Posted on 08/30/2021 6:10:21 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer
Medical professionals are suing President Joe Biden’s administration over a mandate requiring doctors to perform transgender surgeries in violation of their religious beliefs or medical judgement.
Represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom, the American College of Pediatricians, the Catholic Medical Association and an OB-GYN doctor specializing in adolescent care filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Chattanooga Thursday against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
“The law and the medical profession have long recognized and respected the biological differences between boys and girls and the unique needs they each present in health care. Forcing doctors to prescribe transition hormones for 13-year-olds or perform life-altering surgeries on adolescents is unlawful, unethical, and dangerous,” ADF Senior Counsel Ryan Bangert said in a statement.
“President Biden’s Health and Human Services department is grossly overreaching its authority and, in so doing, putting children’s psychological and physical health in danger,” Bangert said. “Our clients are rightfully objecting on medical, ethical, religious, and conscientious grounds to this unlawful government mandate to provide gender-transition procedures.”
The two medical associations represent 3,000 doctors and health care professionals, ADF said in a press release.
“Doctors should never be forced to perform a controversial and often medically dangerous procedure that goes against their best judgment, their conscience, or their religion, especially when it involves vulnerable children experiencing mental and emotional confusion,” ADF Senior Counsel Julie Marie Blake said in a statement.
“Doctors should never be forced to perform a controversial and often medically dangerous procedure that goes against their best judgment, their conscience, or their religion, especially when it involves vulnerable children experiencing mental and emotional confusion,” ADF Senior Counsel Julie Marie Blake said in a statement.
“To force doctors to engage in experimental medicine that poses a risk to patients—or face huge financial penalties, withdrawal of federal funding, or removal of their ability to practice medicine—is an extreme violation of doctors’ constitutional rights and certainly not in the best interest of the patients they serve,” Blake continued.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
(A complete .pdf of the Complaint is available at the source page.)
“I was just following orders.”
I don’t promote surgery for sexual dissatisfaction, but the fact is, I would not even want a surgeon cutting me open if he or she made it known they did not agree with or support the reasons for this procedure.
That feeling is bound to effect their work. Find another provider. Surgeons are only people, not machines. Besides, we are talking about Elective Surgery, not something of extreme urgency.
transgender agenda - bump for later....
They don’t do permanent trans surgeries on confused children in Afghanistan.
Biden took the vaccine to prove how safe it was for Americans.
I recommend he go through transgender surgery in solidarity with the LGBTQ azzwipes. Should be an easy operation since he has no balls.
Think about it. With the uproar of parents at school boards about CRT, they have managed to get policies/curriculums changed.
Sure he does. They’re safely tucked away in Jill’s purse. But apparently he doesn’t need them when any little girl has the misfortune of his proximity.
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