{"id":29260,"date":"2026-05-31T12:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T12:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=29260"},"modified":"2026-05-31T12:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T12:22:07","slug":"key-health-agency-protects-conscience-rights-combats-anti-christian-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=29260","title":{"rendered":"Key Health Agency Protects Conscience Rights, Combats Anti-Christian Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The federal agency devoted to health care has reorganized its civil rights office to restore key conscience protections and reverse the\u00a0alleged anti-Christian bias\u00a0under former President Joe Biden.\n<\/p>\n

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\u201cFaith-filled Americans should not be forced to choose between their profession and their conscience, and faith-based organizations should be able to operate on the same level as secular institutions,\u201d a senior official at the\u00a0Department of Health and Human Services\u00a0told reporters in a press briefing on Thursday.\n<\/p>\n

The department, which accounts for roughly a quarter of federal spending and manages programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, reorganized its Office for Civil Rights earlier this month. The office now consists of three divisions: the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division; the Civil Rights Division; and the Health Information, Privacy, Data, and Cybersecurity Division.\n<\/p>\n

The conscience division protects health professionals and religious organizations who morally oppose practices such as abortion and controversial experimental transgender medical procedures. While the agency first established the conscience division under President Donald Trump\u2019s first term, the Biden administration dissolved that division in 2023.\n<\/p>\n

Conscience Division Founder Weighs In<\/h2>\n

Roger Severino, vice president of economic and domestic policy at The Heritage Foundation, founded the conscience division in Trump\u2019s first term.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cBiden tried his best to erase President Trump\u2019s legacy on conscience rights but the relaunch of the division means they are fully back in business,\u201d Severino\u00a0told the Daily Signal\u00a0in a statement Thursday.\n<\/p>\n

He emphasized that the conscience division\u2019s last major action in Trump\u2019s first term involved revoking $200 million in Medicaid\u00a0funding from California\u00a0after the Golden State required an order of nuns to provide abortion coverage. He urged the newly reestablished division to reinstate that ruling.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter enduring four years of Biden and [California Gov.] Gavin Newsom hounding and persecuting nuns for standing for life in the womb, there is a backlog of victims that once again have a place to turn to have their rights vindicated,\u201d Severino said.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it comes to abortion, assisted suicide, or sterilizing gender-confused kids, no doctor or nurse should have to choose between a career and moral convictions against doing harm,\u201d he added.\n<\/p>\n

Anti-Christian Bias<\/h2>\n

The senior HHS official emphasized a few policy moves mentioned in the Justice Department report on\u00a0anti-Christian bias\u00a0in the Biden administration.\n<\/p>\n

Under Biden, the HHS Office for Civil Rights dropped an enforcement effort against the\u00a0University of Vermont\u00a0Medical Center, which had allegedly forced a nurse to assist in an abortion despite her religious objections.\u00a0HHS Regulators had also demanded\u00a0that a Catholic hospital snuff out a chapel candle or lose its ability to receive Medicare and Medicaid funding.\n<\/p>\n

The department also ran an employee survey, finding that staff reported hostile or derogatory comments mocking Christian beliefs as silly, unenlightened, or not compatible with a pro-science mentality, the HHS official told reporters.\n<\/p>\n

The senior HHS official lamented that \u201cpeople of faith often feel intimidated from entering the medical profession or remaining in it.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Under Biden, the Office for Civil Rights reinterpreted civil rights laws, claiming that statutes forbidding discrimination on the basis of sex applied to sexual orientation and gender identity, effectively requiring transgender ideology in the medical industry. HHS under Trump has reversed these policies, rescinding guidance supporting \u201cgender-affirming care,\u201d and publishing a peer-reviewed analysis finding \u201cextremely weak evidence\u201d that\u00a0experimental transgender medical interventions\u00a0have any positive effect for minors.\n<\/p>\n

Under Trump, the Office for Civil Rights advised medical providers to avoid the racial discrimination advocated by the so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion movement. The office is currently investigating some medical providers for using race as a factor in hiring and promotion.\n<\/p>\n

The office has also discouraged health care providers from denying parents\u2019 access to their minor children\u2019s medical records.\n<\/p>\n

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This article was originally published at The Daily Signal. Photo Credit: Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian.<\/em>
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