abortion","tag-david-yost","tag-national-family-planning-and-reproductive-health-association","tag-planned-parenthood","tag-religious-freedom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-4Qt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18631,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18629\/revisions\/18631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}