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Court rules Catholic healthcare providers cannot be be forced to perform gender-affirming surgeries
A federal court has ruled against the Biden administration, saying that Catholic hospitals and doctors can’t be forced to cover or perform gender transition surgeries, as was required under ObamaCare.
ObamaCare bans sex discrimination by health care providers which receive federal funding. Refusing to perform a gender-affirming surgery was classified as discrimination by the Department of Health and Human Services.
In the Friday ruling, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously found the HHS violated the religious beliefs of the plaintiffs, which included the Religious Sisters of Mercy and the Catholic Benefit Association.
The plaintiffs argued that the rule “forces healthcare professionals to violate their medical judgment, it also forces them to violate their deeply held religious beliefs.”
The three-judge panel ruled that the HHS specifically violated the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The court upheld a previous injunction preventing the HHS from enforcing the rule.
The plantiffs were represented by Becket Law, a D.C. group that is dedicated to preserving religious freedom.
Speaking on behalf of the group, Becket’s senior counsel Luke Goodrich said after the court ruling: “Today’s victory sets an important precedent that religious healthcare professionals are free to practice medicine in accordance with their consciences and experienced professional judgment.”
He added, “The government’s attempt to force doctors to go against their consciences was bad for patients, bad for doctors, and bad for religious liberty.”
Terry A. Hurlbut has been a student of politics, philosophy, and science for more than 35 years. He is a graduate of Yale College and has served as a physician-level laboratory administrator in a 250-bed community hospital. He also is a serious student of the Bible, is conversant in its two primary original languages, and has followed the creation-science movement closely since 1993.
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No one is obligated to mutilate some one because they are mentally ill or want to engage in abnormal behaviors. A person who thinks they are the opposite gender is mentally ill. I suspect when you look at those promoting these things behind the screen one will people who want to reduce the population. And what better way the trick people in sterilizing themselves permanently.