{"id":8425,"date":"2018-04-12T18:20:51","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T01:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=8425"},"modified":"2023-01-22T15:18:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T23:18:06","slug":"divisions-new-and-old-conscience-and-religious-freedom-at-hhs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=8425","title":{"rendered":"Divisions, New and Old \u2014 Conscience and Religious Freedom at HHS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lisa H. Harris<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"190\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/nejm.jpg\" alt=\"New England Journal of Medicine, NEJM\" class=\"wp-image-11214\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">New England Journal of Medicine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Extract<\/strong><br>January, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the creation of its Conscience and Religious Freedom Division, explaining that it will allow HHS\u2019s Office of Civil Rights to &#8220;more vigorously and effectively enforce existing laws protecting the rights of conscience and religious freedom&#8221; and will ensure that &#8220;no one is coerced into participating in activities that would violate their consciences, such as abortion, sterilization or assisted suicide.&#8221;<sup><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMp1801154?query=TOC#\" data-behavior=\"ShowPopupTip\" data-popup-content-ids=\"ref1\">1<\/a><\/sup> Responses were as expected: religious conservatives hailed the new division as a needed intervention; public health and clinical leaders and advocates decried it, worrying about its impact on access to care and harm to patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HHS leaders\u2019 comments to date suggest that they are uninterested in discrimination against health care providers whose consciences compel them to <i>provide<\/i> care, and uninterested in injuries to patients caused by care refusals. This framing makes conscience yet another issue dividing Americans, largely along partisan lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Harris LH.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/10.1056\/NEJMp1801154?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&amp;rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&amp;rfr_dat=cr_pub%3Dwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;\">Divisions, New and Old \u2014 Conscience and Religious Freedom at HHS<\/a>. N Eng J Med 2018 Apr 12;378(15):1369-1371. doi: 10.1056\/NEJMp1801154. Epub 2018 Mar 14<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa H. 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