HHS

Texas judge blocks HHS enforcement of emergency room abortions, cites religious objections

By Adelle M. Banks — August 24, 2022
(RNS) — The judge said the guidance’s lack of exceptions for health care providers ‘with genuinely held religious objections to abortions’ may run afoul of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

Trump’s new HHS rule will harm far more people than you realize

By Maggie Siddiqi — November 14, 2019
(RNS) — This proposed rule allows this discrimination at a much larger scale. It invites discrimination against people of all faiths and no faith, against women and against LGBTQ people.

White House expands birth control exemptions for employers with religious objections

By Adelle M. Banks — November 7, 2018
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The mother provincial of Little Sisters of the Poor, one of the religious groups that has opposed the mandate, welcomed the administration’s new regulations.

HHS Civil Rights Office to protect freedom of conscience

By Thomas Reese — January 19, 2018
When HHS does get around to writing its rules, it would do well to listen to the Catholic Health Association in developing rules that protect individual consciences but do not discriminate.

Evangelical Wheaton College joins suits against Obama contraception mandate

By David Gibson — July 18, 2012

(RNS) Wheaton College, Billy Graham's alma mater and a leading Christian university, has joined a lawsuit against the Obama administration's birth control health insurance mandate. By David Gibson.

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