New York is urging a federal court to keep a group representing Christian health-care professionals out of its fight against a new federal religious conscience protection rule.
The Christian Medical and Dental Associations may not enter the case to help the U.S. Health and Human Services Department defend a rule that will allow health-care workers to deny care or information on the basis of their religious beliefs, the state told the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York July 9.
The group’s presence isn’t necessary to protect and promote its members’ interests, New York said. Its intervention, ...