Posted on 08/11/2021 5:47:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Joe Biden has been hit again by a federal court blocking his administration’s mandate that would require doctors to perform gender reassignment surgeries even if they do not want to.
U.S. District Court of Northern Texas, Reed O’Connor, sided with the Christian plaintiffs in issuing a permanent injunction saying they are “to be exempt from the government’s requirements to perform abortions and gender-transition procedures,” Yahoo News reported.
A federal judge has blocked the Biden administration from enforcing a mandate on several religious organizations that would have required them to perform gender transition surgeries or abortions.
Judge Reed O’Connor of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas permanently blocked the Biden administration from applying the mandate to all plaintiffs in the case. Those plaintiffs include the Franciscan Alliance, a Catholic hospital system that operates twelve hospitals in Indiana and Illinois, in addition to numerous other health facilities in those states.
The administration may not enforce the mandate on plaintiffs “in a manner that would require them to perform or provide insurance coverage for gender-transition procedures or abortions,” O’Connor wrote in his ruling.
Luke Goodrich, who is the vice president and legal counsel for the freedom advocacy group Becket, said, “No doctor should be forced to perform controversial, medically unsupported procedures that are contrary to their conscience and could be deeply harmful to their patients.”
The decision permanently enjoins Health And Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra from “interpreting or enforcing” the mandate “in a manner that would require them to perform or provide insurance coverage for gender-transition procedures or abortions, including by denying Federal financial assistance because of their failure to perform or provide insurance coverage for such procedures or by otherwise pursuing, charging, or assessing any penalties, fines, assessments, investigations, or other enforcement actions.”
“The Christian plaintiffs contend that violation of their statutory rights under RFRA (Religious Freedom Restoration Act) is an irreparable harm,” the judge said.
“The court agrees,” O’Connor said, “and concludes that enforcement of the 2021 interpretation (of Section 1557) forces Christian plaintiffs to face civil penalties or to perform gender-transition procedures and abortions contrary to their religious beliefs — a quintessential irreparable injury.”
The same judge struck down the mandate two years ago saying that the government “cannot force religious doctors and hospitals to perform gender transition procedures in violation of their conscience and professional medical judgment.”
The mandate was attached to the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, by former President Obama’s administration.
It required healthcare providers to insure and perform gender transitions and it does not provide a religious exemption for providers.
Eight states, The Franciscan Alliance, and other Christian groups filed a lawsuit against the mandate and received a preliminary injunction on December 31, 2016, from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas that said the mandate “likely violates” the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
The injunction said that providers could not be mandated to provide abortions and gender transition surgeries against their religious beliefs but that other parts of the mandates stayed intact.
“Today’s ruling protects patients, aligns with current medical research, and ensures doctors aren’t forced to violate their religious beliefs and medical judgment,” Goodrich said in a series of tweets.
#BREAKING: Another federal court just blocked the Biden Admin’s controversial #TransgenderMandate, which seeks to force doctors to perform potentially harmful gender-transition procedures that violate their conscience and medical judgment: 🧵https://t.co/TgbHOmTN4M
— Luke Goodrich (@LukeWGoodrich) August 9, 2021
“The plaintiffs are a religious hospital & group of over 20,000 healthcare professionals (@CMDANational) who gladly serve ALL patients regardless of their sex or gender identity. They provide top-notch care to transgender patients for everything from cancer to the common cold,” he said.
“These religious doctors and hospitals joyfully serve ALL patients and routinely provide top-notch care to transgender patients. There is ample evidence, however, that some gender transition procedures can harm patients,” said.
As is the case, find another doctor. But to the leftists, they prefer forcing someone against their will to perform services for their followers. There are a few bakers in this country nodding in agreement.
What the hell? This makes no sense, this is utter insanity. If a doctor does not do that procedure then how the hell is he going to know how in the first place?
If I wanted Trans-surgery, I wouldn’t want it done by a surgeon who was being forced to do it. This sort of ruling should be unnecessary.
Insanity. Proving democraps interest is NOT in helping but in harming.
Demanding untrained surgeons perform horrific genital mutilation is madness and harmful to any involved parties.
Youtube has graphic, illustrated videos of what these procedures involve.
It’s thoroughly disgusting. Demanding untrained doctors attempt this is evil.
Those ghouls running the Biden White House must be having a party. Kill the unborn in the womb, and if they make it out alive, put them under the knife and change their gender.
I saw 4 surgeons before i let anyone operate on me. I met with 3 pre ops before making the decision. The anesthesiologist played a big part in the decision due to complicated factors
I cant imagine selecting a doctor who is forced to do a surgery that is not even in his realm of experience
Sheer lunacy
Fixed. A news outlet calling itself "Conservative Brief" should not adopt the language of the left but should instead use truthful language.
It is hard for me to believe this story. It is shocking
I recently found out that some people have an extra artery in their heart that does not have its own groove to keep it in place. It slides around. Ramus intermedius.
So this story is like
hey..lets have someone who never dealt with this extra artery do a complicated heart surgery...oh and even if he doesnt want to do it we will force him to do it.
dems are insane
If I were a medical professional you never know when I might make a mistake with the plumbing. It might give Chit faced a whole new meaning. Somebody might end up pissing out their ear or something.
Like I told one of our guys who got in an argument with the camp cook in a West African nation: “I thought you were a smart man. Don’t you have sense enough to not get in a fight with the guy responsible for your next bowel movement?”
Low bid for brain surger is also a bad idea.
The patients can find another doctor.
Absolutely true for genital reassignment surgery. These are complex procedures, not routinely tought in urology or gynecology residency. Any surgeon competent in these techniques has actively sought out the training, has bought into the trans ideology and doesn’t have to be coerced. The big exception is mastectomy for trans males. Every general surgeon is trained in this procedure, for a different indication (breast cancer). There will be coercion. Appeal to lack of competence won’t be credible.
RE: The patients can find another doctor.
Precisely, just like a Gay Couple can find another Baker who will make their wedding cake.
Maybe I’ll check out some of those videos. Yesterday, I read Finland said kids can only be prescribed hormones and puberty suppressor im a teaching hospital. Plus the article said that some sex change procedures cause some kids to lose the ability to enjoy sex. It didn’t say which procedures.
They certainly could but it’s much more fun to force people into doing something that violates their moral code, especially if they are Christians.
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