Commentary
Freedom of religion is fundamental to the American concept of ordered liberty. But President Joe Biden doesn’t seem to care. If news reports are right, his administration intends to force doctors and nurses to participate in abortions—even when it violates their religious beliefs. It plans to force Catholic hospitals to violate Church teachings by requiring them to provide sterilization and gender transition procedures, even on children.
In short, the Biden administration will coerce health care workers and institutions to adopt the values of secular woke culture in their professional lives.
How? According to Politico and other news sources, the Department of Health and Human Services will soon promulgate regulations obliterating the medical conscience protections put into place during the Trump administration, designed to protect doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and hospitals against being punished for refusing to participate in medical procedures that violate their moral or religious beliefs.
The Trump approach made eminent sense. Today’s society is morally polyglot—and growing more so—with resulting controversies roiling health care as they have other sectors of society. In such a milieu, comity is the essential ingredient to maintaining societal cohesion. Medical conscience furthers this end by allowing patients to obtain legal, morally contentious procedures from willing professionals—while also permitting dissenting medical professionals to stay true to their own beliefs and continue to serve patients and society.
The Trump medical conscience rule was already stricken by a court, and the Biden administration indicated to the Court of Appeals that it would not defend it. But the absence of explicit conscience protections apparently isn’t enough for the cultural imperialists who now control the executive branch. They and their culture warrior allies, like Planned Parenthood, see the government’s substantial control of health care granted by the Affordable Care Act, Medicare, Medicaid, and other such programs, as their vehicle to push through woke social change that they might not be able to achieve through democratic means.
That’s hardly democratic. Moreover—as with many other Biden policies—eviscerating medical conscience would not only be explosively contentious, but profoundly unwise:
Nor would the coercion necessarily stop with abortion and transgender transitions. The areas of moral contention in medicine will only intensify in coming years. As just a few examples: Some bioethicists are lobbying for laws that would give dementia patients the right to sign advance directives instructing nursing homes to withhold sustenance once they reach a specified level of cognitive decline. If these acts become legal—and if there’s no right to say no because medical conscience has been obliterated—doctors and nurses who practice in this field could be forced to participate in the starving of their own patients.
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