{"id":10452,"date":"2021-01-25T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10452"},"modified":"2021-02-05T17:22:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T01:22:44","slug":"federal-court-upholds-conscience-protections-for-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10452","title":{"rendered":"Federal Court Upholds Conscience Protections for Doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Daily Signal<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nicole Russell<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Amid a flurry of activity and controversy with the incoming Biden administration, there was still a major victory for religious freedom and conscience protection last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Jan. 19, a federal court, citing the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, upheld conscience protections for physicians and struck down the transgender mandate that ordered doctors to perform transgender interventions when doing so violated the provider\u2019s sincerely held religious beliefs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The case, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.becketlaw.org\/case\/sisters-mercy-v-price\/https:\/www.becketlaw.org\/case\/sisters-mercy-v-price\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sisters of Mercy v. Azar<\/a>, is hardly well-known, but no less newsworthy. The plaintiffs are an order of Catholic nuns, a Catholic university, and Catholic health care organizations. They sued the government, challenging Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, which forced doctors to perform transgender interventions against their sincerely held religious beliefs or even sound, medical advice. . . [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2021\/01\/25\/federal-court-upholds-conscience-protections-for-doctors\/\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Signal Nicole Russell Amid a flurry of activity and controversy with the incoming Biden administration, there was still a major victory for religious freedom and conscience protection last week. 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