HHS proposed "Conscience Rights" for health providers; Left immediately sues, judge says "unconstitutional"
In January of 2018 the federal department of Health and Human Services published a notice
of proposed rulemaking entitled “Protecting Statutory Conscience Rights
in Health Care.” In May of this year HHS published a "final rule" protecting doctors from being forced to violate their religious beliefs.
Anti-religious groups--okay, anti-all-religions-except-Islam-- immediately filed suit in federal court to throw out this protection. A city attorney for San Francisco sued as soon as the proposed rule was released. Other leftist groups quickly followed, and by the end of May at least five lawsuits had been filed in different federal courts.
In addition to the usual crowd, the pro-tranny mafia were outraged that the rule would allow a doctor to legally refuse to certify a kid for a sex-change operation. Opponents of the "conscience rule" claimed religious freedom must be denied to health providers, who should be forced to do as the Left demanded.
And sure enough, on November 6th an Obama-appointed judge (Paul Engelmayer) overturned the "conscience rule" even before it would have taken effect. (New York v. HHS, No. 19-cv-4676-PAE doc # 248 (S.D.N.Y. Nov 6, 2019) Engelmayer said the rule was "unconstitutional," but I have yet to find the actual Constitutional provision he claimed was violated by the conscience rule.
To emphasize the real point of this victory for them, an attorney with the ACLU issued a statement saying “Everyone is entitled to their religious beliefs BUT religious beliefs do not include a license to discriminate, to deny essential care, or to cause harm to others.”
You really have to marvel at the gall of the ACLU spokesperson adding the phrase "...or cause harm to others." Makes it sound like allowing two percent of health providers to opt out for religious beliefs would harm Leftists.
Now, you're not a health-care provider so why should this distant decision be of any concern? Because it shows you that leftist judges will overrule religious beliefs in favor of....
Anti-religious groups--okay, anti-all-religions-except-Islam-- immediately filed suit in federal court to throw out this protection. A city attorney for San Francisco sued as soon as the proposed rule was released. Other leftist groups quickly followed, and by the end of May at least five lawsuits had been filed in different federal courts.
In addition to the usual crowd, the pro-tranny mafia were outraged that the rule would allow a doctor to legally refuse to certify a kid for a sex-change operation. Opponents of the "conscience rule" claimed religious freedom must be denied to health providers, who should be forced to do as the Left demanded.
And sure enough, on November 6th an Obama-appointed judge (Paul Engelmayer) overturned the "conscience rule" even before it would have taken effect. (New York v. HHS, No. 19-cv-4676-PAE doc # 248 (S.D.N.Y. Nov 6, 2019) Engelmayer said the rule was "unconstitutional," but I have yet to find the actual Constitutional provision he claimed was violated by the conscience rule.
To emphasize the real point of this victory for them, an attorney with the ACLU issued a statement saying “Everyone is entitled to their religious beliefs BUT religious beliefs do not include a license to discriminate, to deny essential care, or to cause harm to others.”
You really have to marvel at the gall of the ACLU spokesperson adding the phrase "...or cause harm to others." Makes it sound like allowing two percent of health providers to opt out for religious beliefs would harm Leftists.
Now, you're not a health-care provider so why should this distant decision be of any concern? Because it shows you that leftist judges will overrule religious beliefs in favor of....
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