President Donald Trump’s health agency announced plans Monday to prioritize enforcement of religious protections through its civil rights office, in a shift from the Biden administration’s efforts to strengthen reproductive rights.
US Department of Health and Human Services acting secretary Dorothy Fink said in a statement that the agency’s Office for Civil Rights will evaluate guidance and regulations involving conscience and religious exercise.
The HHS “is tasked with enforcement of many of our nation’s laws that protect the fundamental and unalienable rights of conscience and religious exercise,” Fink said in the statement. “It shall be a priority of the Department ...
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