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The Trump Administration is gearing up to propose a new rule that would allow hospitals, doctors, and nurses to determine a patient’s care based on their religious beliefs, not based on what is best for the patient. If this new rule is as bad as what is being reported, it will propose that health care workers be able to refuse to provide any health care service to which they assert a moral objection. This would be illegal, discriminatory, and put patients’ lives and health in danger.
We’ve seen this type of discrimination before, and we know what happens to women and LGBTQ+ people when health care workers refuse to provide patients the care they need.
The Trump Administration has made it clear that it will continue to prioritize religious beliefs over patient access to care, regardless of the consequences.
This proposed rule follows a series of actions the Trump Administration has already taken to allow religion to determine patient care. This new proposed rule would be yet another attempt to allow religion to be used to discriminate. But we won’t let that happen.
The National Women’s Law Center is prepared to take whatever action is necessary to ensure patients can get the care they need. Because a provider’s religious beliefs should never determine the care a patient receives.