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Draft Regulations Place Medical Conscience & Religious Freedom at Risk
Medical professionals and institutions have worked tirelessly, safe in the realization that their conscience and religious freedom rights are protected under regulations put in place by the prior presidential administration in 2020. These final regulations affirmed...
New WHO Guidelines Threaten Medical Conscience
The latest changes from the World Health Organization (WHO) to their Abortion Care Guideline should not go unnoticed by those concerned for conscience protection. The WHO is leveraging its weight to proport abortion as a human right. Going one step further, the...
Conscience Protects Doctor-Patient Relationship
The threat to a patient or doctor's conscience is a stark reality in today's society. Not only are conscience protections critical for a robust health care workforce, but it is also critical in that conscience protects the doctor-patient relationship for health care....
How Your Medical Access is At Stake
A memo about rescinding religious freedom and medical conscience protections in healthcare was recently written to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary, Xavier Beccera. The memo raised concerns about long-held medical conscience and religious freedom...
Top 4 Principles for Conscience Protection
In his famous writing “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. quoted John Bunyan saying, “I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.” Dr. King’s statement shows us the importance of...
Conscience Protection vital for Robust Health Care Workforce
“When I grow up, I want to be a doctor!” How many of us said those words when we were younger? Young children often play doctor or nurse, not because of a drive for prestige or praise, but out of their capacity to love. Those young dreamers all shared the wish to...
The Need for Medical Conscience Protections
What are Medical Conscience Protections? Broad medical conscience protections in law and policy protect medical professionals, patients, health care payers, and health care institutions from discrimination, punishment, or retaliation due to their moral, ethical, or...
Hellwege v. Tampa Family Health Centers
Sara Hellwege filed suit under the Church Amendment and Title VII upon facing discrimination for her pro-life beliefs. Shortly after graduation from her nursing program, Hellwege began applying for jobs as a nurse-midwife. Upon submitting her application to Tampa...
The Case of Megan Kreft
Excited and hopeful to start her first job as a newly licensed medical professional, physician assistant Megan Kreft was hired by a health system in Sherwood, Oregon. As a Catholic-Christian student, Kreft had planned to avoid working in both primary care and women’s...
Franciscan Alliance, Incorporated
A Catholic non-profit hospital system based in Indiana, founded by the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration, faced a federal mandate that it must perform gender reassignment surgeries or risk losing millions in federal funding. Thankfully, in 2021, this...
The Case of St. Joseph Medical Center
In 2020, a Catholic hospital in Maryland was sued in federal court over its refusal to perform a hysterectomy for the purposes of treating gender dysphoria. University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center faced a lawsuit over its refusal to perform a hysterectomy on...
Why is the Religious Freedom & Health Care Campaign Important?
I’m not a medical professional? How does this affect me? A day does not go by without a new health care-related case being in the news. From the outside looking in, it would seem that the current attacks on medical conscience are far removed from the average person...