Two dozen state attorneys general are joining a lawsuit against the Trump administration, seeking to block a new rule that protects healthcare workers’ right to object to performing abortions or gender reassignment surgeries.
States such as New York, California, Massachusetts, Washington, Michigan, and Pennsylvania have joined the lawsuit, filed July 20 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
The Department of Health and Human Services on June 12 promulgated a rule to protect doctors’ right to object to abortion and gender reassignment operations, clarifying that bans on sex-based discrimination do not include gender identity or abortion.
The HHS said that its final rule eliminates portions of a 2016 regulation that had inappropriately expanded the definition of sex discrimination.
Several US Catholic hospitals have faced lawsuits for declining to conduct transgender surgeries.
Full story at Catholic News Agency.
From the New York Times: Before Auschwitz and the other death camps, the Nazis had established a policy of direct medical killing – killing arranged within medical channels, by means of medical decisions, and carried out by doctors and their assistants. The Nazis called this program ”euthanasia.” Doctors, in short, played a crucial role in the Final Solution. The full significance of medically directed killing for Nazi theory and behavior cannot be comprehended unless we understand how Nazi doctors destroyed the boundary between healing and killing.
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/21/magazine/german-doctors-and-the-final-solution.html
No dissent from the orders of the doctors or policy-makers in charge was permitted. And, it appears we’re heading in that direction and violating consciences. One must commit evil. No religious beliefs contrary to the regime will be tolerated.Totalitarian is only one of many words that could be used to describe such a tragic, evil situation.
This is big, and a bit ironic. It is my understanding that the left promoted aberrant sexuality based on conscience, at least, but not exclusively, in the Church. Now appeals to conscience fall on deaf ears, that is, deaf to ideas not embraced by the left. How many doctors and nurses lives will be ruined if this lawsuit succeeds? How many Catholic hospitals will close rather than be party to this evil? This is cancel culture at its worst.
That’s because the Left is totalitarian, not principled. The Left seeks to impose its will on everyone by force. You’re not allowed to disagree. You’re not allowed to withhold assent. You must comply, you must assent, you must express support and do it with a smile on your face.
Seems the plaintiffs are trying to create a promlem when none exists. I’m fairly certain, at least in all but small towns and rural areas, there is more than one ptroperly qualified hospital and more than one qualified doctor.
Seems like the plaintiffs are trying to creeate a problem when none exists. I’m fairly certain, except in small towns and rural areas, there is more than one qualified hospital and doctor.
And the hypocrisy in the medical profession is pretty breathtaking too. No defense of conscientious objector constituents by the mainstream medical associations. Physicians outside of the subspecialties that involve “gender reassignment therapy” demonstrate their wokeness by silence or actively encouraging such political coercion. The most brave of them are far outside this sphere of practice, but it is remarkable how they pull back when the idea of forced participation in euthanasia could be placed on them. Any doctor can kill someone. And if the time comes when they will be chosen to do the killing, saying no may not be an option. By and large, IME, they have a difficult time coherently answering this possibility.