President-elect Donald Trump can undo many of President Obama’s executive orders with the stroke of a pen, but rolling back a key new mandate forcing religious doctors and hospitals to perform abortions and transgender surgeries looks to be a much more protracted legal battle.
Many judges have begun to adopt the administration’s expansive interpretation of Title IX and other federal directives barring discrimination on the basis of “sex,” lawyers say, limiting the ability of the president-elect to revoke his predecessor’s policies without help from Congress or the courts.
Now the Department of Health and Human Services has taken Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, which prohibits “sex” discrimination in the provision of health care, to mean that hospitals, insurance companies and other health care entities that receive federal funding must cover or perform abortions and sex-reassignment surgeries, even if doing so would violate their religious beliefs.
The rule was finalized in May and was to go into effect on Sunday.
But the legal battle escalated over the weekend when a federal judge in Texas on Saturday blocked the Obama administration mandate one day before it was set to go into effect.
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Transgender surgeries should be Illegal All 50 states
ReplyDeleteThis country is going to Hell , people think that Anything
Goes these days........
Esp for kids , these surgeries should be Illegal ...Get Real
They can still be Gay , but don't Butcher them ,that goes too Far .... One's Body Is What it Is .........
GOOD JOB Judge !!
ReplyDeleteRecently had a terrible experience related to this. An elderly family member was at Hospice and her heart surgeon refused to disable her pacemaker because he "didn't want to play God." What? If disabling it is playing God, isn't putting it in doing the same thing? I think he might not have wanted to be bothered on a holiday weekend, but it reminds me that the consequences of some of this can impact us in ways we never anticipated.
ReplyDeleteSerogatcy should be Illegal tooo.....Not right !!
ReplyDeleteAltering babys for eye color etc wrong too .......
12:30 is right, 100%
ReplyDeleteYet you idiots set high viewing records to watch a girl add a third breast via surgery. Typical hypocritical double-talk
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
ReplyDeleteTransgender surgeries should be Illegal All 50 states
This country is going to Hell , people think that Anything
Goes these days........
Esp for kids , these surgeries should be Illegal ...Get Real
They can still be Gay , but don't Butcher them ,that goes too Far .... One's Body Is What it Is .........
January 2, 2017 at 12:30 PM
Agreed!