{"id":10935,"date":"2021-09-01T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T20:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10935"},"modified":"2022-01-30T13:48:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T21:48:03","slug":"hhs-denies-conscience-freedom-for-physicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10935","title":{"rendered":"HHS Denies Conscience Freedom for Physicians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>National Review<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"matt-bowman\">Matt Bowman<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve all read about how President Biden recently ordered his Health and Human Services Department to issue a national eviction-moratorium mandate,\u202feven though\u202f\u201cthe bulk of the constitutional scholarship says that it\u2019s not likely to pass constitutional muster.\u201d And indeed, the Supreme Court has just\u202fstruck it down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What can you do when the president brazenly admits that he is trampling on constitutionally protected freedoms?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the eviction moratorium is not the only mandate from this president that far exceeds his authority. It\u2019s not even the only illegal mandate from President Biden\u2019s HHS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On August 26, two organizations of medical doctors and an obstetrician\/gynecologist filed a\u202flawsuit\u202fin federal court over a mandate from President Biden and HHS that will force doctors to perform gender-transition procedures, even on children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The administration\u2019s excuse for this mandate is Obamacare, but that 1,000-page statute . . . simply prohibits sex discrimination, as Congress understood that term when it enacted civil-rights laws half a century ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet on January 20, President Biden ordered his federal agencies to go far beyond the law and reinterpret sex discrimination to include \u201cgender identity\u201d discrimination. . . . <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2021\/09\/hhs-denies-conscience-freedom-for-physicians\/\">continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Review Matt Bowman We\u2019ve all read about how President Biden recently ordered his Health and Human Services Department to issue a national eviction-moratorium mandate,\u202feven though\u202f\u201cthe bulk of the constitutional scholarship says that it\u2019s not likely to pass constitutional muster.\u201d And indeed, the Supreme Court has just\u202fstruck it down. 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