Trump Backs Health-Care Workers Who Object to Providing Abortions
The Department of Health and Human Services announced a new office devoted to conscience objections and religious freedom on Thursday—an answer to long-standing objections from the right.
The Department of Health and Human Services announced a new office dedicated to investigating conscience objections and religious-freedom concerns in health care on Thursday. The initiative doesn’t change the law. Rather, it strongly signals the focus of the department’s Office of Civil Rights, which is responsible for investigating civil-rights violations in health-care contexts. Roger Severino, the head of OCR, that he hoped to increase enforcement of laws that protect workers from being forced to violate their consciences. This move makes good on that promise. It also answers long-standing
