ROME. The United States Conference of Bishops (USCCB) warned this week that the new HHS rules mandating harmful surgical procedures are “a violation of religious freedom and bad medicine.”
This week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released proposed changes to its rules that “force health care providers to perform gender reassignment procedures, require insurance companies to seize them, and force them to perform optional abortions.” The bishops are voicing their concerns on the USCCB website.
“Unfortunately, Monday’s proposed regulations threaten our healing ministries and others’ ability to practice medicine,” said the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, in a joint statement released by Baltimore Archbishop William Laurie, Head of Bishops. Living Activities Committee. Paul Coakley, Chairman of the Committee on Internal Justice and Human Development, Archbishop of San Francisco Salvatore Cordileone, Chairman of the Committee on Lay Affairs, Marriage, Family Life, and Youth, and Cardinal of New York Timothy Dolan, Chairman of the Committee on Religious Freedom.
The bishops complained that the new rules “require medical professionals to perform life-saving operations to remove completely healthy body parts.” “Assurances that HHS will follow religious freedom laws are not very comfortable as we actively fight court rulings that say HHS violated religious freedom laws the last time they tried to enforce such an order.”
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“This is a violation of freedom of religion and bad medicine,” they added.
“The proposed guidelines state that HHS is also considering forcing healthcare workers to have abortions against their will or losing their jobs. We urge HHS to expressly renounce any such intent,” they wrote.
In their statement, the bishops noted that Catholics have been called upon to care for the sick since the early days of the Christian faith and are now “equivalent” when the various institutions and social services of the Catholic Church are put together. largest non-profit healthcare system.” provider in the country.
The bishops also stressed that the Catholic Church does not discriminate against anyone in the delivery of health care, and that Catholic health ministries “serve everyone, regardless of race, gender, belief system or other qualifications.”
“In the Catholic hospital, all patients, including those who identify as trans, whether they have a bone fracture or cancer, will be treated with the same care, but we cannot do what our faith forbids,” they added. against it. not to patients, but to harmful procedures.
Source: Breitbart
