Posted on 12/10/2022 6:39:42 PM PST by marshmallow
Denver, Colo., Dec 9, 2022 / 17:15 pm The Biden administration may not force Catholic organizations and medical professionals to perform gender-transition surgeries or provide insurance coverage for them, the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has said in a Dec. 9 ruling that cited religious freedom grounds.
“The federal government has no business forcing doctors to violate their consciences or perform controversial procedures that could permanently harm their patients,” Luke Goodrich, vice president and senior counsel at Becket legal group, said Friday. “This is a common-sense ruling that protects patients, aligns with best medical practice, and ensures doctors can follow their Hippocratic Oath to ‘do no harm.’”
Becket serves as legal counsel for a coalition of Catholic organizations representing hospitals, doctors, and clinics that had filed the legal challenge to the mandate issued by President Joe Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The Catholic groups alleged that the mandate required them to perform and provide insurance coverage for gender-transition surgeries and abortions, against their conscientious objections.
Plaintiffs included four Catholic groups under the Religious Sisters of Mercy, along with the Catholic Benefits Association, the Catholic Medical Association, the Diocese of Fargo, and Catholic Charities of North Dakota. They were joined by the state of North Dakota.
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All they have to do is read the constitution. It’s just that simple to avoid all this.
A rare outbreak of sanity.
IMO, Trump ought to be tweeting heavily about this issue. And the trans in sports issues. He needs to fasten onto issues that are bigger than himself and his 2020 election complaints. He also should position himself as the peace candidate regarding Ukraine. Nobody else in the GOP who is a possible presidential candidate is calling for negotiations to end the destructive war. He will set himself apart and refurnish himself as the candidate opposed to wasteful wars.
Anyone have any information on the make up of the ruling?
The Catholic president is no friend of Catholics. He’s really just AOC in disguise as a rotten old radical Lib.
There is an absolute perverse obsession with transgender in this administration.
What a hypocrite always bragging about being a Catholic.
Like the POS fake pope and peloisi.
Jesus said love the sinner, hate the sin. Joe just loves the sin and uses the sinner to achieve his goals. Joe loves the sins of immorality, of adultery, of fornication and homosexuality. If God hates it, Joe loves it.
Every loser group under the sun you can be sure the Biden administration will back them.
Not a sane one in the lot records show.
I remember our neighbor, a very old woman in 1960 claiming that as a nation “If we elect a Catholic we are lost!”
Then John Kennedy was elected.
The Protestant Democrat KKK didn’t intimidate just blacks.
Catholics, Republicans and Jews were also mistreated.
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