The Biden administration is appealing to keep in place a mandate that doctors and hospitals provide gender-transition surgeries, regardless of their conscientious beliefs.
On Tuesday, the legal group Becket – which represents Catholic doctors and hospitals in their case against the “transgender mandate” – reported that the administration had filed an appeal to keep the mandate in place.
“The Biden Admin just filed an appeal seeking to force religious doctors and hospitals to perform potentially harmful gender-transition procedures against their conscience and professional medical judgment,” stated Luke Goodrich, VP and senior counsel at Becket, on Twitter on Tuesday.
The Obama administration in 2016 first issued the mandate, interpreting a nondiscrimination provision in the Affordable Care Act to require doctors and hospitals to provide gender-transition surgeries upon the referral of a mental health professional.
The mandate did not include exemptions for religion and conscience, thus applying even to doctors and hospitals with conscientious or even medical opposition to performing gender-transition surgeries.
As almost all doctors receive Medicare and Medicaid funds, the mandate as attached to federal funding would apply almost universally, Becket argued.
“The Biden Admin says it can punish doctors and hospitals for ‘sex discrimination’ unless they perform controversial gender-transition procedures,” Goodrich tweeted on Tuesday.
More than 19,000 healthcare professionals, nine states, and several religious organizations filed two lawsuits against the mandate; in December 2016, two federal courts placed an injunction on the mandate.
Two more federal district court judges ruled against the mandate in 2019 and 2021. In January, a judge in North Dakota granted permanent injunctive relief to Catholic doctors, hospitals, clinics, and benefits groups that sued over the mandate.
On Tuesday, the Biden administration appealed that ruling, asking that the mandate stay in effect. “This is bad for patients, doctors, and religious liberty,” Goodrich said.
The above comes from an April 20 story on the site of the Catholic News Agency.
I highly doubt Biden has the mental acuity to understand this issue, much less say or do anything about it. Someone is acting in his name.
How could this be? Bp. McElroy said Biden is “a man of Catholic faith,” and as all Catholics believe, it is a grave sin to mutilate the human body.
It is a grave sin to mutilate the body of an person-like in torture or attacks meant to maim. Surgery is not a grave sin, unless it is something like sterilization.
There is this from 2011:
https://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican-says-sex-change-operation-does-not-change-persons-gender
Jesus said “If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into Gehenna.
And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your members than to have your whole body go into Gehenna.”
The soul is more important than the body.
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The Lord Jesus was using hyperbole (an exaggeration), and not to be taken literally. We should not go about destroying our bodies to avoid temptation, but ask the Lord for the grace to avoid such sins and do penance in healthy ways. Fasting and/or abstinence are two as long as we do them in healthy ways and not starve ourselves to death.
A clarification: He used hyperbole to express how horrible the real hell is in the afterlife if one does not repent and change ones ways. So there is a real hell.
Man, that is one creepy lookin’ son of a gun….
Luke Goodrich is not the bad guy in this situation. He is against such mutilating surgery if he is on the Becket team, and he is on their team according to the article.
Brian Burch spoke with the Daily Caller about President Biden’s decision to file an appeal that would force Christian doctors to violate their religious beliefs and provide transgender surgeries. “Can anyone name a single thing about Joe Biden’s Catholicism that makes him different in any way from the radical left?” Burch asked the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Joe Biden may have grown up as a ‘devout’ Catholic, but it sure seems like he is transitioning into something else,” Burch said.
https://dailycaller.com/2021/04/21/catholic-vote-joe-biden-lgbtq/
His faith is just a prop.
More forced compliance from tyrannical leftists. If you voted for Biden, this is on you.
Anonymous [4/22 9:37 am]. Any professional qualifications to back up the assertion President Biden can not understand this issue?