The head of the HHS Office for Civil Rights says a division launched to protect health-care providers who have moral objections to certain procedures will be his “lasting legacy.”
“The foundational rights of conscience and religious freedom deserve to be enforced at least as well as every other civil right we enforce,” OCR Director Roger Severino told Bloomberg Law. Laws that protect conscience and religious freedom in the health-care arena haven’t gotten the attention they deserve, he said.
Federal regulations prohibit health-care employees from being coerced into participating in medical procedures to which they object, including abortion and ...
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