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?
It’s all about power and control. Few things make give secular progressives and their pro abort/ pro LGBTQ allies more pleasure than having the power to compel evangelical Christians to violate their deeply held religious beliefs or be cancelled of their jobs and livelihood. That and censoring the expression of our beliefs in the public domain.
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.
Not to mention that the Santa was not affected by government controlling his behaviors/actions…
The parents? How many young boys don’t have the desire to own a gun? Most parents who have guns go to great care to teach their children responsible gun use and safety. But all this has nothing to do with the issue of the federal government trying to coerce Christian hospitals and doctors into doing medical procedures that violate their religious beliefs.
And Biden tried to eliminate existing conscience clause protecting nurses, doctors, and hospitals from having to perform abortions against their religious beliefs.
The clause is meaningless. No one goes to a religious hospital for an abortion.
It’s not meaningless for doctors and nurses that don’t. And yes people have indeed showed up at church operated hospitals seeking abortions.
And what happens? They say no and refer them to PP or a clinic that CAN help them.
And the same applies to those seeking tranny procedures.
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.
The headline is exactly right. The ruling protects hospitals and doctors from being compelled to perform acts related to that that are short of the specific things those 25 can do. There is no way the current Supreme Court is going to overrule exemptions based on conscience clauses that provide religious liberty to believers and their medical institutions.
That was clearly in the judges decision but not in the "mandate" which only seeks to prevent discrimination.
Probability is that it will be overturned, again.
The court is not going to consider people acting on people’s long held religious beliefs to be discrimination. The Obama/ Biden overturned prior conscience clauses regarding religious belief and that overturning is what the court has overturned. The Supreme Court has long recognized the constitutionality of conscience clause exemptions.
SCOTUS also just cemented in law that people with sexual orientation issues cannot be discriminated against by employers.
The language of the ACA is that they cannot be denied services for sexual orientation issues. Nothing about forcing
christians, jews or hindus et al to perform surgeries that clash with their religious prejudices.
This will be appealed and based on the Federal judges own language in his decision
SCOTUS will either give him a chance to rescind or overturn his judgement based on it's lack of objectivity
and not addressing the actual law.
Just because person A has a right to a certain thing doesn’t mean that they can then compel person or institution B to provide it when they have a multitude of others willing and ready to meet it who don’t have said religious objections.
The conscience clauses pre existed Obamacare and the court merely reinstated them saying that the regime could not override them with the act.
Exactly. Glad you understand. Could not have said it better myself.
That kind of undermines the whole premise of anyone being forced to provide surgery against their will.
The issue was not surgery alone. Religious hospitals and Christian doctors can not be compelled to perform any act regarding the transition process. This would include seeing such clients and prescribing puberty blockers. Also, two members of the court who illegitimately ruled a few years ago on homosexual marriages have been replaced by members who are certain to provide religious exemption conscience clauses and likely extend them to bakers, florists, etc.
That is all true and why there are only 25 certified people who do this.
The other 999,975 doctors have no interest or cannot afford the liability insurance.
Aside from your own prejudicial remarks,
precedent & objectivity will be very difficult to overrule and will be challenged by lots of legal scholars who
care more about the Constitution, the law and the future of this country,
more than their own private religious beliefs.
Note, they are not allowed to decline an emergency appendectomy based on sexual status
nor can they refuse to supply drugs subscribed by other doctors.
That was illegal.
The court doesn’t have to reverse that evil decision in order to provide for conscience clauses for believers to not participate in said decision. There is no compelling state interest in coercing believers to do or provide something against their beliefs when there are plenty of others wiling and able to do so. The court can both leave their ruling up and provide the conscience clauses just as what happened after abortion was made legal and religious people and hospitals don’t have to do.
Abortions except to save the life of the mother and sex change procedures are not emergency situations.
exactly.
so the whole scenario about "religious" people will be forced to participate is a whole cloth fabrication.
Thanks for playing.
nobody wants a quack thumper pervert paying with their junk while they're anesthetized anyway...
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
They are still trying to coerce and enslave bakers, florists, photographers, stenographers and others to create expressions in violation of their religious beliefs because they can.
If they can't force a baker to bake they are just kicking a long dead horse.
The ACA provision was to prevent discrimination by anyone based on sex, period.
Say a trans person gets hit by a car and needs surgery -
the hospital cannot discontinue Contra-Hormone therapy based on religious reasons while the patient is recovering.
It's a simple concept bastardized by the typical catastrophizing what if scenarios.
The judge bought into that and it will be overturned on the basis of what the law says,
not Faithwire. Even The Catholic Times recognizes that.
These are highly elective, non life threatening surgeries that specialists decline all the time
while referring patients to the 25 plastic surgeons and parenthood clinics that can help the people in question.