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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Downright deadly': Pelosi rips Trump rule allowing providers to deny care to LGBTQ, women
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Downright deadly: Pelosi rips Trump rule allowing providers to deny care to LGBTQ, women
The Trump administration expanded moral and religious protections for health care workers who deny medical care
https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/downright-deadly-pelosi-lambastes-trumps-actions-on-religious-objections-to-providing-health-care
Posted May 3, 2019 10:47 AM
Emily Kopp
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that expanded permissions for health care providers to deny care based on religious or moral objections could be downright deadly for women and LGBTQ people.
Pelosi said the new rule grants an open license to discriminate against Americans who already face serious, systemic discrimination in a statement Thursday night.
A final conscience rule unveiled by the Trump administration Thursday would expand the scope of moral and religious protections for workers and health care institutions that refuse medical services, such as abortion or reproductive health care to transgender people.
The regulation also grants the administration a more powerful toolbox to investigate non-compliance with the rule, refer cases to the U.S. Department of Justice and cut off federal spending to providers. President Donald Trump announced the regulation at a Rose Garden speech on Thursday in a ceremony timed to coincide with the National Day of Prayer.
The final rule fulfills President Trumps promise to promote and protect the fundamental and unalienable rights of conscience and religious liberty, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement.
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Since Day One, this Administration has waged a cruel campaign of intolerance and discrimination targeting the civil rights of our most vulnerable communities. House Democrats fully, flatly reject these attacks on LGBTQ Americans and on the rights of all Americans to get the health care they need and will fight these hateful actions, Pelosi said.
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'Downright deadly': Pelosi rips Trump rule allowing providers to deny care to LGBTQ, women (Original Post)
riversedge
May 2019
OP
Yes. And I fail to understand how this is any different from refusing care to black people, because
Trailrider1951
May 2019
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spanone
(135,847 posts)1. Despicable 'president'.
Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)2. Would someone please explain to me how it affects more than before.
I was a computer operator at a Catholic hospital in South Florida in 1993. During orientation, we were told that we could not discuss abortion with anyone including patients. Does this change actually mean that a gay man with kidney stones could be turned away from a hospital just because he is gay?
CurtEastPoint
(18,652 posts)3. Exactly
Trailrider1951
(3,414 posts)6. Yes. And I fail to understand how this is any different from refusing care to black people, because
your "religion" tells you that they are inferior. Or denying care to Hindu people, because they are not Christian. Or refusing to help someone of Native blood, because your preacher tells you she is a "Godless heathen". That's just plain unethical and inhumane. And WRONG!
A Brand New World
(1,119 posts)4. So is the question of sexual orientation going to be asked as you are
being registered at a medical facility? Is the security guard going to escort you from the grounds if you say you are gay or lesbian? Ridiculous!
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)5. Sets a legal precedent for all good medical providers, in a post-Roe scenario.