{"id":178056,"date":"2018-01-18T15:27:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T20:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=178056"},"modified":"2018-01-18T15:33:58","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T20:33:58","slug":"trump-hhs-plan-conscience-rights-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/trump-hhs-plan-conscience-rights-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s HHS announces plan to protect conscience rights of health care workers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Not long after rolling back the Obama-era HHS contraceptive mandate<\/a> (which is now left to the courts<\/a>), the Trump administration has announced a plan to reshape the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights in order to provide health workers with greater religious and moral conscience protections. A newly proposed rule would create the\u00a0Division on Conscience and Religious Freedom within the Office of Civil Rights.\u00a0According to Politico<\/a>, this is possibly “part of a broader plan to protect health workers who don’t want to perform abortions<\/a>, treat transgender patients seeking to transition or provide other services for which they have religious or moral objections.”<\/p>\n

Once you see what abortion does to a living, preborn human child, it is not difficult to understand why many would decline to participate in such an act. The video below, narrated by former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levatino, describes a D&E abortion, typically committed between 13 and 24 weeks of pregnancy:<\/p>\n