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Justice Department sues Vermont medical centre over abortion by Wilson Ring, The Associated Press Posted Dec 16, 2020 6:07 pm EDT Last Updated Dec 16, 2020 at 6:14 pm EDT The U.S. Justice Department filed a civil lawsuit Wednesday against the University of Vermont Medical Center alleging it forces staff members who object to abortion on religious grounds to participate in abortion procedures. The Vermont lawsuit alleges the Burlington hospital violated the Church Amendment, which prevents hospitals from discriminating against health care workers who refuse to perform or assist with abortions. “No institution or person should force any health care provider to perform an abortion if doing so would violate the provider’s religious beliefs or moral convictions,” Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband, of the Civil Rights Division, said in a statement announcing the lawsuit. “This kind of indecent coercion violates everything this country stands for.� ....
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Joins us now the executive director of aclj and author of forthcoming book the next red wave. jordan, give us background on what s going on here. so in 2017, the university of vermont medical center divided to start performing elective abortions. so not just abortions that would save the life of the mother but abortions just for abortion sake, elective abortions as we call them. interestingly enough, that policy change happened, surprise, surprise, when a new chairman of the board of trustees come in. guess who that chairman was? the former ceo of planned parenthood new england. so someone who definitely had. anna: must to pro-life nurses, medical professionals, even doctors. so, in 2017, this nurse who made it clear she had an objection, a conscious objection, which is protected by federal law since 1973, the church amendment is actually named after a former senator, ....
Giving them executive order. it has full force and effect of law. you are right. executive order that we had signed, they probably never read it. greta: all right. the easy fix might be that is road to include catholic hospitals and not just churches, that would this easy way they could fix this one? that would be an easier way to fix it. you could rely on the executive order and authority to fix it. executive order, longstanding law to protect things such as the church amendment, weldon amendment and prohibits discrimination against health care facilities and providers because of unwillingness to provide coverage of or refer to abortion. greta: thanks for joining us. thank you. greta: i it wasn t add one thing. we have e-mails that governor romney vetoed the morning-after ....