The Trump Administration has escalated its fight to retain a rule that would allow health-care workers to deny medical treatment based on their religious and moral beliefs, telling a federal court in New York that it’s taking the case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services filed a notice of appeal in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Jan. 3. That court in November vacated a rule that would have stripped federal funding from health-care providers that forced workers to go against their religious ...