{"id":7566,"date":"2017-05-04T18:44:54","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T01:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7566"},"modified":"2018-03-05T18:23:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T02:23:39","slug":"linking-healthcare-access-to-conscience-freedoms-christian-medical-association-hails-presidential-executive-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7566","title":{"rendered":"Linking Healthcare Access to Conscience Freedoms, Christian Medical Association Hails Presidential Executive Order"},"content":{"rendered":"

News Release<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Christian Medical Association<\/a><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON,\u00a0May 4, 2017 \/Standard Newswire<\/a>\/ — Citing the link between patient access to healthcare and conscience freedom for health professionals, the 18,000-member Christian Medical Association (CMA, www.cmda.org<\/a>) today expressed gratitude for President Trump’s executive order that begins to provide stronger protections against discrimination against individuals and organizations of faith.<\/p>\n

“Protecting religious freedom means protecting the millions of individuals served by organizations and professionals who are motivated and guided by the tenets of their faith,” explained Dr. David Stevens, CEO of the 85-year-old nonpartisan organization of Christian doctors and students. “The faith that compels so many health professionals to minister to patients in underserved areas and populations is the same faith that compels us to practice according to moral and ethical guidelines. Conscience freedoms are the foundation of our service.<\/p>\n

“When the government refuses to accommodate those faith principles, or–as we experienced in the previous administration’s contraceptives and transgender mandates–attempts to coerce people of faith to violate those principles, those who suffer include the poor, the marginalized and the vulnerable.”<\/p>\n

Represented by Becket Law, the Christian Medical Association recently successfully challenged the Obama administration’s transgender mandate<\/a>. Represented by Americans United for Life<\/a>, CMA filed an amicus brief in the contraceptives mandate Supreme Court case, Zubik v. Burwell.<\/p>\n

CMA also worked to help establish the nation’s first health professionals’ conscience protection rule<\/a>, promulgated in 2008 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Obama administration subsequently gutted the conscience rule<\/a> and also attempted to force<\/a> faith-based organizations to participate in morally objectionable contraceptives such as Plan B and the morning-after pill.<\/p>\n

“We are grateful for this executive order that begins to turn the tide back toward freedom of faith and speech, including political speech. Americans do not give up their First Amendment protections when they speak from the pulpit, counsel their patients or minister in a faith-based outreach to help the poor,” Dr. Stevens observed. “Threatening the First Amendment freedoms of any one group threatens the First Amendment freedoms of all of us, and protecting those freedoms protects us all.”<\/p>\n

Contact:<\/strong> Margie Shealy, Christian Medical Association<\/a>,\u00a0888-230-2637, 423-341-4254 mobile, margie.shealy@cmda.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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