Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar speaks at a White House event, Life is Winning: Celebrating 4 Years of Pro-Life Accomplishments, Dec. 16, 2020. | Screenshot: YouTube/The White House
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced that his department was taking action against California and a hospital in Vermont that implemented policies violating the conscience rights of those opposed to abortion.
Azar was among many notable speakers at a White House event, called “Life is Winning: Celebrating 4 Years of Pro-Life Accomplishments,” hosted by Vice President Mike Pence Wednesday. During his speech, Azar highlighted how the Trump administration was “protecting conscience rights more aggressively than any previous administration in history.”
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DOJ Sues University of Vermont for Violating Pro-life Conscience RightsBy Francis J. Manion16082246452951608224645295
It’s been nearly three years since a nurse in Vermont first contacted the ACLJ with what was the most blatant and horrifying account of a conscience rights’ violation we had ever heard. As we told you, our client, a surgical nurse with over ten years’ experience, worked at the University of Vermont Medical Center (UVMMC) in Burlington, Vermont. When she was originally hired, her hospital rarely, if ever, did abortions. Even so, our client and a number of other pro-life nurses made it clear that they objected to participating in any abortions on religious grounds. The surgical unit even maintained a list of objectors and – for the most part, although at times begrudgingly – honored their objections.
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The United States Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights (OCR) delivered religious freedom and pro-life wins in three cases announced on Wednesday.
“Regardless of who sits in my chair as Director of the Office for Civil Rights, conscience and religious freedom should no longer be a point of debate. It is not a partisan football. It is a fundamental human right that needs to be respected. And that is what is being communicated by these actions taken today,” OCR Director Roger Severino said.
In the first case, the OCR announced that it secured access for religious clergy in New York’s Mt. Sinai Health System, even during the COVID-19 pandemic.