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Doctors’ Religious Rights Under Attack

by Devon Williams, associate editor

Abortion advocates target federal guidelines protecting pro-life medical workers.

Abortion activists have launched a campaign to sabotage regulations being drafted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to enforce laws that protect the moral and religious rights of pro-life medical workers.

The proposed regulations pertain to health care providers who refuse, as allowed under federal law, to perform or refer for abortions or prescribe drugs that may cause an abortion. The HHS guidelines would provide additional protection by proscribing that any recipient of federal aid, including hospitals, research clinics and medical schools, that restricts a medical worker’s right of conscience could lose federal funding.

Pro-abortion groups are outraged.

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