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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.
According to the article, the rule never went into effect because it was blocked by the courts.
The headline says that it was partially rescinded, but I couldn't find what portions were left in place or why.
Is is bad that I read it as con-science just because it was next to his name?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
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.
The Department will continue to respect the balance Congress struck, work to ensure individuals understand their conscience rights, and enforce the law.”
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.
The Trump administration’s 2019 rule was blocked by three federal courts and never took effect after several states, cities and advocacy groups — including New York, California, San Francisco, the American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood — sued.
The rule would have allowed doctors, nurses, medical students, pharmacists and other health workers to refuse to provide any procedure to which they objected, including abortions, contraception, gender-affirming care, and HIV and STD services.
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