Posted on 01/16/2024 9:06:19 AM PST by Twotone
President Joe Biden continued his methodical war against people of faith last week when his Department of Health and Human Services issued new regulations rescinding conscience protections for doctors and nurses who are forced by their employers to perform procedures that violate their beliefs.
At a time when many states are mandating healthcare professionals perform highly controversial procedures such as abortion, sterilization, assisted suicide, and gender transition surgeries, Biden’s actions will only force more religious observers out of the healthcare profession entirely.
The HHS is charged with being the first responder for over a dozen federal laws designed to protect religious freedom, including the Coats-Snowe Amendment, the Church Amendments, the Weldon Amendment, and various protections written into Medicare and Medicaid. In 2019, the Trump administration issued new regulations that beefed up these religious liberty protections, making it clear that the laws were primarily concerned with “the free exercise of religious beliefs.”
Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion outfits quickly condemned the rule, claiming that it “would have allowed healthcare providers to deny treatment or medical information to patients based on their personal beliefs,” which is true. But then Planned Parenthood went on to claim, “This rule would have put the beliefs of health care workers over the health and safety of their patients and put lives at risk.”
While it is true the rule was designed to put the beliefs of healthcare workers over the immediate desires of patients, there is no evidence that allowing the rule would have put anybody’s life at risk. The United States is brimming with doctors all too willing to abort babies and disfigure children.
Biden’s new rule undoes the presumption in favor of religious freedom and instead calls for a “balance” between the “liberty and human dignity” of doctors and nurses and the “autonomy rights” of patients, which the regulation specifically notes includes “safe legal abortions.”
Despite the fact that this “balancing” test is written nowhere in statute, we have already seen it play out in Biden’s Justice Department. In 2021, the Biden administration dropped a lawsuit that had been initiated through an HHS conscience complaint against a Vermont hospital that had forced a Catholic nurse to participate in an elective abortion.
Unfortunately, Biden’s rollback of conscience protections for healthcare providers is just part of his administration’s much larger effort to push religious believers out of public life. Biden has also kicked Franciscan priests out of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, made it harder for faith-based organizations to contract with federal agencies to provide social services, and denied the right of Christian adoption agencies to participate in HHS programs.
Democrats in Congress are too beholden to the abortion lobby to do anything legislatively to fix what Biden has done. And even if they did, the Biden administration has already inserted a balancing test into the enforcement of these laws that is nowhere in the statute. It will be up to the courts to set Biden straight after other doctors or nurses have been forced to violate their consciences or lose their jobs. It shouldn’t have to come to that, but that is where we are.
Such a POS. He and his puppet masters are truly spawn of satan.
REMEMBER - Biden told us all that the Pope said BIDEN WAS A GOOD CATHOLIC.
We know Joey LIES. But then again, I doubt the Pope is Catholic
not to worry there are plenty of dei hires to replace those conscience bound docs who will retire. just remember friends, dei leads to die. whether in a plane or an operating room.
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funds abortions on Friday and receives communion on Sunday
“...a ‘balance’ between ‘liberty and human dignity’...”
Where, pray tell, does the LIFE of the unborn CHILD fit into that?
Yeesh! These people are such ghouls! And the current pope is a train wreck!
It’s sad to see all aspects of society fall. Socialists truly DO have a stranglehold on all aspects of out lives.
Luckily, I am a Church of Two (me & God) and we know Right from Wrong and Good from Evil.
Biden’s living in the Stone Age when nobody knew about fetal heartbeats, etc:
<><>he rolledback “conscience protections” for healthcare providers
<><>his much larger effort is to push religious believers out of public life.
<><>he kicked Franciscan priests out of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center,
<><>he prevented faith-based organizations from contracting with federal agencies,
<><>he denied Christian adoption agencies from participating in federal HHS programs.
Oh, I KNOW we’re (Christians) taking it in the shorts these days. No doubt!
The Stone Age-——let’s go viral with it-——that’s decrepit Biden’s mind set.
Reference—The Stone Age began about 2.6 million years ago, when the earliest evidence of humans using stone tools was found, and lasted until about 3,300 B.C. when the Bronze Age began.
There’s three distinct Stone Age periods: the Paleolithic Period, Mesolithic Period and Neolithic Period.
Marx and Lenin both taught their underlings that the family and religious faith stand in the way of the state overpowering the capitalist system. Both have to be undermined.
As for children in school:
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
Vladimir Lenin (not actually a quote from the National Education Association (NEA) which is the largest labor union in the United States.
He is evil to the core.
There are no limits to tyranny...
Particularly when the tyrannized roll over and play dead...
There is no end in sight...
It took several generations (of indoctrination) to surrender to this dark tyranny and it will take several generations (of counter-indoctrination) to return to a semblance of pre-1970s freedoms & liberties...
The very first absolute requirements are the mass deportation of all migrant invaders and the total gutting of the government-controlled education systems and the communists/teachers who indoctrinate the children...
He claims to be a devout Catholic and that means also a devout Christian ... or does it?
The are many things that anger God but the wicked forcing His people to put their hands unto iniquity infuriates Him big time.
Those who do such, like this administration, if they do not repent, will face eternal wrath.
One of our female relatives was an RN for most of her life.
Like many RN’s from that time, she and my wife went to nursing schools based in religious hospitals.
They were good hospitals for their patients, staff and for future and present hospital workers.
This relative died a couple of years ago with this warning:
“There will be zero hospitals backed by a Christian or Jewish religion.!”
That would allow those in charge of those hospitals to perform and do anything behind their closed doors.
She must seen what was coming and was here without most of us knowing what was being done behind closed doors.
The obsession w/ baby killing is monstrous.......what they want most of all.
No surprise why Biden has such tight ties win with China communists have the same agenda one world order.
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