Posted on 05/16/2024 9:51:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra admitted during a congressional hearing on Wednesday that hospitals with religious objections to transgender mutilation will lose federal funding.
“Can you commit here today that your department will not withhold federal funding from hospitals or doctors who refuse to provide the gender-affirming care that you are, you know, mandating, if it violates their religious beliefs?” Republican Rep. Mary Miller, chairwoman of the House Education and Workforce Committee, asked Becerra.
Becerra ignored the question and scolded Miller for asking it.
“You’re going somewhere completely different. First, you started talking about how a doctor should have the rights to not offer particular care. Then you stretch it out to provide for the system-wide services. Very different,” Becerra said.
🚨After attempting to lie, HHS Secretary Becerra says the quiet part out loud. Joe Biden’s government will withhold funds from religious hospitals that refuse to provide sex-change operations for young children. pic.twitter.com/pEX4LC82TF— Rep. Mary Miller (@RepMaryMiller) May 15, 2024
Undeterred by Becerra’s obfuscating, Miller pressed the Biden appointee further.
“You put out this guidance and doctors need to know what are you going to do if they refuse to provide this care?” Miller asked again.
Becerra claimed doctors with “religious objections” to cutting off the breasts and genitals of physically healthy people are protected under conscience objection rules and are “not required” to wreak irreversible damage on bodies.
The Biden administration, however, has worked overtime to undo these protections. Under President Joe Biden, health-care workers whose conscience rights were verifiably violated could not secure legal recourse. Sometimes they were forced to either leave their job or violate their faith to stay employed.
“So you’re committing here today that you will not withhold federal funding?” Miller asked.
“Doctors don’t get federal funding, ma’am,” Beccera replied.
“But the hospitals do,” Miller noted. “Doctors are working in these hospitals.”
Despite Becerra’s dodging, Miller asked again if the Biden administration would punish “health-care facilities” by withholding federal funding if they refused to participate in transing children and adults.
It was only then that the secretary admitted hospitals that fail to carry out the regime’s agenda will suffer financial retaliation from the federal government.
“If a health-care facility is violating the law and not providing the service they are required to, they are not entitled to federal funding,” Becerra said.
Becerra’s confession comes mere weeks after HHS finalized a rule amending President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act to prohibit providers that benefit from taxpayer funds from denying ill-named “care” such as chemical castration and transgender mutilation to anyone. Just about every large health-care provider accepts federal funds through programs such as Medicaid and Medicare.
A growing number of people — especially children — who undergo social or physical “transitions,” such as adopting false pronouns, undergoing mutilation, or taking sterilizing drugs, suffer harrowing, life-threatening consequences. Yet Democrats have made extremist gender ideology and all of its consequences a hallmark of their bureaucratic agenda.
XX, XY.
Who forces TMOTB upon almost everyone? :)
All this, from “leaving them alone in their bedrooms.”
Well, ALMOST everyone - The Scripture says he causes ALL but of course, Tribulation Saints (not called that) will reject it. But it’s a good question to clarify for the thread. :)
Many think it’s the Antichrist but it’s actually the False Prophet
The False Prophet is the second beast that arises (from the Earth) - for the thread
Revelation 13:11-18
21st Century King James Version
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke as a dragon.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him; and he causeth the earth and them that dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men.
14 And he deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast, saying to them that dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword and lived.
15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause to be killed as many as would not worship the image of the beast.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads,
17 that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark or the name of the beast or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom: Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred threescore and six.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+13%3A11-18&version=KJ21
It’s already here....
When that happens, I will leave the country.
Every doctor is required by law to be Doctor Mengele?
Ending this policy should be a day-one correction by the Trump Administration.
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