Court Blocks Biden Policy That Forces Christian Doctors, Hospitals to Perform Trans Surgeries, Abortions
By: Steve Warren
This is a bit of relief in the sea of disaster that is the biden regime. Christian doctors and Christian Hospitals can not be compelled to violate their religious beliefs in performing their duties and mission. The constitution and the RFRA assure the free exercise there of of our religious belief in our daily and work lives. The courts have now affirmed that at least in this regard the government can’t trample upon these rights.
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Court Blocks Biden Policy That Forces Christian Doctors, Hospitals to Perform Trans Surgeries, Abortions
A federal court in Texas has blocked a controversial Biden administration policy known as the Transgender Mandate , which would force religious doctors and hospitals to perform gender transition procedures on their patients—including children—even when the procedures can be medically harmful.
The case of F ranciscan Alliance v. Becerra was brought by a religious hospital, an association of more than 20,000 healthcare professionals, and nine states, and it is now the second court ruling blocking the administration from enforcing the policy.In his decision on Monday, Judge Reed O’Connor of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Wichita Falls Division granted a permanent injunction to the Christian plaintiffs “to be exempt from the government’s requirement to perform abortions and gender-transition procedures.”
The ruling also permanently prohibits Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra “from interpreting or enforcing” the current law “in a manner that would require them to perform or provide insurance coverage for gender-transition procedures or abortions, including by denying Federal financial assistance because of their failure to perform or provide insurance coverage for such procedures or by otherwise pursuing, charging, or assessing any penalties, fines, assessments, investigations, or other enforcement actions.”
“Today’s ruling is a victory for compassion, conscience, and common sense,” said Luke Goodrich, vice president and senior counsel at the religious liberty legal organization called Becket . “No doctor should be forced to perform controversial, medically unsupported procedures that are contrary to their conscience and could be deeply harmful to their patients.”
Dr. Ryan T. Anderson, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., retweeted Goodrich’s tweet with the news of this second federal court ruling blocking the Biden administration’s Transgender Mandate.
“The same judge who struck down the Obama #TransgenderMandate has now struck down the Biden #TransgenderMandate. There should be no #TransgenderMandate at all,” Anderson noted.
As CBN News has reported, back in 2016, former President Barack Obama’s administration issued a mandate that applied to nearly every doctor in the country — interpreting the Affordable Care Act to require them to perform gender transition procedures on any patient, including children, even if the doctor believed the procedure could harm the patient. Doctors who refused to violate their medical judgment would face severe consequences, including financial penalties and private lawsuits.
Several religious organizations and states sued the federal government, challenging the legality of the mandate in multiple courts. In 2016, a federal court in North Dakota put the rule on hold , and in 2019 another federal court in Texas struck it down .
As CBN News reported in April , the Biden administration announced that it would file an appeal to revive Obama’s Transgender Mandate policy. Monday’s ruling stops that attempt, according to Becket.
“These religious doctors and hospitals provide top-notch medical care to all patients for everything from cancer to the common cold,” Goodrich said about the most recent ruling. “Everyone benefits when doctors are able to follow their professional medical judgment and their Hippocratic Oath to ‘Do No Harm.'”
Last spring, the legal scholar denounced Biden’s appeal noting the Transgender Mandate not only threatens religious doctors and hospitals, but it also threatens patients, and there’s substantial evidence showing certain gender transition procedures can be deeply harmful.
Goodrich also explained multiple federal courts have reached the same conclusion: “There is no medical consensus that sex reassignment surgery is a necessary or even effective treatment for gender dysphoria.” Gibson v. Collier, 920 F.3d 212, 223 (5th Cir. 2019).
“The government’s own doctors during the Obama Admin agreed: ‘Based on a thorough review of the clinical evidence…there is not enough evidence to determine whether gender reassignment surgery improves health outcomes for patients with gender dysphoria,'” he wrote .
Goodrich also pointed to a study commissioned by NHS England which found “very low” evidence for the effectiveness of “puberty blockers” and cross-sex hormones.
The Biden administration will have 60 days to decide whether to appeal the court’s ruling.
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So much for religious freedom in the Democrats' utopia.
Why would anyone want to force doctors to do procedures that they are uncomfortable doing?
Good question! Does it apply to the 'woke' secular Santa who was forced to resign because he said no to a young lad who wanted a gun for Christmas?
Nope, not even close to the same damn thing.
Forcing doctors to mutilate children, teenagers, and adults when it is against their religion for an elective surgery? This is not a life threatening condition they are refusing to operate to cure. This is plastic and cosmetic surgery- there are tons of doctors and surgeons that specialize in it. Patients are free to seek them out.
As for the idiot Santa that told the kid no to the gun; is he the one going to provide the gun? No that is the child's parents- it is not his damn decision. He doesn't get to force his ideals on anyone. If the store wanted to shit can him it is completely up to them.
But thank you for playing leftist what-aboutism.
You are welcome, it was fun. As to "is he the one going to provide the gun?" We have only the boy's mother to blame for that fantasy.
The clause is meaningless. No one goes to a religious hospital for an abortion.
And what happens? They say no and refer them to PP or a clinic that CAN help them.
Well I am shocked by the inaccuracy of the title.
The original ACA mandate's sole purpose was to prevent discrimination against people based on sex, particularly in the E.R.,
by adding gay and transgendered to the protected class.
Same as NY state and others.
Trump sought to end the protection specifically to allow religious discrimination.
Based on the SCOTUS decision and other Federal rulings the Biden Administration reinstated the definitions from the original ACA
"mandate" preventing doctors and institutional discrimination for their routine medical based on all sexual reasons.
No where in any legislation at the Federal or State levels is there a mandate for doctors to perform abortions,
lobotomies or sex change procedures against their will or religious beliefs or to violate the Hypocritical Oath..
It's just a reactionary fantasy by Faithwire and other zealots.
There are only 1 million doctors in the USA, about 82% of them specialize in something.
Just 25 doctors in the USA practice the kind of plastic surgery that is known as sexual reassignment.
( references available )
Literally no one else is qualified, nor could they ever be compelled by any government "mandate".
Nor would any sane patient deal with anyone other than those 25 and it isn't cheap.
This is the second time the same Texas Judge struck down similar "mandates" and even in his decision
goes on and on about doctors being forced to perform reassignments against their will.
This too will be challenged and overturned by SCOTUS.
It's just another conservative law trying to solve a problem that does not exist.
They could not force Christian bakers to bake cakes for them but think they can force Christian doctors to cut their balls off and give them fake tits?
That is comedy gold right there.
Relgious liberty will stand.. But, They say this is not a Christian country ? LOL